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Mon, Apr 27th 2009, 10:17
Abby scores 2 to lead Freedom to victory
It was never a matter of if, it was always a matter of when.
After failing to connect on her first 16 shots over the previous three Women’s Professional Soccer games, Abby Wambach finally did what everyone expected her to do on Sunday – score a goal.
But Wambach didn’t stop there. After heading in the game’s first goal on a free kick from Cat Whitehill, Wambach put the period on the match by heading in another Whitehill free kick in stoppage time to give the Freedom its first WPS win, 4-3 over FC Gold Pride.
“Everyone can say there’s a monkey on my back, I do want to score goals for my team but most importantly I want to win games,” said Wambach.
“There are still some things to work on – defensively we had a few break downs. We put some goals in the back of the net today and that’s a big reason why we came out on top today.”
Heading into the half tied up at 1-1, Washington seemed to put the game away early in the second half as Wambach assisted Lori Lindsey to put the Freedom up 2-1, after which Lindsey assisted Allie Long to increase the lead to 3-1.
FC Gold Pride answered with goals from Tiffany Weimer and Christine Sinclair to knot things up at 3-3 in the 83rd minute before Wambach’s second goal put the end to the comeback bid.
“Well, I’d rather win in un-dramatic fashion but we are glad that we got the result,” said Freedom head coach Jim Gabarra.
“We’ve been playing well the first couple weeks of the season but we haven’t got any bounces and we’ve given up some tough goals and not put our chances away so it was nice to do so today. Even though it was the last minute, I thought both teams played well attacking-wise, but we are very happy to get the first win.”
Comments
Ella | on 9/5/09
Abby, I am a huge fan and hope your soccer career won’t end soon. Are you planing on retiring and getting married?
