{"id":352075,"date":"2025-11-03T07:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352075\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:08:23","slug":"san-diego-waves-season-ends-with-2-1-loss-to-kansas-city-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/352075\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Wave&#8217;s season ends with 2-1 loss to Kansas City Current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Wave-NWSL-Decision-Day.jpeg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Wave-NWSL-Decision-Day.jpeg\" alt=\"Soccer action\" class=\"wp-image-353585\"  \/><\/a>Action on the field on NWSL Decision Day. (Photo courtesy of the Wave FC)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycurrent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kansas City Current<\/a> closed out a record-breaking regular season with a 2-1 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegowavefc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Wave<\/a> at CPKC Stadium on Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwslsoccer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NWSL<\/a>\u2018s Decision Day when all 14 teams were in action and results set the seeding for the eight-team playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego started strong, opening the scoring in the eighth minute through forward Dudinha, who netted her fifth goal in as many games against the 2025 NWSL Shield winners. <\/p>\n<p>The play began with Dudinha cutting through the defense and laying the ball off to Perle Morroni, who slipped a pass back into her path. The Brazilian took a first-time shot that slipped through the legs of Kansas City goalkeeper Lorena to give the Wave the early 1-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wave held onto the advantage until the 54th minute when the Current earned a free kick at the edge of the box. Kansas City\u2019s Debinha stepped up and delivered a curling strike into the back of the net to level the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victory gave the Current a final regular-season record of 21-3-2 and the team set single-season records for total points (65), wins (21), goals conceded (13), and shutouts (16). <\/p>\n<p>The top-seeded Current will host eighth-seed Gotham FC in the quarterfinals next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Wave  (10-8-7) will travel to face the Portland Thorns on Nov. 9 at Providence Park in the quarterfinals.\u00a0Kickoff is set for noon Pacific time, with the match broadcast nationally on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this article.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Action on the field on NWSL Decision Day. (Photo courtesy of the Wave FC) The Kansas City Current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":352076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,65186,5468,30062,3549,88329,7264,221,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-352075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-kansas-city-current","12":"tag-nwsl","13":"tag-quarterfinals","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-wave","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115484511734144655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352075","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=352075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}