{"id":45401,"date":"2017-05-07T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=45401"},"modified":"2017-05-07T22:50:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T02:50:53","slug":"breakers-come-up-short-vs-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=45401","title":{"rendered":"Breakers Come Up Short vs. Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45402\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45402\" data-attachment-id=\"45402\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=45402\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Breakers-1.png?fit=600%2C416\" data-orig-size=\"600,416\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Breakers-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Chris Aduama\/aduamaphotography.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Breakers-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Breakers-1.png?fit=600%2C416\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Breakers-1.png?resize=600%2C416\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Breakers-1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Breakers-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Chris Aduama\/aduamaphotography.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Breakers offense went silent on Sunday as they were edged by the North Carolina Courage 1-0 at Jordan Field in Allston, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica McDonald&#8217;s 32nd minute goal proved to be the difference while goalkeeper Abby Smith&#8217;s team record clean sheet streak in NWSL play was snapped at 254 minutes. The Breakers were held to a pair of shots on goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was frustrating,&#8221; Breakers coach Matt Beard told the media after the match. &#8220;Because as the game went on, we started to go a little bit longer when we could\u2019ve played and the final cross wasn\u2019t good enough and that was the story of the game for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#8217;s best chance for a breakthrough came in the 15th minute when Adriana Leon fired a shot that briefly escaped the grasp of Courage keeper Sabrina D&#8217;Angelo. Rose Lavelle and Natasha Dowe also put D&#8217;Angelo on notice, but neither was able to convert.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, the Breakers fell to 2-2-0 (six points) while the Courage stayed undefeated with a mark of 4-0-0 (12 points).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously they\u2019re a tough team to play against,&#8221; Beard said. &#8220;They\u2019re resilient. They\u2019re athletic. It was a tough night with the conditions, both teams having to deal the wind. It was tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Breakers will look to rebound on the road against the Chicago Red Stars on Sunday, May 14. Kickoff is set for 6:00pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breakers offense went silent in Sunday&#8217;s 1-0 loss to the Courage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1075],"tags":[1124,1627,891,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Breakers-1.png?fit=600%2C416","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45401"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45408,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45401\/revisions\/45408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}