San Diego Wave coach Jonas Eidevall called Friday night\u2019s match against Racing Louisville \u201ca big challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Consider the challenge met.<\/p>\n
Gia Corley scored in the 27th minute and Ludmila added a goal in the 49th minute, and the visiting Wave won 2-0 to stay among the top teams in the National Women\u2019s Soccer League standings.<\/p>\n
While Racing Louisville (7-17-2) is struggling, a win against the team in Kentucky was notable nonetheless. Five of Louisville\u2019s seven wins have come at home.<\/p>\n
San Diego improves to 15-8-3, climbing to second place in the 16-team NWSL. The top four finishers host playoff matches, while the top eight make the postseason.<\/p>\n
Corley got the scoring started midway through the first half.<\/p>\n
Lia Godfrey found Corley down the left side. She drove toward the middle and fired a point-blank shot into the right-hand corner of the goal for the lead. Ludmila\u2019s goal came on a deflection following a shot by Corley.<\/p>\n
San Diego was outshot by Racing Louisville 20-12, though the Wave had far more shots on goal (9) than the hosts (1). The Wave had an expected-goal count of 2.94, meaning their performance actually outpaced their production. Sandra Pa\u00f1os had one save to register her third clean sheet in 10 matches with San Diego.<\/p>\n
The Wave return to action Oct. 2 with a match against Orlando Pride. At 9-13-3, the Pride are in 11th place in the NWSL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Wave coach Jonas Eidevall called Friday night\u2019s match against Racing Louisville \u201ca big challenge.\u201d Consider the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,76,75,1083,127,98683],"class_list":["post-476073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-wave-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}