What really chafes cheeks is that the best part of KC last night was their defending. Cooper impressed me with her defending more than her attacking, and Robinson and especially Ball were absolute pests.
When you look at last night's stats, it's astonishing how thoroughly Portland dominated and outplayed KC, but those of us who watched it…
What really chafes cheeks is that the best part of KC last night was their defending. Cooper impressed me with her defending more than her attacking, and Robinson and especially Ball were absolute pests.
When you look at last night's stats, it's astonishing how thoroughly Portland dominated and outplayed KC, but those of us who watched it live saw the Thorns utter offensive futility time and time again.
Except for Kling's second-match-in-a-row brainfart, our defending was good, too. Not that it was anything resembling a quality attack that was testing them, but they did their part. The absolute futility of the offense lost us a couple points (should have had at least a very good chance at one, and I'll be salty about that bullshit no-call on a foul in the box no less obvious on the one given KC for a while).
What really chafes cheeks is that the best part of KC last night was their defending. Cooper impressed me with her defending more than her attacking, and Robinson and especially Ball were absolute pests.
When you look at last night's stats, it's astonishing how thoroughly Portland dominated and outplayed KC, but those of us who watched it live saw the Thorns utter offensive futility time and time again.
Except for Kling's second-match-in-a-row brainfart, our defending was good, too. Not that it was anything resembling a quality attack that was testing them, but they did their part. The absolute futility of the offense lost us a couple points (should have had at least a very good chance at one, and I'll be salty about that bullshit no-call on a foul in the box no less obvious on the one given KC for a while).