At the end of last month’s Thorns Preseason Invitational, when his team had only scored two times in three games, Portland Thorns FC head coach Mark Parsons brushed off questions about his tream’s attack. “Get [the missing] players in,” he prescribed as the solution, just over two weeks ago. “I’m sure things will be fine.”
Fifteen days later, and the coach looks like a fortune teller. With goals from Caitlin Foord -- her first in the NWSL -- and Tobin Heath, Portland claimed their first three points of the 2019 National Women’s Soccer League season, with the team’s 2-0 victory in Orlando, Florida, leaving fans with a healthy debate to conduct over the next week.