August 7, 2022 – National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) – Orlando Pride News Release
ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando Pride (3-5-6, 15 points) played to a 2-2 draw in Angel City FC’s (5-5-3, 18 points) first-ever trip to Exploria Stadium on Sunday night. With the result, the Pride have now gone unbeaten in their last five games dating back to July 3.
The Pride were backed by goals from second-half substitute Julie Doyle as well as an Angel City own goal in the 90th minute. Doyle’s strike was her second of the season, with both goals coming in the Pride’s last two matches. She is the first Pride player to score in consecutive games this season.
This was the first home match played for the Pride in the last 30 days when they beat the Houston Dash on July 8. The Pride also earned a result that game thanks to an own goal in the second-half.
Acting Orlando Pride Head Coach Seb Hines:
“Entertaining [game]. It is happening more often than not. I said it in the pregame that what you will find today are two teams that both wanted to win, needed to win, to get three points. We are obviously chasing Angel City and they are obviously chasing to get to the playoffs as well. I felt that we dominated the game in possession. Even out of possession I think we were in controlled spaces. They were patient in trying to pull us out of positions, but we are allowing the right people to have time and space on the ball. There were a few little adjustments we had to make at halftime. We had to increase the energy and shift across to keep those spaces tight and the players did that. The game is all down to goals. We created a lot of good opportunities to score, but we have to take them. When we do take them, we are going to be even more of a threat than we showed today.”
Scoring Recap:
40′ Ali Riley – LA 1, ORL 0
The visitors opened the scoring after Ali Riley found some space on the left side of the box and sent a shot with her left foot across the goal and into the upper right corner of the net.
64′ Julie Doyle – ORL 1, LA 1
The second-half substitute leveled the match when she pounced on an errant pass by Angel City deep in their own box and sent a rocket of a shot with her left foot into the roof of the net.
72′ Cari Roccaro (Paige Nielsen) – LA 2, ORL 1
Angel City regained the lead off a corner kick with Paige Nielsen able to flick the ball into the middle of the box. The ball fell to the feet of Cari Roccaro who took a touch and fired the ball through a sea of people and over the goal…