Reign vs. Courage: Highlights, stats, quotes

Ride of the Valkyries staff -

Seattle Reign extended their losing streak to five matches with a loss on the road against the North Carolina Courage. Tyler Lussi's first-half goal was the only score in the match, as the Reign fell 1-0.

The Courage remain dominant at home. They are now undefeated in 13 straight regular-season matches. The Reign move to 1-9-0 against the Courage on the road.

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The Reign (1-5-0) are back at home on Friday night, hosting the San Diego Wave. The match kicks off at 7 PM PT and will air on Prime Video.

Highlights

Stats

SCORING SUMMARY

37' - T. Lussi (Assisted by Ashley Sanchez) - NC

LINEUPS

5' Substitution - O. Van Der Jagt (In)/Quinn (Out)

70' Substitution - B. Balcer (In)/A. James (Out); E. Adames (In)/V. Latsko (Out); R. Brown (In)/P. McClernon (Out)

82' Substitution - M. Weinert (In)/T. King (Out)

62' Substitution - M. Matsukubo (In)/B. Pinto (Out); V. Pickett (In)/B. St-Georges (Out)

78' Substitution - D. Weatherholt (In)/A. Sanchez (Out); H. Hopkins (In)/T. Lussi (Out)

89' Substitution - R. Jackson (In)/N. Miura (Out

ATTENDANCE

8,135 (WakeMed Soccer Park, Cary)

POSSESSION

Courage 55.6%

Reign: 44.4%

EXPECTED GOALS

Courage: 1.52

Reign: 1.13

TOTAL SHOTS

Courage: 10

Reign: 17

SHOTS ON TARGET

Courage: 4

Reign: 6

SHOTS OFF TARGET

Courage: 5

Reign: 6

SHOTS BLOCKED

Courage: 1

Reign: 5

SHOTS FROM INSIDE THE BOX

Courage: 7

Reign: 12

TOUCHES INSIDE THE OPP. BOX

Courage: 19

Reign: 23

PASSES

Courage: 529

Reign: 420

PASSING ACCURACY

Courage: 80.7%

Reign: 74.5%

PASSES IN FINAL THIRD

Courage: 114

Reign: 127

PASSING ACCURACY IN FINAL THIRD

Courage: 67.5%

Reign: 60.6%

CROSSES (EXCLUDING CORNERS)

Courage: 17

Reign: 11

CORNERS WON

Courage: 2

Reign: 3

OFFSIDES

Courage: 3

Reign: 3

FOULS

Courage: 7

Reign: 8

YELLOW CARDS

Courage: 1

Reign: 0

Quotes

"I thought we did some really good things. I thought we stuck to the game plan. We executed it, just didn't show the quality in the final third that we needed. I think we outshot them by a lot, which doesn't happen often when you come here. We had to do better on their goal, but doesn't help when your player is on the side of the field for 30 seconds when she could have been let back on. So, bit frustrated with that one."

King: "We came out, we executed the game plan and it was an unfortunate result for us. We never want to drop points at all, but especially not on the road. They kind of got a lot of their attack in transition and off our mistakes and we had a lot of opportunities to bring one back. So, it's unfortunate, but we go again."

Van der Jagt: "Yeah, I thought our press worked very, very well and it just shows what we can do when we all press together, we press the right way, so I think that's definitely a positive coming out of the game. But kind of like Zee said, it's just - and I swear I say this every time - but just the little details, the finishing, we're so close if we can just put some away. Yeah, definitely unfortunate."