{"id":80133,"date":"2026-10-18T01:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/washington-spirit-clinch-nwsl-playoff-berth-as-gotham-miss-chance-to-seal-shield\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T01:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:54:58","slug":"washington-spirit-clinch-nwsl-playoff-berth-as-gotham-miss-chance-to-seal-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/washington-spirit-clinch-nwsl-playoff-berth-as-gotham-miss-chance-to-seal-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Spirit clinch NWSL playoff berth as Gotham miss chance to seal Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Di Guglielmo scores first NWSL goal in 1-0 victory<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Gotham denied chance to clinch NWSL Shield<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>San Diego secure top-four seed as Angel City rally<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lucia Di Guglielmo scored her first National Women\u2019s Soccer League goal and the Washington Spirit clinched a playoff spot with a 1-0 victory over Gotham FC on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In other NWSL action, the San Diego Wave beat the North Carolina Courage 2-1, Angel City FC defeated the Denver Summit 3-2 and the Kansas City Current shut out the Utah Royals 2-0.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/oct\/18\/washington-spirit-gotham-nwsl-playoffs-shield-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Di Guglielmo scores first NWSL goal in 1-0 victory Gotham denied chance to clinch NWSL Shield San Diego secure top-four seed as Angel City rally Lucia Di Guglielmo scored her first National Women\u2019s Soccer League goal and the Washington Spirit clinched a playoff spot with a 1-0 victory over Gotham FC on Saturday. In other &#8230; <a title=\"Washington Spirit clinch NWSL playoff berth as Gotham miss chance to seal Shield\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/washington-spirit-clinch-nwsl-playoff-berth-as-gotham-miss-chance-to-seal-shield\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Washington Spirit clinch NWSL playoff berth as Gotham miss chance to seal Shield\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}