Good teams can have bad times. We all know this. Sometimes that rough patches last a few minutes and sometimes they can stretch on for months. In soccer, the length of the down period doesn’t necessarily have bearing on the consequences that follow.
The North Carolina Courage are a good team. They’re at the top of the NWSL table for a reason. When you have a squad made up mostly of the defending champions, good stuff is going to happen for you.
But the Courage had 15 bad minutes. Just 15. Between the 30th and the 45th minute all their strength and resilience was turned against them.