Esther Gonz\u00e1lez scored a pair of goals to lead Gotham FC to a 3-1 victory over the Utah Royals on Friday night. <\/p>\n
In other National Women\u2019s Soccer League games, the Orlando Pride downed the Kansas City Current 3-0; the Boston Legacy beat the Chicago Stars 2-0; and Bay FC topped Racing Louisville 2-0.<\/p>\n
Cece Delzer gave Utah (7-3-4) the lead in the 23rd minute at home, but minutes later, Gotham FC forward Jordynn Dudley drew a foul in the box on Royals defender Nuria R\u00e1bano and Gonz\u00e1lez converted the penalty kick for a 1-1 tie.<\/p>\n
Tierna Davidson finished off Guro Reiten\u2019s corner kick in first-half stoppage time for a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Gonz\u00e1lez beat Kate Del Fava and rounded goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn to make it 3-1 for Gotham (7-3-3). <\/p>\n
Marta scores for the Pride<\/p>\n
Marta, Hannah Anderson, and Barbra Banda scored second half goals to lead Orlando (6-6-2) to the win at home in a game delayed nearly an hour due to inclement weather.<\/p>\n
Marta\u2019s long-range strike from well outside the box stunned goalkeeper Marisa Jordan for the 1-0 lead in the 49th minute. Anderson scored on a header after Ally Lemos\u2019s corner kick in the 57th minute to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
Banda made her return from injury as a second half substitute in the 76th minute and nine minutes later, she capitalized on a failed clearance.<\/p>\n
Anna Moorhouse recorded nine saves for her fifth clean sheet of the season.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo made her return from maternity leave for the Current (8-6-0) in the 82nd minute.<\/p>\n
Boston GK Casey Murphy shuts down Stars<\/p>\n
Amanda Gutierres scored for the second consecutive game and Nichelle Prince added a goal to lead the Legacy Legacy (3-7-4).<\/p>\n
Boston\u2019s A\u00efssata Traor\u00e9 was taken down in the box by Aaliyah Farmer and Gutierres converted the penalty kick in the 22nd minute.<\/p>\n
Prince took advantage of miscommunication from a Chicago back pass in the 58th minute to double the lead.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Casey Murphy made four saves for her first shutout of the season. The game was played at Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. <\/p>\n
The Stars fell to 4-10-0. <\/p>\n
Bay FC snaps six-match winless streak<\/p>\n
Kennedy Fuller and Karlie Lema scored to lead Bay FC (4-6-3) to victory over Racing Louisville and snapped a six-game winless streak. <\/p>\n
Fuller finished the rebound in the 21st minute and Lema forced a turnover by Louisville goalkeeper Jordyn Bloomer in the 58th minute to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
Jordan Silkowitz made one save to tally her third clean sheet of the season.<\/p>\n
Louisville (2-10-1) has now dropped five consecutive matches.<\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n
Phuoc Nguyen, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esther Gonz\u00e1lez scored a pair of goals to lead Gotham FC to a 3-1 victory over the Utah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-794710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794710","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=794710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}