{"id":263057,"date":"2026-09-16T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/defensive-blunder-leads-to-reign-team-goal-equalizer-soccer\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:18:52","slug":"defensive-blunder-leads-to-reign-team-goal-equalizer-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/defensive-blunder-leads-to-reign-team-goal-equalizer-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Defensive blunder leads to Reign team goal \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\/09\/2026-09-13T022911Z_2051909142_MT1USATODAY29807864_RTRMADP_3_NWSL-BAY-FC-AT-SEATTLE-REIGN-FC-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--><br \/>\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<span class=\"mvp-feat-caption\">Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s edition of <em>Anatomy of a Goal<\/em>, we\u2019re taking a bit of a different approach. We\u2019re not just breaking down the Seattle Reign\u2019s second goal against Bay FC here \u2014 we\u2019re also going to dissect the defensive breakdown that made it possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before we get into the nitty gritty, let\u2019s put some context around the goal. Brittany Ratcliffe iced the game for the Reign in the 90+3\u2019, finding the back of the net just four minutes after subbing into the match. 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We\u2019re not just breaking down the Seattle Reign\u2019s second goal against Bay FC here \u2014 we\u2019re also going to dissect the defensive breakdown that made it possible.\u00a0 Before we get into the nitty gritty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263058,"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-263057","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\/263057","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=263057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}