{"id":253920,"date":"2026-07-20T16:57:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/angel-city-surge-gotham-wow-equalizer-soccer\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:57:56","slug":"angel-city-surge-gotham-wow-equalizer-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/angel-city-surge-gotham-wow-equalizer-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel City surge, Gotham wow \u2013 Equalizer Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-feat-img\" class=\"left relative\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/USATSI_29407565-1000x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1000\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-post-feat-img--><\/p>\n<p>Here are 11 thoughts from the weekend. We\u2019ll do this every Monday following NWSL match weeks. Some points will be factual, some will be opinion based, and some will just be random statements or observations.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dig in!<\/p>\n<p>I. Angel City are perfect defensively under interim coach<\/p>\n<p>Angel City\u2019s midseason coaching change appears to be paying dividends. The Los Angeles side has three wins from three matches since Leif Gunnar Smerid took over for Alexander Straus. All three wins have been clean sheets. 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We\u2019ll do this every Monday following NWSL match weeks. Some points will be factual, some will be opinion based, and some will just be random statements or observations. Let\u2019s dig in! I. Angel City are perfect defensively under interim coach Angel City\u2019s midseason coaching change appears to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6805],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}