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The loss marked the eleventh time this season the Legacy (2-7-3, 9 factors) have conceded first.
For the primary 68 minutes of their NWSL highway sport towards the Present on Saturday afternoon in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., the Legacy prevented Temwa Chawinga, the two-time reigning league MVP and golden boot winner, from posing a scoring menace.
Till, that’s, calamity struck within the 69th minute.
That’s when Chawinga rose up and buried a rebound that propelled the Present to a 1-0 victory over the Legacy, who will stew over the stinging setback in the course of the NWSL’s month-long hiatus for the boys’s World Cup.
Legacy goalkeeper Casey Murphy made the preliminary save on Croix Bethune’s close-range shot, with Chawinga gathering the rebound. Jorelyn Carabalí stored Chawinga’s try out on the purpose line, however the ball fell again to Chawinga and the Malawian striker buried it.
The loss marked the eleventh time this season the Legacy (2-7-3, 9 factors) have conceded first — the lone exception was a 2-2 draw towards North Carolina wherein they let slip a two-goal lead within the second half.
“Scoring early is what we’re lacking proper now,” mentioned defender Sophia Lowenberg, who made her NWSL debut as a second-half substitute after graduating from Boston Faculty earlier within the month. “Capitalizing on these possibilities is what is going to actually assist us ultimately.”
Kansas Metropolis (7-5-0, 21 factors) moved into fourth place and prolonged its undefeated streak at CPKC Stadium to 23 video games, an NWSL document.
Boston outshot the Present, 8-4, within the first half. The Legacy held a 2-1 edge in pictures on course over one of many league’s top-scoring offenses by way of 45 minutes.
The Legacy have fired 45 pictures on course however transformed simply 11 throughout 12 video games this season, and their minus-7 purpose differential is the third-worst within the league. Saturday’s end result marks the fifth time the Legacy have been shut out.
Legacy coach Filipa Patão insisted that “nothing wants to vary,” and that her workforce will spend the break specializing in “the identical issues” they’ve all season.
“Each time somebody asks me ‘What wants to vary?’ as a result of we misplaced, and we had the identical ideas and dynamics that convey us victories or attracts, [that means] they don’t seem to be watching the sport,” Patão mentioned.
Because the Legacy misplaced steam and struggled to take care of possession late within the second half, the coach subbed off striker Aïssata Traoré, who has scored two of her three targets this season within the ninetieth minute or later.
“We would have liked gamers that may maintain [the ball] somewhat bit extra,” Patão mentioned. “The workforce already was very drained within the last [minutes] of the sport to [make] higher choices.”
The Legacy will return to the sphere July 5 to host Bay FC at Centreville Financial institution Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I.
“We [can] study lots from this sport on how, once we do maintain it so shut, to then pull out outcomes, whether or not it’s a degree or three factors,” Lowenberg mentioned. “That’s what we’re going to deal with within the break, ending these video games out and getting the outcomes we wish.”
