{"id":91934,"date":"2025-09-24T21:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/?p=91934"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:37:07","slug":"anatomy-of-a-goal-riley-tiernan-and-angel-city-force-own-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/2025\/09\/24\/anatomy-of-a-goal-riley-tiernan-and-angel-city-force-own-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Goal: Riley Tiernan and Angel City force own goal<div class=\"eqs-premium-tag\"><\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s iteration of <em>Anatomy, <\/em>we\u2019re bringing you a special edition. Let\u2019s call this <em>Anatomy of an <\/em><strong><em>Own<\/em><\/strong><em> Goal<\/em>, courtesy of the Washington Spirit\u2019s backline. The Spirit battled Angel City to a 2-2 draw on Thursday, September 18, and managed to secure a single point from the match after scoring 75% of the goals.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The own goal of interest was the third goal scored, and actually gave Angel City the lead in the 55th minute before Washington\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/aa0f9aa7\/Croix-Bethune?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=equalizersoccer.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-24_fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Croix Bethune<\/a> saved the day with an equalizer in the 71st.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Before we break our goal of interest down frame-by-frame, let\u2019s take a look at the sequence in full.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AttackingThird\/status\/1968889986624700590\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AttackingThird\/status\/1968889986624700590<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This one started right around midfield, with Angel City\u2019s central defender Sara Doorsoun-Khajeh collecting the ball at her feet and facing up.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img class=\"wp-image-91938\" src=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-5-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The German international drove forward into space before hitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/angel-city-nealy-martin-gotham-trade\">new teammate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/b26a8c1f\/Nealy-Martin?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=equalizersoccer.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-24_fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nealy Martin<\/a> with a square ball. At this point, the sequence was almost stymied by the referee.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"equalizer-paywall\">\n<div class=\"paywall-block\">\n<div class=\"paywall-heading\">\n      Access the best women&#8217;s soccer coverage all year long\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-body\">\n     Start your FREE, 7-day trial of The Equalizer Extra for industry-leading reporting and insight on the USWNT, NWSL and beyond.\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-button\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/eqs\/subscribe\">Subscribe<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"login-note\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\">Existing Users Sign In Here<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-fade-block\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better defense from Washington could&#8217;ve prevented LA&#8217;s second goal in 2-2 draw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5505,"featured_media":91935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2289,82,89],"tags":[2511,3159,1791,34,768,3207,767],"class_list":["post-91934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angel-city-fc-los-angeles","category-nwsl-national-womens-soccer-league","category-washington-spirit","tag-anatomy-of-a-goal","tag-angel-city","tag-extra","tag-featured","tag-nwsl","tag-riley-tiernan","tag-washington-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91934"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91948,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91934\/revisions\/91948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}