August 5, 2022 – United Soccer League Championship (USL) – Louisville City FC News Release
Louisville City FC midfielder Niall McCabe
(Louisville City FC, Credit: Connor Cunningham)
Louisville City FC will look to keep its unbeaten streak alive this Saturday when Charleston Battery visits Lynn Family Stadium for an 8 p.m. kickoff.
An in-form LouCity hasn’t lost since early June – a run of seven straight games – to boast a 14-3-4 record. Its 46 points are good enough to sit atop the USL Championship’s Eastern Conference standings.
Charleston comes to Louisville with a nearly opposite record at 3-15-4, or 13 points. The Battery, well outside the playoff picture, haven’t won yet on the road this season.
Saturday’s meeting marks a rematch from a 1-1 draw April 23 in South Carolina. That day, LouCity played its third game in a week combined with some cross-country travel. This go around, the boys in purple have rested since last weekend’s 1-0 victory at El Paso Locomotive FC.
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The game will air live locally on WBKI and ESPN Louisville’s 680/105.7, with streaming via ESPN+ and the WDRB Now app.
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Injury report
Cameron Lancaster (Out)
Ian Soler (Out)
Josh Wynder (Out)
Story lines…
First-place races: LouCity enters the weekend a point ahead of the Tampa Bay Rowdies those those two sides – who played for the Eastern Conference Final the past two seasons – set to meet Aug. 13 in a major midseason showdown at Lynn Family Stadium. San Antonio FC is setting a historic pace atop the Western Conference for the USL Championship’s best overall total, equaling the league record for fewest games (21) to reach 50 points.
Bigger picture: Riding a seven-game unbeaten streak, LouCity boasts a USL Championship-best +28 goal differential, plus shares the league lead in clean sheets (11) and fewest goals conceded (15). The boys in purple are off to their best-ever start through 21 games, with 46 bettering the 2016 team’s 43 points.
In the stands: The boys in purple are gearing up for back-to-back weekends at Lynn Family Stadium, where they’ve been nearly unbeatable since capacities limits were dashed midway through the 2021 campaign. City went on to lose just one 100% capacity game last season and is 7-1-2 on its home turf in 2022.
Bagel factory: Kyle Morton registered his ninth clean sheet with last Saturday’s 1-0 victory…