OTTAWA \u2014 Calgary Wild FC was unable to recover from an early Ottawa surge, falling 3-1 to Rapid FC on Sunday despite a determined second-half effort.<\/p>\n
Ottawa controlled much of the opening 45 minutes of the Northern Super League match, applying constant pressure and dictating possession through its midfield. The Rapid generated wave after wave of attack, creating a flurry of chances that kept Calgary pinned deep in its own half at TD Place<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the team responded well at halftime. They put forward a better performance that matched our style and game plan which we obviously didn\u2019t do in the first half, so I was pleased with their response and their effort,\u201d said Wild FC interim head coach Sinead McSharry. \u201cThere were a couple of chances that we just need to be more clinical to put them away.\u201d<\/p>\n
The breakthrough came in the 16th minute when Ottawa\u2019s Keera Melenhorst cut inside to her left foot and fired a strike from just outside the penalty spot.<\/p>\n
Johanne Fridlund doubled the lead in the 42nd minute, sending the hosts into the break with a two-goal cushion after a dominant opening half.<\/p>\n
Calgary responded with greater urgency after the break, showing more grit and determination while battling for loose balls and creating several attacking opportunities. Meggie Dougherty Howard converted a penalty in the 65th minute for the visitors.<\/p>\n
Jazmine Wilkinson added the final goal two minutes into stoppage time to complete the result for the first-place Rapid FC\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ottawa (7-2-1) finished with a commanding 29-12 advantage in total shots, including 14 shots on target compared to Calgary\u2019s three.<\/p>\n
Looking for its first win of the season, Wild FC (0-7-2) will now head home to host Vancouver Rise FC (3-6-1) for the Wild West Match at McMahon Stadium on Saturday (5 p.m.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Calgary Wild FC was unable to recover from an early Ottawa surge, falling 3-1 to Rapid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,277107,48,94245,20739,277106,277108],"class_list":["post-783020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-wild-fc","tag-canada","tag-northern-super-league","tag-ottawa","tag-rapid-fc","tag-wild-fc-interim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783020","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=783020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}