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Louisville City Gives up Late Goal But Extends Unbeaten Run

July 9, 2016 - United Soccer League Championship (USL)
Louisville City FC News Release


Louisville City FC continued an undefeated streak of USL games on Saturday, registering its 16th straight while playing the Charleston Battery to a 1-1 draw. But the result left the home side wanting more after the Battery scored the equalizer in the 84th minute at Louisville Slugger Field.

LouCity allowed just one shot on goal - the tying strike - and possessed the ball for most of 90-plus minutes against a Battery team that entered with three straight victories of its own.

"Look, obviously we should have won the game," said coach James O'Connor. =1B$B!H!D=1B(BIt's a difficult one to swallow when somebody comes here and they don't get a shot and target and they end up leaving here with a point. That's the way it goes sometimes."

A pair of halftime substitutes, Cameron Lancaster and Kadeem Dacres, sparked the attack. Lancaster tallied four shots while rifling a 62nd-minute cross from the right side. It bounced off lunging defender Taylor Mueller, then grazed LouCity's Chandler Hoffman, earning him a 12th goal on the season.

LouCity held a lead for more than 20 minutes, until Charleston executed on a quickly taken free kick. Keeper Greg Ranjitsingh made an attempt to corral the ball before a shot was taken, but the Battery's Chris Tsonis recovered possession and booted in an 84th minute goal.

Replay showed Ranjitsingh clutch the ball before knocked away by a Charleston player.

"From where I was, it looked like he had contact," O'Connor said. "Greg was saying he caught the ball. I don't want to say anything about the officials. I don't want to get in trouble. But when you look at the angle, for us it definitely looks like there's contact.

"You can't change it. It is what it is. I think when you get a night like that where you don't even get a shot on target, it's just a bitter pill to swallow."

By earning one point in the USL standings, first-place LouCity maintained its lead over the New York Red Bulls II after a four-game homestand. Louisville has lost just once this season, and not since an April 2 meeting with New York.

The club next hits the road, playing July 17 against the Wilmington Hammerheads, another team that scored late at Slugger Field this season to force a draw.

"We're obviously disappointed," said LouCity captain Aodhan Quinn. "We want to get three points. We want to win, especially at home. We want to get three points, we want to get a shutout, and that sort of goal every game and today we only got one point and we didn't get a shutout and that's disappointing."

Summary

Match: Louisville City FC vs. Charleston Battery

Date: July 9, 2016

Venue: Slugger Field

Kickoff: 7:30

Weather: Partly cloudy, 85 degrees

Attendance: 7,526

Man of the Match: Chandler Hoffman

Scoring Summary

LouCity (0, 1, 0)

FC Montreal (0, 1, 0)

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