LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The United Soccer League’s Nicholas Murray wrote this week that, “After not conceding a goal in the league in the month of May, there was a certain inevitability that with the turn of the calendar, Louisville City FC would be due for a bump in the road.”
A red card in the first half of Sunday’s match at Orlando City B left LouCity down a man, but coach James O’Connor’s team managed to score three more goals and pull out a 4-3 victory. For that,LouCity remained in the No. 1 spot for a second week in the USL’s power rankings.
City, also atop the USL’s Eastern Conference standings with an 8-1-3 record, sits ahead of Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, New York Red Bulls II and OK Energy FC in the Week 11 power rankings. Vancouver Whitecaps FC rounded out Murray’s top-five.
The Red Bulls II remain the only club to have defeated LouCity this season. Since a 2-0 loss on April 2, City has played through nine straight USL fixtures unbeaten.
“City will have been pleased to see Chandler Hoffman get back on the scoresheet for his eighth goal of the season,” Murray wrote in this week’s power rankings, “but Andy Lubahn’s play after coming on as a second-half substitute re-energized the team and provided the impetus for a victory at a venue where both Rochester and Charlotte had previously fallen.”
LouCity next hosts Wilmington Hammerheads FC this Saturday. Match time at Louisville Slugger Field is 7:30 p.m (Buy Tickets Here).
