Ladies First: NWSL 2024 Angel City North Carolina Courage

 

5e Journee

21 avril 2024

Bmo Field

PORT

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Après avoir perdu son premier match de la saison à domicile et joué trois matchs de suite à l'exterieur, l'Angel City Football Club a remporté dimanche sa première victoire de la saison au BMO Stadium face à North Carolina Courage, 2-1 avec deux buts de Claire Emslie.

After dropping their season opener at home and playing on the road for three straight, the Angel City Football Club earned its first win of 2024 at BMO Stadium on Sunday, holding off the dangerous North Carolina Courage, 2-1. A pair of goals from Claire Emslie were enough as North Carolina could not rally for its first away point five games into the NWSL season. Coming off back-to-back shutout victories, the Courage (3-2-0, 9 points) had not conceded a goal for 262 minutes until Emslie’s brilliant free kick in the 23rd minute that put ACFC (2-2-1, 7 points) ahead for good. Taken straight away from 20 yards out, Emslie’s shot was set up by midfielder Rocky Rodriguez, who tried to sneak a pass through North Carolina’s stingy defense to Alyssa Thompson while the young forward made a darting run to the box.

Courage defender Kaleigh Kurtz received a yellow card for bodying Thompson to the ground, providing Emslie a perfect spot to shoot over the wall and bend it away from the outstretched arms of U.S. international goalkeeper Casey Murphy. The lead held up through the break, even as North Carolina worked into increasingly dangerous spots around the Angel City box.