Vancouver Rise shared the spoils with first-placed Montreal Rose in a 2-2 draw at the National Super League regular season fixture on Friday evening. The result keeps the visitors at the top of the table while the hosts remain in fourth position after twenty-one matches played.
Montrose Rose dominated much of the first half, collecting three yellow cards before the interval through Marie-Yasmine Alidou, Anna Bout and Yuka Okamoto in quick succession. Stephanie Hill came on for Vancouver in the forty-sixth minute, but the visitors maintained their grip on proceedings.
And here's the thing about the second half — it was Vancouver who turned things around. Elizabeth Pechersky gave the hosts the lead in the sixty-seventh minute, a moment that shifted the momentum entirely. Both sides then made several changes, with Sura Yekka and Josie Longhurst among those brought on for Vancouver in the seventy-third minute.
Jessica Filippo De restored parity for Montreal in the eighty-third minute, but Vancouver refused to let the game slip away. Charlotte Bilbault was one of the substitutes introduced by both managers in the closing stages as the intensity built.
Then came the dramatic finish. Tori Tumeth equalised in the ninety-second minute, and Evelyn Badu completed the turnaround just thirty seconds later. By then, the match had become something else entirely — a contest decided on the final whistle rather than through sustained dominance.
The result means Montreal Rose remain top with thirty-six points from twenty games, while Vancouver Rise hold twenty-seven points after twenty-one outings. The visitors had drawn with Toronto on their previous outing, but this late comeback from the hosts showed the gap between expectation and reality on the pitch.
