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Hoping Beckie has a repeat brace against KCC!

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And Soph gets three goals and three assists. A double triple.

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My humble pre-match mantra: Sinc or sit, Sinc or sit, Sinc or sit....

KC is fast as a fast thing can be. Disrupting their attack gives us a chance, provided we relearn how to score.

Probably want to start Payne ahead of Reyes. She and Muller can take care of the edges.

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Jun 23·edited Jun 23

Sinc or Swin

The ship be Sincin'

Sinchronicity 2

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Jun 23·edited Jun 23

Yeah Payne absolutely needs to be on and tasked with close marking whoever floats to that side. Temwa would be ideal but she often floats to the L not the R. I was looking at stats last night and if the Thornies in defense have been paying attention (and team analysts are doing their jobs), they’d see that Temwa only generally scores with her R foot. Only 1 with her L so if you can force her onto her L foot, that will def help. With Bia, it’s the inverse. She’s only scored with her L foot. Force her onto her R. These are things I’d keep in the back of my mind if I were on defense. As an attacker, I was much more comfortable with my R foot, and if defenses knew that…well, it sucked for me lol.

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I hope our scouts are as informed as you are. Müller may not have Payne’s speed but makes up for it tactically nous. I wished our FBs were offensively more dangerous to put additional pressure on KCs back line.

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My take away? There’s no one like Sam. She is irreplaceable.

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As frustrating as last week’s scoreless draw was I’d be kinda okay if we got that result today. Obvs a win would be better! But if our defense can stymie the KC assault? I won’t be entirely disappointed.

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I can’t imagine this game ending in a draw even though KC tends to draw when they don’t win. Both offenses are dangerous and both defenses are suscríbete. Thorns are more depleted. Hopefully Obaze is available and Sam can play 45.

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Which means that Hubly can NOT be in Derp Mode. She will have to keep her head in the game for 90+.

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Obaze is listed as unavailable "lower leg" FWIW.

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Payback time for the Thorns!

Yep, I guess we showed them, huh? They probably won't want to show their faces again here until next year.

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Looks like we’ve got Kling in the pivot in place of Sam…which is kinda scary. She hasn’t played much all season so let’s hope her passing game isn’t rusty! Gonna need all the muscle we can get from her. Guessing Sam comes on at half or 60’. Happy to see Payne get the start. Interesting they go with Izzy over Payton..:which means Soph on the wing.

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Oops subsribete should have been suspect left the spanish keyboard on.

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