{"id":298876,"date":"2025-10-13T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298876\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:15:12","slug":"nwsl-angel-city-defeats-2-0-houston-to-stave-off-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298876\/","title":{"rendered":"NWSL: Angel City defeats 2-0 Houston to stave off elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kennedy Fuller and Maiara Niehues scored and Angel City staved off elimination from postseason contention with a 2-0 victory over the Houston Dash on Sunday at BMO Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Angel City (7-11-6), which would have been eliminated with a loss or a draw, ended a five-game winless streak with the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Dash goalkeeper Abby Smith pushed away a cross from Hina Sugita, but Fuller scored her fourth goal of the season off a rebound in the 53rd minute to break a scoreless stalemate.<\/p>\n<p>Niehues scored an insurance goal in the 86th minute, charging forward and taking advantage with Smith well out of her goal.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared the Dash might be awarded a penalty after a handball was called on the field in stoppage time, but the decision was overturned after video review.<\/p>\n<p>Houston (7-10-6), which finished last in the league last season, had lost just two of the previous 10 matches. The Dash were not yet eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Because of Sunday\u2019s result, the Orlando Pride clinched a playoff berth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kennedy Fuller and Maiara Niehues scored and Angel City staved off elimination from postseason contention with a 2-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":298877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[152233,58081,152231,82719,152227,152228,4345,5467,152232,152226,152230,138070,24566,152229,1404,358,3187,3355],"class_list":{"0":"post-298876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-53rd-minute","9":"tag-angel-city","10":"tag-dash-goalkeeper-abby-smith","11":"tag-elimination","12":"tag-fourth-goal","13":"tag-hina-sugita","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-dash","16":"tag-insurance-goal","17":"tag-kennedy-fuller","18":"tag-niehue","19":"tag-postseason-contention","20":"tag-rebound","21":"tag-scoreless-stalemate","22":"tag-sunday","23":"tag-texas","24":"tag-tx","25":"tag-victory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115364687172522716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}