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Courage fall to Gotham 2-0 in NWSL Playoffs
The NC Courage fall to Gotham 2-0 in the NWSL Playoffs.
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The NC Courage fall to Gotham 2-0 in the NWSL Playoffs.
Hey, good evening everyone. The NC Courage playing in its first home playoff game since 2019. Boy, it was gonna be an upheld battle without their Brazilian star, Carol Lee. She's their best attacker. She had a third of their goals on the season. But you know what this team has preached, we over me. So as a team could they find a way to defeat Gotham and move on to the next round of the NWL playoffs. Let's head out to wake me soccer park there. She is Caroline out with that torn AC L and her absence was felt, but it was pretty evenly played game for most of the first half of the closing minutes. Gotham finally buries a chance de Laney. She gets her first career in that. It's a big 11. N Gotham second half. Courage having the press. Gotham burns them on the counter, former courage forward Lynn Williams to Y me, Ryan, that's going to seal it. Courage sees its season come to an end to nil the final. Pat Welter was pitch side for the team's reaction. Disappointed was the word Sean Neja used when he addressed the team after the game, not because of the result, but because he doesn't get to coach this team tomorrow. The courage fall tonight. Two nothing. And the better, more experienced team looked like it. One Gotham got up one nil and the courage just couldn't find a rhythm in the second half. Caroline's absence was definitely felt tonight as much as the courage had been about. We over me. You could say what if, but you also got to appreciate what this team has done. And that's what Nahas and the courage are focusing on tonight. They've changed the dynamic of the club. They've put the club back on the map. They have people speaking positively. Let me repeat that word positively and look, we didn't find a way tonight and that doesn't change everything that's not going to define us. We proved ourselves right. I think what we've done inside the lines every single day, that's all we cared about. And we didn't listen to the outside noise that didn't, didn't bother us at all about coming 12th, coming nest in the league. That was the prediction at the start of the year and we finished third and we pushed every team to the limit. So as I said, I'm really proud in the huddle after the game, Nahas told the team we're just getting started. Now, he acknowledged there's an expansion draft next season. So there's no guarantee they can keep this group together. But he said we're going to be special. I can promise you that Casey.