Trinity Rodman scored a pair of goals, including the winner in stoppage time, and the Washington Spirit defeated the Houston Dash 2-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
In other action across the National Women\u2019s Soccer League, the Kansas City Current downed the Denver Summit 3-0 and Angel City topped the Orlando Pride 2-0. The games were the first for the league after an extended summer break.<\/p>\n
In the 50th minute, Leicy Santos\u2019 pinpoint long ball found Rodman in stride for the smooth finish and a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Houston rookies Linda Ullmark and Kate Faase combined in the 89th minute to level the game at 1-1.<\/p>\n
In the final minutes of stoppage time, Rodman fired home the winner before the home crowd at Audi Field. The Spirit (7-3-2) have won seven of their last eight games.<\/p>\n
The Dash (4-7-2) have dropped five consecutive on the road.<\/p>\n
Croix Bethune and Michelle Cooper connected for two goals in Kansas City’s shutout of the Summit in Commerce City, Colorado.<\/p>\n
Off a turnover in the 35th minute, Bethune slipped a pass out wide to Cooper who buried it to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n
A minute later, Kansas City’s Temwa Chawinga drew a foul in the box on defender Eva Gaetino. The ensuing penalty kick attempt by Lo\u2019eau LaBonta would sail over the post.<\/p>\n
In the final moment of first-half stoppage time, Chawinga\u2019s shot was cleared off the line by defender Ayo Oke.<\/p>\n
In the 81st minute, Bethune found Cooper again to double the lead for the Current (8-5-0).<\/p>\n
Chawinga scored her eighth goal of the season in the 87th minute to complete the shutout. With the loss, expansion Denver fell to (4-5-3).<\/p>\n
Reigning NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year Lorena was out with a hip injury. In her regular season debut, Marisa Jordan started in her place and made three saves for the clean sheet.<\/p>\n
Maiara Niehues scored for the third straight game and Sveind\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir scored in her return from injury to give Angel City the win at home.<\/p>\n
Niehues fired home the rebound for the opening goal in the 36th minute. J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir forced a turnover in the 56th minute, dribbled, and scored from a tight angle to double the lead for Angel City (5-6-1).<\/p>\n
J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir returned to the starting lineup after missing the last four games with a foot injury.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Angelina Anderson recorded one save for her third shutout of the season.<\/p>\n
Interim head coach Leif Gunnar Smerud led Angel City in the first match since the firing of Alex Straus.<\/p>\n
NWSL Golden Boot leader Barbra Banda was unavailable for Orlando (5-6-2) due to a thigh injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinity Rodman scored a pair of goals, including the winner in stoppage time, and the Washington Spirit defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":911343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[368519,5229,329763,368523,4439,8605,84,336719,4345,18818,329764,368522,368520,368518,368521,368517,184754,223492,223490,324434,289007,289009,293534,328782,329766,329767,324435,336644,7202,7203,358,30491,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-911342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-alex-straus","tag-america","tag-angelina-anderson","tag-barbra-banda","tag-colorado","tag-denver","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-eva-gaetino","tag-houston","tag-kansas-city","tag-kate-faasse","tag-leif-gunnar-smerud","tag-linda-ullmark","tag-marisa-jordan","tag-michelle-cooper","tag-nwsl-angel-city-orlando-pride-washington-spirit-houston-dash-denver-summit-kansas-city-current","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32554-ap-online-soccer-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40787-ap-kansas-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-product-40819-ap-washington-dc-sports-only","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-trinity-rodman","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911342","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=911342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}