San Diego Wave will be looking for a win in order to keep their playoff hopes in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) alive when Landon Donovan’s side face Houston Dash at the Snapdragon Stadium on Sunday.

The Wave’s play-off hopes suffered a setback in terms of 2-1 loss at North Carolina Courage over the weekend, while the Dash remain rooted to the bottom after a 0-2 defeat against Chicago Red Stars.

Here, GOAL brings you everything you need to know about how to watch, including TV channel, streaming details and more.

How to watch San Diego Wave vs Houston Dash online – TV channels & live streams

In the United States (US), the NWSL match between San Diego Wave and Houston Dash will be available to watch and stream online live through Paramount+ (sign up for a free 7-day trial), CBS Golazo Network and NWSL+.

Check out GOAL’s Live Match Centre for updates.

How to watch anywhere with VPN

If you are abroad, you may need to use a virtual private network (VPN) in order to watch games using your usual streaming service. A VPN, such as NordVPN, allows you to establish a secure connection online when streaming. If you are not sure which VPN to use, check out GOAL‘s guide to the best VPNs for streaming sport.

San Diego Wave vs Houston Dash kick-off time & stadium

The NWSL match between the San Diego Wave and Houston Dash will be played at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, California, United States.

It will kick off at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET on Sunday, October 13, in the US.

Team news & squads

San Diego Wave team news

Kyra Carusa is ruled out with a thigh injury, while Alex Morgan is on maternity leave.

Amirah Ali is likely to continue to spearhead the attack, with Emily van Egmond and Danielle Colaprico in the middle.

San Diego Wave possible XI: Sheridan; Lundkvist, Girma, McNabb, Morroni; Van Egmond, Colaprico; Doniak, Barcenas, Sanchez; Ali.

Houston Dash team news

Mexican forward Diana Ordonez is in line to lead the attack once again.

Barbara Olivieri, Andressa and Ryan Gareis would provide the support from midfield, with Jyllissa Harris and Paige Nielsen partnered at centre-back.

Houston Dash possible XI: Campbell; Patterson, Harris, Nielsen, Chapman; Rubensson, Nagasato; Olivieri, Alves, Gareis; Ordonez.

Head-to-Head Record

The following is the head-to-head record between the San Diego Wave and Houston Dash across all competitions.

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Danny O’Neil connected with Jordan Napier to tie the game in the fourth quarter and Gabriel Plascencia’s 28-yard field goal provided the winning points as San Diego State held on to beat Wyoming 27-24 on Saturday.

O’Neil threw deep to Napier for a 53-yard gain and on the next play O’Neil hit Napier in the end zone. On the Aztecs’ next possession, a 41-yard pass to Nate Bennett fueled a drive that reached the Wyoming 5 before SDSU (3-3, 2-0 Mountain West) settled for Plascencia’s field goal with 7:35 remaining. From there, the defense turned away the Cowboys (1-5, 1-1), who gained only 31 yards the rest of the way.

O’Neil was 16 of 27 for 254 yards passing with one TD and one interception. Marquez Cooper rushed 25 times for 87 yards and a score. The Aztecs’ other touchdown was Eric Butler’s 43-yard pick-6.

Evan Svoboda was 12-of-31 passing for 181 yards, including a 70-yard flea flicker TD to Jaylen Sargent, but he was intercepted twice. Svoboda ran for a 51-yard TD. Sam Scott rushed for 94 yards on 20 carries with a TD.

This was San Diego State’s first visit to Laramie since 2016 in a series the Aztecs now lead 20-19.

At the end of the nearly 1,100 foot long Scripps Pier in La Jolla, there is a tiny room with a lot of history. Every day, scientists lower a small container through a hole in that room down into the ocean for a sample. They’re looking for two simple measurements.

“We’re hand collecting a sample from the ocean, and we are measuring that for temperature and salinity,” said Melissa Carter with Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

What makes this simple task notable is that it has been happening at this same location every day since 1916, and the scientists today are using the same technique as a century ago. The data collected is the longest continuous record of such measurements in the Pacific Ocean, which means it’s one of the best places to track long-term changes happening in the ocean.

“It’s a gold mine, if you would, for such a basic oceanographic data set,” Carter said. “Because we’re doing it the same way they have in the past, it allows us to understand those trends over time.”

What they’re seeing are long-term changes in the temperature and chemistry of the ocean. A graph of the 108 years of data shows a noticeable increase in temperatures starting around the 1980s, and nearly all of the warmest water years have occurred over just the past decade.

“So, we’ve seen that the ocean is warming, and it’s warming at almost 3 degrees Fahrenheit over 100 years,” said Carter.

There are a number of reasons a few degrees of warming is significant. For one, when the ocean warms, it expands. That raises the sea levels, pushing water higher up shorelines, which can lead to erosion.

Second, warmer oceans provide more energy for tropical storms helping those storms grow stronger — and more quickly. Hurricane Milton arrived during record warm temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico and intensified at one of the fastest rates in recorded history. And it came on the heals of Hurricane Helene, now one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history.

Third, scientists say warming oceans could lead to more El Niño winters, which can change weather patterns around the globe. This past winter’s El Niño brought record rain to parts of California, including the historic Jan. 22 storm that dropped nearly 3 inches of rain on San Diego in three hours. That’s about a quarter of what the city normally gets in an entire year.

“We used to say El Niños occurred every five to seven years. More recently, that’s been occurring every three to five years. So, there is a change that’s happening,” Carter said.

And those simple daily measurements can help put the pieces of the puzzle together.

“In El Niño years, we may see more salty water coming in,” Carter says. “So, knowing the temperature, the salinity and the nutrients can really help put that signal together.”

Scripps Pier is one of 10 locations along the California coast where these daily measurements are being done. It’s called the shore station project. And while some stations have been measured for more than a century and others for just a few decades, they all show similar trends towards warmer water.

“It takes not just this station but many others and larger data sets to really put together the full picture of what’s happening along our coast,” Carter said.

As a side note, Scripps Institution of Oceanography recently installed a live underwater camera to the pier in the same area where the daily measurements are taken. You can find it here.