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NWSL 2026 Matchday 2

Bay FC v Angel City FC

Bay FC v Angel City FC

Bay FC7th 3 pts
1
1–3

Full time

Sat 21 Mar

Expected goals: Bay FC 0.94, Angel City FC 2.21

Angel City FC1st 6 pts
3

Sat 21 Mar, 8:45 pm EDT PayPal Park NWSL 2026, Matchday 2

The match event record is unavailable right now.

What it means

Bay FC

7th▼1 from 6th

In the playoff places, 2 points above Racing Louisville FC, with 28 to play.

Angel City FC

1st▲4 from 5th

In the playoff places, 5 points above Racing Louisville FC, with 28 to play.

Season series

Matchday 2 Sat 21 Mar

Bay FC1

Angel City FC3

Matchday 26 Sat 24 Oct

Angel City FC2

Bay FC0

Angel City FC took both meetings, 5–1 on aggregate.

NWSL table 2026

Standings →
NWSL table
#ShieldClubPGDPts
1Angel City FC2+66
2Houston Dash2+46
3Portland Thorns FC2+36
4North Carolina Courage2+14
5Gotham FC2+14
6Kansas City Current1+13
7Bay FC2−13
8Seattle Reign FC2−13

After this result

By the numbers

Angel City FC have 13 points from last 5 and are in form. 2.6 a match, against 1.7 all season. NWSL average 1.4.

Angel City FC are 10 matches unbeaten. Last defeat: 0–2 at North Carolina Courage, 26 August.

Angel City FC have 10 scoring matches in a row, level with their longest this season. Longest 10. Next at Kansas City Current, 7 November.

Bay FC have gone 5 without a win. Last win: 2–0 v Racing Louisville FC, 20 September.

The match on the pitch

Bay FC
89 possessions
11% ended in a shot
21% reached the box
4.2 actions each
Angel City FC
91 possessions
14% ended in a shot
20% reached the box
4.4 actions each

Where each team won the ball

Bay FC

Angel City FC

Where each possession began, both teams attacking right. Bay FC started 10% of their possessions in the final third, Angel City FC 13%.

Where the shots came from

Bay FCAngel City FC

Bay FC attack right, Angel City FC left. A larger ringed dot is a goal. Own goals are not shots.

How each team moved the ball

Bay FC

Angel City FC

Passes between 20 zones, both teams attacking right. Forward moves in the team colour, backward moves dark, sideways moves pale; line weight is the share of the team’s passes.

How long possessions ran

Bay FCAngel City FC

Share of possessions by number of actions.

Longer possessions shot more

Bay FCAngel City FC

Of the possessions with each number of actions, the share that produced a shot. A gap marks too few possessions to rate.

Where play slowed down

Bay FCAngel City FC

Mean seconds between one action and the next in the same possession, by where the action happened.

Every recorded action

Observed match events

Every action recorded in this match, where it happened: what was seen on the pitch, not a simulated path. 1,484 events in the record.

Bay FC attack right, Angel City FC left. Passes are arrows to where they ended, dashed when not completed; a ringed start is a restart. A dot is a shot, a larger ringed dot a goal; a diamond is a take-on, a square a keeper action. Showing the whole match.

Choose an action on the pitch or in the list to see everything recorded about it.

62 events shown.

Events shown, in recorded order
TimeActionPlayerTeam
0:10A. AndersonAngel City FC
0:44K. LemaBay FC
2:58S. JónsdóttirAngel City FC
6:08T. HuffBay FC
6:11T. HuffBay FC
9:33B. CourtnallBay FC
11:30S. JónsdóttirAngel City FC
12:46E. SamsAngel City FC
12:52K. FullerAngel City FC
15:13K. FullerAngel City FC
19:10Maiara NiehuesAngel City FC
20:38B. CourtnallBay FC
21:40A. PfeifferBay FC
22:56C. HuttonBay FC
23:00T. HuffBay FC
23:02A. AndersonAngel City FC
23:28R. TiernanAngel City FC
25:59K. LemaBay FC
27:43K. FullerAngel City FC
30:41K. FullerAngel City FC
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Lineups

Angel City FC

Angel City FC lineup: 11 starters, then 8 substitutes
Starters
A. Anderson
G. Thompson
E. Shores
A. Borges
E. Sams
S. King
K. Fuller
N. Martin
S. Jónsdóttir
M. Niehues
R. Tiernan
Substitutes
H. Seabert
S. Gorden
S. Mattice (link unavailable)
C. Lageyre (link unavailable)
T. Suarez (link unavailable)
P. Chilufya (link unavailable)
R. Reed (link unavailable)
F. Nguyen (link unavailable)

Position by matchday

Each club’s place in the table after every matchday, from recorded results.

Form before this match

Bay FC
Angel City FC