The Chicago Red Stars (9-10-2, 29 pts) close out their last homestand of the 2024 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) season playing host to the North Carolina Courage (10-9-2, 32 pts) September 29, at 5:00 p.m. CT at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois. The sixth-place Red Stars look to bring their record even with the fifth-place Courage to finish out their final five regular-season matches with momentum as the Red Stars close in on playoffs.
September 29 marks Chicago’s Nuestra Ciudad match, presented by Wintrust, with the Red Stars’ celebrating the ever-growing contributions Latina/o/x/e people have on the city of Chicago. The first 2,500 fans to enter SeatGeek Stadium will receive a commemorative Nuestra Ciudad Red Stars baseball cap and Necalli Cultural Movement Performance Company will perform in the Fan Zone at Gate C before the match. Local performance group, Mariachi Monumental de México, will offer their rendition of the national anthem prior to kickoff and perform at halftime. Additionally, fans have the opportunity to purchase a post-match meet and greet package with two Red Stars players.
The Chicago Red Stars fell against the North Carolina Courage, 1-3. The club stays above the playoff-cutoff line, but will need to accumulate points to create space between themselves and the bottom third of the table to clinch one of the few remaining playoff spots.
KEY MOMENTS:
15’ North Carolina send a cross into Chicago’s 18-yard box. Brianna Pinto takes a swipe at the ball in an attempt to score, but doesn’t make contact. To North Carolina’s fortune, the ball ricochet’s off the Red Stars’ Cari Roccaro and finds its way into the net, 0-1 North Carolina
30’ Chicago’s Mallory Swanson tracks back to receive a pass at midfield. With her first touch, Swanson sends a through ball to Jameese Joseph who caries it into North Carolina’s 18-yard box and takes a shot, but the shot goes straight at the keeper who catches it to end the attack
42’ North Carolina find Denise O’Sullivan at the top of Chicago’s box. The forward takes a shot that curls past Alyssa Naeher’s outstretched arm and finds the back of the net, 0-2 North Carolina
49’ Mallory Swanson sends a low cross to the back post to Bea Franklin who takes a shot that’s deflected and goes out for a Chicago corner kick
50’ Chicago deliver the corner kick and find Bea Franklin open. Franklin gets her head on the ball for the shot, but it goes wide
52’ North Carolina take a shot from outside the box that goes straight toward goal, but Alyssa Naeher jumps up and touches the ball over the cross bar for a North Carolina corner kick
65’ Another cross from North Carolina finds Kerolin who sticks a foot out to redirect the ball into the net, 0-3 Courage
68’ Malham sends a ball into North Carolina’s half that Ludmila chases down, stops to collect her dribble and takes a shot from an impossible angle that gets into the net, 1-3 Chicago
