May 17, 2024 – National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL)
Racing Louisville FC News Release
Racing Louisville FC celebrates a goal
(Racing Louisville FC, Credit: Jordan Prather/NWSL)
Racing Louisville’s difficult five-game stretch continues on Saturday with a trip to the banks of the Missouri River to play the first-place Kansas City Current.
The match will be broadcast over the air on ION and streamed for free on ionnwsl.com. News Talk 1080 AM or online at talkradio1080.iheart.com, and the iHeart Radio app will carry the radio broadcast.
Racing (1-2-5, 8 points) is amid a five-week run of games against four of the top five teams in the league – plus reigning league champion NJ/NY Gotham – with four of those matches away from home. Coach Bev Yanez’s team opened the campaign with a six-match unbeaten streak, including two road draws at fourth-place Portland and at Gotham.
Now the Louisvillians are aiming to snap a two-game losing skid in what has been one of the league’s toughest environments, the Current’s CPKC Stadium.
Kansas City (6-0-3, 21 points) sits atop the NWSL standings in large part because of its success at home, where the Current is a perfect 4-0-0 with 15 goals scored. Coach Vlatko Andonovski’s team has scored four or more goals in three of its four home games, including the entertaining 5-4 win over Portland in the stadium’s debut.
Saturday’s game will feature some of the NWSL’s top scorers between Louisville’s Uchenna Kanu (four goals) and Savannah DeMelo (three) and KC’s Temwa Chawinga (five) and Vanessa DiBernardo (three). Another leading goal scorer, the Current’s Bia Zaneratto, who has four goals, has missed the past three games through injury.
Racing brings one of the league’s stingier defenses to Kansas City hoping to slow down the NWSL’s most potent attack. Yanez’s squad is first in blocked shots and tackles won in the defensive third, second in interceptions and fourth in both goals allowed and expected goals allowed. Kansas City is first in goals, big scoring chances, shots on target per match and touches in the opposition box.
Eight games into the season, Louisville is fourth in the NWSL in expected goal differential but 11th in the overall standings, albeit with a game in hand on seven of the teams ahead in the table. Racing is three points back from eighth-place San Diego, which currently holds the last spot in the newly expanded playoff picture.
To get back into the playoff chase, Racing needs to capitalize on its scoring…
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