{"id":820393,"date":"2026-07-23T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820393\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:48:12","slug":"ottawa-rapid-extend-nsl-unbeaten-streak-with-2-1-win-over-calgary-wild-fc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820393\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Rapid extend NSL unbeaten streak with 2-1 win over Calgary Wild FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784784793_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A soccer ball with the Northern Super League logo sits on a table before a league news conference on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 22, 2026 | 9:00 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>CALGARY \u2014 Ottawa Rapid FC extended its unbeaten run in the Northern Super League to eight straight games with a 2-1 win over host Calgary Wild FC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Second-half substitute Johanne Fridlund scored the winner in the 72nd minute for Ottawa (10-2-1), which won a fourth straight match in the women\u2019s pro soccer league and moved seven points clear of the Montreal Roses atop the standings. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played a good first half, we created chances, we could go around them,\u201d said Ottawa head coach Katrine Pederson. \u201cSecond half, we let them into the game. We made it harder than it had to be. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost the rhythm on the ball and when we gave them more initiative, they looked better. We managed anyway to create chances, which we are very happy about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A soccer ball with the Northern Super League logo sits on a table before a league news conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-820393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820393","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=820393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}