The type of tunnel vision Portland Thorns FC head coach Mark Parsons adopts in the days before a game was on display Thursday morning, when his video conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Tacoma, Washington, cast him as unwilling to look beyond his team’s NWSL Fall Series finale against OL Reign (5pm PT, Twitch).
“You certainly, with your two questions, are thinking a lot more about it being the last game, the offseason, and other things that are coming our way than I am,” he said, when asked about the feeling and priorities heading into Saturday’s game.