{"id":208677,"date":"2025-10-13T01:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208677\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:04:11","slug":"angel-city-staves-off-elimination-with-win-over-houston-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208677\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel City staves off elimination with win over Houston Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kennedy Fuller and Maiara Niehues scored and Angel City staved off elimination from postseason contention with a 2-0 victory over the Houston Dash on Sunday in the National Women\u2019s Soccer League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Angel City (7-11-6), which would have been eliminated with a loss or a draw, snapped a five-game winless streak with the victory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dash goalkeeper Abby Smith pushed away a cross from Hina Sugita but Fuller scored her fourth goal of the season on the rebound in the 53rd minute to break a scoreless stalemate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niehues scored an insurance goal in the 86th minute, charging forward and taking advantage with Smith well out of her goal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It appeared the Dash might be awarded a penalty after a handball was called on the field in stoppage time, but the decision was overturned after video review. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Houston (7-10-6), which finished last in the league last season, had lost just two of the previous 10 matches. The Dash were not yet eliminated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Because of Sunday\u2019s result, the Orlando Pride clinched a playoff berth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kennedy Fuller and Maiara Niehues scored and Angel City staved off elimination from postseason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-208677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}