After a tough home loss to Seattle, the Thorns flew straight to Houston for a midweek game against the much-beleaguered Dash. Portland is currently in fourth place with an even 2-2-2 record, while eighth-place Houston picked up their first win of the season this weekend against an impressively bad Sky Blue side. Portland can and should pick up points on the road against this Houston team.
Projected Starting XI
Predicting the lineup for this game is a little more of a crapshoot than it typically is, both because there were no post-training media availabilities between Saturday and tomorrow, and because playing three games in a week is going to require a little finagling on Mark Parsons’s part.