Soccer
NC Courage draw 1-1 with Chicago in Sunday afternoon thriller
On a scorching hot Sunday afternoon, the NC Courage tied the Chicago Red Stars 1-1 at Wake Med Soccer Park.
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On a scorching hot Sunday afternoon, the NC Courage tied the Chicago Red Stars 1-1 at Wake Med Soccer Park.
Getting back to what works. That was the mindset for the NC. Courage heading into this afternoon. Ladies finally back at home hosting Chicago and in need of a bounce back performance following two straight league losses. Let's get you out to wake me soccer park first came back to full strength since the World Cup with Caroline and Emily Fox in the lineup. K doing what wanted to do, applying the pressure. Carol lead. Perfect touch to duke a test bodie who scores the goal, the refs making a lot of calls early. Few go in the courage's way. Fox gets called for a red card here. She's done for the game. Then there was this water break in the 34th minute place to spin it for about a half an hour due to the high temperatures 92.3 degrees. The max that they could play in 63rd minute now. Coch trying to hang on to the lead and corner for Chicago Tata Mazzo there for the header. Kur settle for a draw. Here's Pat Welter on a game that had a little bit of everything looking around the stadium today. You saw a lot of people doing this. So if it was hot to watch the game, imagine what it was like to play, refs, making the call in the 34th minute to delay play due to the heat a half hour break actually doing more harm than good for the courage. Weird rule for me. Oh, gosh. I hope this doesn't get me in trouble, but for me, like, it's almost worse to stop 30 minutes in, get cooled down for 10 minutes and then have to do another 10 minute warm up. And then now I actually have more meters under my legs because I have the same amount of time that I have to play. But now I have a second warm up fingerprints all over this one. And Emily Fox red card put them down a player for most of the match and completely changed their style of play. Then there were several calls and no calls, weeping head coach, Sean Na Puzzle. I haven't spoken about referees at all this year, but I in these type of games at this stage, it has to be better. It was so inconsistent on both sides. I asked Sean Nas if there was a particular call he had issue with, he stopped and said everyone. So a coach proud of his team's effort to be able to get a point out of all this madness, but not a happy man right now.