KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The Kansas Metropolis Present set a brand new Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League document Friday with a 2-0 victory over the Houston Sprint at CPKC Stadium, marking the Present’s seventeenth consecutive sport with no loss. It’s the longest unbeaten streak within the league’s 11-year historical past.
Kansas Metropolis entered the match tied for the document with the 2014 Seattle Reign FC, who went the primary 16 video games of that season unbeaten. Kansas Metropolis’s present streak dates to 2023; the Present are unbeaten by way of 15 video games this season and sit atop the NWSL desk.
On Friday, Present ahead Temwa Chawinga scored twice late, giving her an NWSL-leading 11 objectives this season, because the Present improved to 10-0-5 (35 pts.).
Houston, which was with out head coach Fran Alonso on the sideline for what the crew described as an sickness, spent a lot of the match defending. Kansas Metropolis dictated the movement of the match from the outset, outshooting Houston 17-2 within the first half, however the Present regularly squandered their alternatives in entrance of internet.
Chawinga broke the impasse within the 77th minute, pouncing on a scuffed again go from Houston defender Tarciane.
Two minutes later, Tarciane’s errant again go in Kansas Metropolis’s half of the sector put Chawinga in alone on purpose, and Chawinga calmly dribbled round Sprint goalkeeper Jane Campbell to faucet the ball into the web. The purpose was Chawinga’s eleventh of the season, placing her within the lead for the NWSL Golden Boot.
Kansas Metropolis, which is coached by former United States girls’s nationwide crew head coach Vlatko Andonovski, has now scored 39 objectives this season, 10 greater than the following highest-scoring crew. Seventeen totally different gamers have scored for the Present this season, an NWSL document.
The Present play another sport earlier than the NWSL’s summer season break for the Olympics: a July 6 house sport towards the Orlando Satisfaction.
Orlando can also be unbeaten this season, by way of 14 video games. The Satisfaction journey to Los Angeles to face Angel Metropolis FC on Sunday and will pull stage on factors with Kansas Metropolis once more with a victory.
The July 6 match in Kansas Metropolis could possibly be the primary NWSL sport to function a conflict of two unbeaten groups this late within the season. If Orlando wins on Sunday to maintain its streak alive, a subsequent victory in Kansas Metropolis on July 6 would finish the Present’s unbeaten run at 17 video games and provides Orlando a share of that document, which had not modified palms in a decade.
The 2014 Reign aspect gained the NWSL Defend however misplaced within the NWSL Championship to an FC Kansas Metropolis crew (town’s earlier NWSL membership) coached by Andonovski.