{"id":397675,"date":"2026-09-12T06:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397675\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T06:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:14:14","slug":"current-stage-comeback-for-draw-against-orlando-kmmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397675\/","title":{"rendered":"CURRENT STAGE COMEBACK FOR DRAW AGAINST ORLANDO | KMMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n               <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1684\" height=\"948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kansas_City_Current_logo.png\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"kansas_city_current_logo\" wpb-att-id=\"201398\" wpb-att-extension=\"png\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Second half goals by Temwa Chawinga and Elizabeth Ball allowed the Kansas City Current to claim a 2-2 draw Friday, Sept. 11 at CPKC Stadium against the Orlando Pride, maintaining KC\u2019s 29-match regular season unbeaten streak at home.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando got on the board late in the first half when Barbra Banda netted a breakaway goal. The Zambian forward doubled Orlando\u2019s lead in the 50th minute, but KC would strike back just three minutes later. Michelle Cooper drove the ball to the box, then slid a pass between several defenders to the waiting feet of Chawinga, who outwitted the defense and sent her shot past Cosette Morch\u00e9 for her tenth goal of the season. The Current wouldn\u2019t have to wait long for the equalizer, as Morch\u00e9 blocked two shots from close range, but could not position herself in time to stop Ball from sending the second rebound into the lower left corner of goal.<\/p>\n<p>Lorena recorded four saves for KC, with the Current recording eight shots on goals to Orlando\u2019s six. Total shots were in KC\u2019s favor 24-12, as the Current made use of 56 percent possession.<\/p>\n<p>The Current remain sixth in the NWSL on 38 points. KC travel to San Diego next Friday to face the Wave; kickoff is at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second half goals by Temwa Chawinga and Elizabeth Ball allowed the Kansas City Current to claim a 2-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-397675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397675","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=397675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}