Lianne Sanderson’s three-assist performance against the Washington Spirit was good enough for the Breakers midfielder to earn NWSL Player of the Week honors\u00a0for week 7.<\/p>\n
Sanderson assisted on goals from Heather O’Reilley (38′), Katie Schoepfer (53′)\u00a0and Kyah Simon (66′) in the Breaker’s 3-0 win over the Spirit last Saturday at Dilboy Stadium.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a great honor to be named player of the week,” Sanderson said in a team release. “I just want to thank all the staff at the Breakers and\u00a0Lisa Cole\u00a0<\/strong>for having the confidence in me and what I can bring to the team. As long as we keep winning, that is the main thing.”<\/p>\n The Lewisham, England native leads the NWSL with six assists through six games, and registered the first three-assist performance in the league’s brief history.<\/p>\n “She\u2019s very savvy on the ball, but her runs forward are just really threatening,” O\u2019Reilly said following Saturday’s win. “She hasn\u2019t scored yet this season, but I think everybody has seen how dangerous she is, and she\u2019s setting everyone up with incredible goals. She\u2019s smart. She knows the game.”<\/p>\n Sanderson is the third Breakers player to earn Player of the Week honors this season. O’Reilly (Week 3) and Simon (Week 4) have also heard their names called for the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lianne Sanderson’s three-assist performance against the Washington Spirit was good enough for the Breakers midfielder to earn NWSL Player of the Week honors\u00a0for week 7. Sanderson assisted on goals from Heather O’Reilley (38′), Katie Schoepfer (53′)\u00a0and Kyah Simon (66′) in the Breaker’s 3-0 win over the Spirit last Saturday at Dilboy Stadium. “It\u2019s a great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19578,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19576\/revisions\/19578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}