July 6, 2024 – National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL)
Racing Louisville FC News Release
Racing Louisville forwards Elexa Bahr and Reilyn Turner along with defender Abby Erceg
(Racing Louisville FC, Credit: Jordan Prather/NWSL)
Racing Louisville aims to snap a four-match winless stretch in a 4:30 p.m. Sunday match at North Carolina.
The first meeting this year between the teams will be nationally broadcast on CBS Sports Network. You can listen to the match on Sports Talk 790 AM, online at 790louisville.iheart.com or via the iHeart app.
Racing Louisville (3-5-7, 16 points) dropped out of playoff position and into ninth place in the NWSL standings after losing its third game in four outings last weekend, a frustrating 1-0 decision at home to Bay FC. It’s the second four-match run without a win for the Louisvillians, who bounced back from the previous lull with back-to-back shutout wins over Chicago and Houston.
To get there, this year’s iteration of Racing will have to do something no previous Louisville teams have done – beat North Carolina. Racing is 0-9 across all competitions against the Courage, including three losses last year between the regular season and the NWSL Challenge Cup final.
North Carolina (7-7-1, 22 points) returns home from a 1-0 statement win at Washington, the league’s third-place team. It was the Courage’s first road victory this season. The other 21 points for coach Sean Nahas’s teams have come at WakeMed Park in Cary, N.C., where the Courage are 6-0-1 with 13 goals and just two allowed. Five opponents have been shut out there.
Louisville has eight points from road games this season – one win and five draws – with seven goals in its last four games away from Lynn Family Stadium. Reilyn Turner scored a late equalizer for 10-player Racing in the 1-1 draw at Seattle, the team’s most recent road trip.
The good news for Racing: The team should have a fuller complement of players available for the match after the recent return of Brazilian midfielder Ary Borges from a knee scope procedure and the end of defender Arin Wright’s one-match suspension. Standout midfielder Taylor Flint also returned to training after suffering a concussion in the 1-1 draw at Seattle on June 23.
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