Expected Own Goals

This is the squad that might play the quarterfinals at home.

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g+ GameFlow: NWSL Regular Season Angel City FC v Kansas City Current on October 06, 2025. #ACFCvKC ⚽️🤖

The Current only need three more points from their final three games to break the all-time #NWSL points-per-game record, previously set by the 2018 North Carolina Courage.

#KCBABY

Some apples-to-apples comparisons (weeknight non-Friday home games in autumn)

Wednesday September 21, 2022: 16,112
Monday October 2, 2023: 18,102
Monday September 23, 2024: 22,000

#AngelCityFC

100%

Avg. attendance thru 6/7: 17.4k
Avg. attendance, 6/14 - 10/6: 14.4k (17.5% decline)

LAFC's attendance hasn't dipped at all, while the Galaxy's began to drop in March when it was clear the team was bad. Yet the line of demarcation for ACFC couldn't be more clearly tied to the start of the raids.

That is undoubtedly a factor here.

Some apples-to-apples comparisons (weeknight non-Friday home games in autumn)

Wednesday September 21, 2022: 16,112
Monday October 2, 2023: 18,102
Monday September 23, 2024: 22,000

#AngelCityFC

The 2018 Courage earned 45 points through 18 matches.

The Current only need three more points from their final three games to break the all-time #NWSL points-per-game record, previously set by the 2018 North Carolina Courage.

#KCBABY

Angel City coach Alex Straus on tonight's performance:

"Today, we looked like the way we're going to look going forward. It was maybe the best display of how I describe the identity that we are building. I'm very proud of the way that the girls played."

#AngelCityFC | #LAvKC | #NWSL

11,147 reported attendance at BMO Stadium, an all-time record low for Angel City's reported attendances in the NWSL regular season.

#AngelCityFC | #NWSL | #LAvKC

This could have been a 15-second spot. Wouldn't have interfered with actual play. CBSSN coulda had its cake and eaten it too.

And of course KC'S field tilt is actually 31% womp

SofaScore graphic depicting the shifts in momentum in the match between Angel City FC and the Kansas City Current at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, California on October 6th, 2025.

In the end, KC got to use their secret weapon: some of the best attackers on earth.

Score: 0 - 1
xG: 0.9 - 0.3
xG/Shot: 0.06 - 0.07
Box Shots: 6 - 2
Box Touches: 19 - 16
Field Tilt: 69 - 32
Getting pwn'd by Michelle Cooper moments after entering: 184 - 0

#AngelCityFC | #KCBABY | #LAvKC | #NWSL

Inexcusable from CBS Sports Network. You don't need to sell every last second of ad inventory that's not nailed down at the risk of missing the game's most crucial moment.

Bia Zaneratto and Michelle Cooper about to enter the game.

#AngelCityFC | #KCBABY | #LAvKC | #NWSL

LOL Michelle Cooper, Bia Zaneratto, Debinha, Ellie Wheeler all warming up.

#AngelCityFC | #KCBABY | #LAvKC | #NWSL

33 minutes gone, and still we wait for a shot inside the box...

#AngelCityFC | #KCBABY | #LAvKC | #NWSL

3rd among central mids this year in interceptions and blocked passes (essentially "incomplete" interceptions) per 90'!

SofaScore's graphic seems logical

Win probabilities for Angel City FC vs. a heavily rotated and teen-heavy Kansas City Current, via @americansocceranalysis.com

Angel City win: 29%
Draw: 28%
Current win: 43%

#AngelCityFC | #KCBABY | #LAvKC | #NWSL

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