It’s official: for the first time in the NWSL’s history, the MVP award isn’t simply going to the Golden Boot winner, but to the actual best player in the league right now, Lindsey Horan.
It’s hard to overstate how good Horan has been this season, and how important she has been to a Thorns team about to play for their second consecutive championship. She’s been one of Portland’s biggest goalscoring threats—her propensity for scoring on set pieces has become something of a meme at this point. Her 14 goals on the season are good for joint-second in the league, after Sam Kerr and tied with Lynn Williams.