Portland Thorns FC head coach Mark Parsons wasted no time moving forward from Sunday’s season opening victory when talking to the media on Wednesday. Instead of leveraging the lasting sentiment from his team’s 2-0 win at the Orlando Pride, Parsons merely nodded to a good performance while, shifting his focus to Saturday’s game at the Chicago Red Stars (12:30pm PT, Yahoo! Sports), noting the Thorns still need to improve.
“That performance that we put in was ahead of where we’ve previously been,” in other seasons, he explained, “but it won’t be enough next weekend against Chicago …
“Yes, it was a fantastic start, but we have a long, long, long way to go to get to where we’d love to get to.