St. Louis Lions WPSL, the St. Charles County affiliate of the Women’s Professional Soccer League (WPSL), returns to action Sunday afternoon with a home contest against the Dayton Dutch Lions.
The battle of Pantheras takes place at 2 p.m. at the Tony Glavin Soccer Complex in Cottleville. Both teams compete in the WPSL Midwestern Conference and each crave their first victory of the season.
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The Lions launched their 2021 docket last weekend and suffered a pair of setbacks. The team fell to Lady Victory FC 9-1 in Westfield, Indiana last Saturday.
In the contest, Lions forward Kat Van Booven broke the team’s goose egg at the 70-minute mark for her first goal of the season.
The team was able to settle down the following day and put forward a better collective effort against Indianapolis’ FC Pride at their Cottleville home pitch.
Trailing 2-0 thirty minutes in, Van Booven claimed her second goal of the season at the 33-minute mark to cut the gap in half.
FC Pride claimed another goal deep in the frame and possessed a 3-1 lead at intermission.
Van Booven sliced the score to 3-2 with her third goal of the season recorded at the 55-minute mark.
FC Pride nabbed a 4-2 lead at the 65-minute mark and maintained the differential for the two-goal victory that dropped the Lions to 0-2.
Even in defeat, all will agree that the Lions played a much-more disciplined game in the weekend’s back-half and will use that positive energy to potentially claim their first win of the season this Sunday.
Dayton Dutch Lions (0-1-2) are also looking for their first triumph of the season. The Ohio squad claimed 2-2 ties each against FC Pride and Columbus but was shut out by Cleveland Sirens, 3-0, last month.
The highly-competitive, seven team, WPSL Midwestern Conference has already seen a lot of activity through two weeks and neither squad competing Sunday can afford to find themselves at the bottom of the standings this early in the season.
As a result, one can anticipate that this tussle between Lions will be very intense.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for ages 6-to-18 while children five and under get in free.
For more info on Lions WPSL, go to their official website.
