{"id":240025,"date":"2025-10-21T02:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:48:06","slug":"houston-ends-kansas-city-unbeaten-streak-as-temwa-chawinga-exits-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240025\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Ends Kansas City Unbeaten Streak as Temwa Chawinga Exits with Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The No. 1 Kansas City Current hit an unexpected skid on Saturday, when the 2025 NWSL Shield-winners suffered a 1-0 upset loss<\/a> to the No. 10 Houston Dash \u2014 and lost their star striker, Temwa Chawinga, to injury along the way.<\/p>\n

Despite leading the match in shots, shots on goal, and possession, the defeat snapped the Current’s 17-game unbeaten streak, leaving the club one result short of setting a new franchise record.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes things like this will happen,” Kansas City head coach Vlatko Andonovski said postgame. “You’re going to dominate, you’re going to do everything well, but you’re not going to score a goal\u2026. I’m glad it happened now and not two games from now.”<\/p>\n

The loss stings, but with the top postseason berth<\/a> already secured, Kansas City’s concern turns to their 2024 MVP after Chawinga exited the match with a non-contact injury.<\/p>\n

A knock to the upper right leg saw the Malawi international wheeled off the pitch in the 29th minute, with Andonovski later clarifying that it was not a knee injury.<\/p>\n

Considered a frontrunner to repeat as both NWSL MVP and Golden Boot winner<\/a>, the 27-year-old leads the league in scoring this season with 15 goals over 23 appearances.<\/p>\n

While Kansas City is still awaiting a specific diagnosis for their star striker, time could be on the Current’s side, as this week’s international break gives Chawinga a moment to rest before her club closes out their 2025 NWSL regular season \u2014 and, more importantly, takes aim at a championship run.<\/p>\n

How to watch the next Kansas City Current match<\/p>\n

The league-leading Current will be back in action on NWSL Decision Day, with Kansas City closing out their 2025 regular-season campaign by hosting the No. 5 San Diego Wave on Sunday, November 2nd.<\/p>\n

The time and broadcast details for the 2025 season’s Decision Day will drop at a later date at NWSLSoccer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 1 Kansas City Current hit an unexpected skid on Saturday, when the 2025 NWSL Shield-winners suffered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[132466,132467,132468,132469,10156,34543,46185,132470,132471,132472,99,132473,132474,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-240025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-2024-nwsl-mvp","9":"tag-2025-nwsl-season","10":"tag-2025-nwsl-shield","11":"tag-houston-dash","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-kansas-city-current","14":"tag-nwsl","15":"tag-nwsl-decision-day","16":"tag-nwsl-golden-boot-race","17":"tag-san-diego-wave","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-temwa-chawinga","20":"tag-vlatko-andonovski","21":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}