LOUISVILLE. Ky. (WDRB) -- Two nights after the sirens, the stillness hit harder.

Lumen Field was empty Tuesday, the crowd noise replaced by the sounds of footfalls on the turf and voices from the sidelines. Racing Louisville came back to finish a match that never really felt like a match, not after what happened to Savannah DeMelo on Sunday. They taped purple bands to their wrists — SD7 scrawled in black — and did the most ordinary, most difficult thing professionals do. They played.

Seattle won it late, 1–0, on a clinical Jess Fishlock finish, its first win since August 1. That belongs in the box score. The night belongs to DeMelo. And to the players who packed away their emotions from that event as best they could.

It was tougher for many of them than most will know.

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