Even with a change in coaches, NJ/NY Gotham FC wound up with a familiar result on Sunday.

The National Women’s Soccer League team lost, a 4-1 result to OL Reign 4-1 at Lumen Field in Seattle.

Beverly Goebel Yanez was the de-facto head coach, with interim coach Hue Menzies arriving to meet the team on Saturday. Menzies, the head coach of the Jamaican women’s national team, replaced Scott Parkinson, who

Gotham FC dropped to 4-9-0 while the Reign improved to 6-4-6.

“Obviously the club is going through the transition at the moment and trying to support in any way that I can is going to be key in making sure this transition goes well,” Yanez said in a statement. “And I think for us, we’re going to try and continue to push as much as possible and stay together to try and put on a good performance and ask our players every day to compete, so I think for us it’s just continuing to push in every aspect but continuing to support as well.”

Rose Lavelle scored in the 15th minute on an assist from Megan Rapinoe to take a 1-0 lead. Rapinoe, who has converted the second most penalty kicks in NWSL history, connected one in the 42nd minute.

Jordyn Huitema assisted Rapinoe in the 69th minute to make it 3-0. Taylor Smith broke through for the visitors in the 72nd minute on an assist from Ifeoma Onumonu.

“It’s not the score we wanted, but I do feel like we had good moments this game,” Smith said. “We’re building off of things and that people are feeling a little bit better about being able to connect our passes.”

Gotham scored an own goal just over a minute later for the final tally of the match.

“Obviously we wanted a better result, so we have a lot to learn on and grow on,” defender Ellie Jean said.

Jean added that the team was “trying to rally after our first half of the season. We’re really trying to be the team that can make an incredible comeback and try to be in a position to make the playoffs and we’re trying to look forward to that and try to piece something together for these last ten games to get us where we want to be and where we’re hoping to be.”

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.