Finally!
After what felt like an eternity NWSL play resumes this coming weekend, so our prediction play resumes as well.
My own laziness and carelessness prevented most of our punters from wagering on the lively 2-2 home draw with Utah that closed the NWSL first-half-season, so rather than end the Apertura season of TTPG we’re going to play one more round this week, then reset to begin the Clausura portion of the year.
Here’s where our league table stands before Matchday 14:
| Player | Latest Round | Cumulative Score |
| PTFC Dave | 1 | 38 |
| Ken | 6 | 41 |
| Barcasiempre | 3 | 30 |
| DanXP2 | 0 | 4 |
| Daniel Stratton | 0 | 6 |
| David Mellinger | 0 | 3 |
How all this works:
Before the upcoming Thorns match add a comment to this post. As your first line, put your predicted result, for example 1-3 Thorns.
In the body of your comment, start with the goals and assists, like so:
Wilson (Fleming)
Reyes (Free kick)
Moultrie (Unassisted)
Rodman (PK)
Next, name the first yellow card recipient: Sophia Wilson
Then a red card. (NOTE: no points awarded for correctly calling a red-card-free match, so take a guess.) Trinity Rodman for mimicking mooning the referee after getting an undeserved yellow.
Make your fun prediction,and give a “thumbs up” to anybody else’s prediction that tickles your fancy: “Ryan gets the start against her former club. She gets through 70 minutes without fouling her former teammates until she can’t take it anymore. She pushes over Perry, gives Muller a wedgie, gives Arnold a noogie, then flips off the Riveters and runs out of Providence Park, never to be seen again. The ref issues a red card, which she later contests, and loses.” (h/t to ABell4)
Scoring:
· Correct score: 5 points
· Correct result (draw/win/loss): 3 points
· Each clean sheet: 2 points
· Each goal-scorer: 1 point
· Each FK/PK/assist/lack of assist: 1 point
· Goal/assist bonus: 1 point
· Player with the first yellow card of the match: 1 point
· A player with a red card: 1 point
· Most liked/most outrageously accurate prediction: 2 points
Some ground rules and explanations/clarifications (the fine print):
Comments must be posted before kickoff, but you can edit or amend an earlier prediction right up to the starting whistle.
Keep your scoreline predictions realistic. No crazy scores just to pad out your odds of getting goals and assists.
The goal/assist bonus is an additional point if you predict the correct scorer and assistant on the same goal, for example, you say Castellanos scores from a Moultrie assist and that is exactly what happens.
Be clear whether you think a goal will be unassisted, assisted, or from a PK/FK. Unassisted = no assist, run of play; Assisted = player who got the assist; PK/FK = dead ball, not in run of play. FK includes olimpicos from corners. No entry means unassisted.
Okay, so, this Sunday.
The visitors are the Whiskey Chicks of Racing Louisville. Normally this would not be a challenge for the home side; Racing are dreadful (16th of 16, 7pts, 2-1-8, 15GF, 20GA) and a visit from the prospective Wooden Spoon is hardly a worrisome thing…
But.
The reverse fixture back in early May was one of the Thorns worst 2026 performances, as well as the last Louisville win of the season – since then Racing has lost to (in order) Utah away, Carolina, and Denver.
The return of Emma Sears was supposed to jump-start the Racing attack. Instead her stoppage-time goal on us was her last; Kayla Fisher got one in Utah, Arin Wright got her first goal against The Damned, and Denver shut out the club (at home? Ouch!).
Meanwhile Portland, as we know, went 1-2-1 after the match in Louisville, drawing ACFC then defeating Bay FC here, losing at Kansas City, and then rescued a home point against Utah.
Last meeting: May 8, 2026, Lynn Family Stadium, Louisville, KY, 3-1 Thorns loss.
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3-1 Thorns
Sears (Fischer)
Moultrie (Wilson)
Wilson (Tordin)
Turner (Moultrie)
First yellow: Flint
Red: Flint (second yellow)
Emma Sears, trying to get her USWNT career back on track, asks Sophia Wilson for any tips. “Playing for a good team helps”, says Wilson … and the burn odor can be smelled throughout Providence Park.
I believe the statistics favor me to call a Wilson Hat Trick right at least once this year.
3-1 Thorns
Wilson/Tordin
Wilson/Moultrie
Wilson/Hanks (First appearance 2026)
Sears/O’Kane
Yellow Cards Racing: Flint; Thorns: Perry
Red Card: Flint
Coach Yanez gets a Red Card for covering her mouth when saying something to Robert Vilahamn at the half time break, she claims after the game she only said he has her vote for Coach of the Year. Racing will appeal her Red Card, but her appeal is almost as unlikely as Balogun’s on the USMNT. Soccer is a cruel sport.
I want to start this off by saying, both PTFCDave and BARCASIEMPRE have my vote for the super funniest, best, most outrageous fancy of the game. I concede. Thumbs up for both!
2-0 Thorns – Louisville
Wilson/Tordin
Wilson (just steals the ball and drives on her own)
1st Yellow – Flint
Red – Flint punches down, literally, on Tordin.