{"id":329107,"date":"2026-07-04T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329107\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:42:08","slug":"angel-city-beats-orlando-in-first-match-since-alex-straus-was-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329107\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel City beats Orlando in first match since Alex Straus was fired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maiara Niehues extended her scoring streak to three games, and Sveind\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir scored in her return from injury to give <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/soccer\/angel-city-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angel City FC<\/a> a 2-0 win over the Orlando Pride on Friday night at BMO Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Niehues fired home the rebound for the opening goal in the 36th minute. J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir forced a turnover in the 56th minute, dribbled and scored from a tight angle to double the lead for Angel City (5-6-1).<\/p>\n<p>J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir returned to the starting lineup after missing the last four games because of  a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Angelina Anderson recorded one save for her third shutout of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Interim head coach Leif Gunnar Smerud led Angel City in the first match since the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/soccer\/angel-city-fc\/story\/2026-06-18\/angel-city-fires-coach-alex-straus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">firing of Alex Straus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NWSL Golden Boot leader Barbra Banda was unavailable for Orlando (5-6-2) because of a thigh injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maiara Niehues extended her scoring streak to three games, and Sveind\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir scored in her return from injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[135920,135919,99180,99485,916,135921,1793,25441,135918,135922,139,141,140,135924,1100,135917,135923],"class_list":["post-329107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-36th-minute","tag-alex-straus","tag-angel-city","tag-bmo-stadium","tag-game","tag-goalkeeper-angelina-anderson","tag-injury","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-maiara-niehues","tag-opening-goal","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-scoring-streak","tag-season","tag-sveindis-jonsdottir","tag-third-shutout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}