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The club will be off until a July 29 NWSL Challenge Cup match against the Portland Thorns. This was the last league game for Angel City until Aug. No matter how it looked or developed, the game goes into the record book as a 2-1 victory for Angel City FC (4-6-5, 17 points) in front of 17,876 at BMO Stadium. It wasn’t even on target, but you know in soccer if you hit a ball hard across the center of the goal, sometimes it goes in. “I got a shot off before the center back slid. “I had a great pass, I was going to enter into a 1-v-1 duel and she overstepped,” Eddy said. In the 77th minute, Elizabeth Eddy, who just recently joined the team as a National Team Replacement Player, beat her defender on the right, then whipped a cross that went into the goal off of North Carolina defender Kaleigh Kurtz.

Meanwhile, the Dash sit in 7th place and are now winless in four straight league matches.LOS ANGELES - A little bit of luck can go a long way for the Angel City Football Club and Sunday, it was enough to earn a much-needed win. The win leaves North Carolina in 2nd place with 26 points, level with 1st place Portland temporarily but behind them on goal differential ahead of the Thorns contest on Saturday night. Boade was on the ball in the left side of the box where she was able to get a shot off, but Campbell was close enough to stop the initial effort and ended the move by collecting the ball in the end.ĭespite a late push by the Dash, North Carolina were able to hold on through four minutes of added time as the Courage push ahead again in the table. Ten minutes later, a save from Campbell in the 69th minute prevented forward Tess Boade from finding a second goal for the Courage on the evening. Lussi had been played into the penalty area on the right side, but in seeing her limited options, she opted to shoot instead of cross and ripped a shot near the roof of the net to help her side in front. However, four minutes later, Lussi would open the scoring for the on-fire Courage in the 59th minute as she chased a ball into the box and picked out the top left corner with a stunning effort. Into the second half, Rowland was called into action in similar fashion as Campbell was at the end of the first half when she had to come off her line and make a clearance to prevent an onrushing Houston attack in the 55th minute. Just before the break, though, Campbell was forced into action twice more as forward Tyler Lussi tested her in the 44th minute before she was required to sprint off her line and make an emergency clearance to prevent North Carolina from getting in behind.Īt the halftime whistle, both sides were eager to find an opening goal but would have to wait a bit longer to experience it. However, Courage goalkeeper Kelly Rowland was more than comfortable with the save. Houston’s best chance came in the 36th minute when a good recovery by a Dash defender then saw her whip the ball into the box. A scramble near the edge of the box led to the ball falling in Pinto’s path, but as she fired toward goal, she could not keep her effort from inching just wide of the far post as all remained scoreless. North Carolina continued to press on the Houston goal with chances in the 30th and 33rd minute, but Pinto’s shot in the 33rd minute is as close as either side would come in the first half. However, though Ratcliffe did well to stave off the pressure, her shot was not enough to get past the veteran goalkeeper and we remained in a deadlock.

Forward Brittany Ratcliffe found herself on the ball after a deflected through pass, which gave her the opportunity to close in on Campbell and her goal. The Courage were first to nearly find the back of the net when goalkeeper Jane Campbell was called into action in the 9th minute. The Courage have now won four straight league games, including five out of the last six games. – The North Carolina Courage relied on a goal from forward Tyler Lussi in the 59th minute to defeat the Houston Dash, 1-0, in a rematch of the weather-shortened contest in Houston in April.