{"id":45213,"date":"2017-04-23T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=45213"},"modified":"2017-04-23T23:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T03:19:30","slug":"breakers-edge-sky-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=45213","title":{"rendered":"Breakers Win Home Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45215\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45215\" data-attachment-id=\"45215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=45215\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Breakers-17.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" 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-17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Amy Kontras\/isiphotos.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Breakers-17.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Breakers-17.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Breakers-17.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Breakers-17.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Breakers-17.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Amy Kontras\/isiphotos.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Boston Breakers kicked off their home fixture list without a hitch by clinching a 1-0 win over Sky Blue FC on Sunday at Jordan Field in Allston, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha Dowie scored the only goal of the game in the 37th minute while goalkeeper Abby Smith collected four saves to pick up the clean sheet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve put a lot of work in this week on making sure the shape should be what it is because it wasn\u2019t in Kansas City,&#8221; Breakers head coach Matt Beard said in a club release. &#8220;I\u2019m pleased. We want to pick up as many points at home as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hosts peppered Sky Blue keeper Kailen Sheridan early and often. Rose White, Tiffany Weimer, and Adriana Leon combined to force three saves from Sheridan in the first 16 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But Dowie would not be denied in the 37th minute. After receiving a pass from Rose Lavelle, the Breakers midfielder took on a Skye Blue defender and unleashed a shot that beat the dive of Sheridan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">37&#39; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tatsdowie\">@tatsdowie<\/a> gives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BostonBreakers\">@BostonBreakers<\/a> the lead with a beautiful finish!!!??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BOSvNJ?src=hash\">#BOSvNJ<\/a> <br \/>1 &#8211; 0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rzCHkT7xo7\">pic.twitter.com\/rzCHkT7xo7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWSL (@NWSL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSL\/status\/856252686898954240\">April 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sky Blue&#8217;s best bid came in the 23rd minute when former Breakers midfielder Kelley O&#8217;Hara flicked a header that nearly slipped through before Smith lunged to tip it over the bar. <\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Breakers picked up their first three points of the season (1-1-0) while Sky Blue stayed on one point (0-1-1).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said before the game we wanted to make this a difficult place for teams to come,&#8221; Beard said. &#8220;We got a talented group here. We showed a different side to our game today. I thought we were better defensively. We weren\u2019t as open.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Breakers will look for home win no. 2 on Saturday at Jordan Field where they&#8217;ll face the Seattle Reign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Dowie&#8217;s 37th minute goal proved to be the difference in Sunday&#8217;s 1-0 win over Sky Blue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45215,"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":[1124,891,807,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Breakers-17.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45219,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213\/revisions\/45219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}