KANSAS CITY, Kansas — Home or away, Angel City FC keeps surging.

Jasmyne Spencer’s goal in the 67th minute gave Angel City a 1-0 victory over the Kansas City Current on Friday night as the team extended its unbeaten streak to 10 matches across all competitions and moved to the doorstep of a playoff position with four games left in the regular season.

Spencer’s left-footed shot from the right side went into the far corner and well beyond the reach of Current goalkeeper Adrianna Franch.

Angel City (6-6-6, 24 points), which was coming off a 2-1 victory over the Seattle-based OL Reign last weekend, moved into seventh place in the 12-team NWSL standings. The top six teams qualify for the playoffs, and the sixth-place Reign (7-7-3, 24 points) has a game in hand on Angel City.

Kansas City (6-11-1, 19 points) had three wins and a pair of draws over its previous five matches in all competitions and was mired in 11th in the standings.

Franch stopped Paige Nielsen’s shot off a free kick in the 11th minute. Angel City goalkeeper Angelina Anderson, making her first regular-season start, saved an attempt from Kristen Hamilton in the 25th.

Franch made another dramatic save on Sydney Leroux’s shot in the 83rd minute.

Kansas City’s Michelle Cooper was handed a yellow card in the first half. Because of yellow card accumulation, she will miss the Current’s next regular-season game.

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