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Kansas Metropolis Present ahead Temwa Chawinga scored her 18th objective of the season on Saturday, tying Sam Kerr’s single-season NWSL document set in 2019.
Chawinga scored two minutes right into a 2-0 victory over Racing Louisville when she ran behind Louisville’s protection and bought on the top of Debinha’s move contained in the penalty field.
Chawinga almost set the document on a number of events within the moments following that objective, together with hitting the submit within the tenth minute.
Vanessa DiBernardo scored on a direct free kick from simply exterior the field within the 86th minute for Kansas Metropolis’s second objective.
“She’s so harmful offensively, however she works so onerous defensively as properly,,” DiBernardo mentioned about Chawinga after the match. “I don’t know if she will get sufficient credit score for that. She’s grown a lot as a participant from the start of the season to the top of the season. It’s been so enjoyable to observe her play and play along with her.”
Kerr scored 18 objectives for the Chicago Pink Stars in 21 video games, ending with 0.87 objectives per 90 minutes. Saturday was Chawinga’s twenty third recreation of the season.
Chawinga has three extra video games to set the document. She at present has 5 extra objectives than the Orlando Satisfaction’s Barbra Banda, the following closest participant within the NWSL Golden Boot race.
