{"id":349739,"date":"2025-11-02T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349739\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:22:18","slug":"charlie-dennis-spot-kick-sends-phoenix-rising-past-locomotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349739\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Dennis\u2019 spot kick sends Phoenix Rising past Locomotive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>El Paso Locomotive FC:<\/strong> The hosts underwhelmed in their first home playoff game since 2021, recording only four shots in the game as what had been a strong improvement on the 2024 season came to an end came to an end in disappointing fashion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phoenix Rising FC:<\/strong> After recording three consecutive shutouts to end the regular season, Rising maintained its impressive defensive form to take a victory they were good value for in the end, with Charlie Dennis providing the key moment from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key moment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phoenix\u2019s Charlie Dennis delivered a precise finish from the penalty spot to the bottom-right corner in the 86th minute to lift the visitors to victory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key stat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rising allowed only 0.16 Expected Goals Against, its second-lowest mark of the season defensively, while also matching its season low in shots faced with four.<\/p>\n<p><strong>USLChampionship.com Player of the Match<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charlie Dennis, Phoenix Rising FC \u2013 The English playmaker scored the only goal from the spot and had three shots and three chances created overall while completing 21 of 31 passes and winning 7 of 11 ground duels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring Summary<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPHX \u2013 <\/strong>Charlie Dennis (penalty kick) 86\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Takeaways El Paso Locomotive FC: The hosts underwhelmed in their first home playoff game since 2021, recording only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-349739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115478668484996424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349739","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=349739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}