Matchday 12: Ms. Smith Goes to Washington KC NWSL remains winless to nobody’s particular surprise, falling to the Thorns 2-0. “Own Goal” retook the league lead in the Golden Boot race. All of our predictors called the shutout win, but none called for an Everett goal (or an own goal). Constant Weeder takes honors for […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 12: KC Barbeque Houston’s season-long home unbeaten streak ended as Sophia Smith scored in the 32nd second and the Thorns made it stand up. This was happy news for most our our predictors, as 1-0 with a Smith goal as the most popular guess (p.s. official scoring has the goal unassisted – bummer for […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 11: Sweatin’ With the Moldies The Pride visited Portland where they always lose. And they lost. All of our predictors won, with Daniel Stratton taking the honors for the correct scoreline and two assists. PastaBake got two points for a wild tale of pet chaos in the suites. Roses is now in the middle-of-the-pack […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 10: Pride Before the Fall Gotham visited and in spite of the Thorns having three one-on-ones with the keeper, a hit post, a hit crossbar, and two saves off the line – in spite of all that scoring potential there was no end product.. A chance to be firmly in first place was spurned. […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 9: The Dark Knight Falls The “depleted’ Thorns showed up in Louisville looking like giant killers. They gave Racing a comprehensive and unexpected beating. Two of our players predicted a clean sheet win, Savannah S took the top honors by also picking their namesake to get the first yellow. The wild prediction went to […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 8: Will We See Nadim? The Paramount+ announcers reminded us every minute that the matchup of the two best teams in the league was really even. Except that it wasn’t actually very close, was it? For the third match in a row, the best wild predictor on our team (4-4-2) scored two points, this […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 7: Arch Foes Face Off Kansas City was overwhelmed in Portland on the 20th – a very hot afternoon. The Thorns should have chalked up a large score, except the strikers didn’t strike. Unlike all our players — everyone who played scored! 4-4-2 led the way with six points thanks to the most-liked wild […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 6: KC Comes Calling As expected, Racing Louisville got squashed on June 5. Not only were they outmatched, they endured a travel nightmare to even get here. Better days are surely ahead for them, but it wasn’t this day. Roses took the honors in our game, getting the exact score and both the Horan […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 5: Racing In, Crawling Out? A proper game of football was played at the lovely Red Bull Stadium on May 30. Despite a continuous cold rain, the Thorns looked organized and dangerous while Gotham looked disciplined and tough. And Crystal Dunn scored her first (of many to come) goal! The 1-0 result was a […]
Read More The Thorns Prediction GameMatchday 4: Thorns visit Gotham It’s starting to look like preseason has returned, at least on the Portland side of the ball. Our second-ever loss to Orlando benefited precisely one person north of the Tropic of Cancer: John Lawes. Not only did he predict the exact score, but he got one goal/assist combo and another […]
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