Bay FC wants to begin stringing collectively some victories – and shortly — if it has any hope of creating the NWSL playoffs.
The highway to the postseason for Bay FC bought more durable on Monday evening, because the second-year NWSL workforce allowed a go-ahead objective to Maiara Niehues within the 77th minute in a 2-1 loss to Angel Metropolis FC earlier than an introduced crowd of 14,971 at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
On the play, Angel Metropolis’s Miyabi Moriya despatched a nook kick into the middle of the field that Niehues headed previous the outstretched arms of diving Bay FC goalkeeper Jordan Silkowitz.
Riley Tiernan additionally scored for Angel Metropolis (6-7-5), which gained its second straight after an eight-game winless streak.
Tiernan, a rookie, took a move from M.A. Vignola and ran it downfield earlier than slicing inside and dancing round Bay defenders earlier than firing a shot previous Silkowitz within the twelfth minute.
It was Tiernan’s team-leading eighth objective. She moved into second for many objectives ever by an NWSL rookie.
Bay (4-9-5) has now misplaced three straight matches and is winless in its final seven (0-5-2). Bay FC’s final win got here on June 7 when it beat the Portland Thorns 1-0 at PayPal Park.
Monday, Rachel Hill had Bay’s lone objective as she scored on the rebound off her personal shot on Angel Metropolis goalkeeper Hannah Seabert within the thirty seventh minute.
The loss retains Bay FC in twelfth place within the NWSL standings with 17 factors, leaving it seven factors behind Gotham FC for the eighth and closing playoff spot. Bay has eight matches remaining, beginning with Saturday’s residence recreation in opposition to the first-place Kansas Metropolis Present (15-2-1). Bay FC misplaced to Kansas Metropolis 4-1 on Might 11.
The NWSL Championship will happen at PayPal Park on Nov. 22.
“Our team showed a lot of character again, being down and coming back and tying the game up,” Bay FC coach Albertin Montoya mentioned. “I believed we have been excellent within the first half and created a number of alternatives. The second half turned a bit extra of a transitional recreation.
“We just keep battling, every single game we’re so close, they continue to believe. We’ve got a lot of games left to go get three points.”
Bay FC’s Asisat Oshoala was given an excused absence amid quite a few stories of a transfer to Al Hilal Saudi Ladies’s Premier League. Oshoala, a two-time Ballon d’Or finalist over 5 prolific seasons with Barcelona and a much-ballyhooed signing by Bay FC final yr, had a team-leading eight objectives in 24 matches in 2024 however has not scored in 12 video games this season.
Angel Metropolis’s Alyssa Thompson was additionally an excused absence for the sport as rumors swirled that Chelsea was in talks to accumulate the 20-year-old winger. The switch deadline within the English Ladies’s Tremendous League is Thursday.
Any price for Thompson is more likely to exceed $1 million. The Orlando Satisfaction just lately paid a global file $1.5 million switch price for ahead Lizbeth Ovalle from Mexico’s Tigres.
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