Last Wednesday, we saw a Thorns FC that looked like the sort of thing you read about the first nanoseconds after the Big Bang; chaotic, random movements of sub-atomic components of a white-hot steaming flux, with little or no order that would be recognizable to those of us not familiar with the behavior of particle physics. Or soccer.
Saturday night against the Houston Dash, Thorns FC looked more like a soccer club and less like those strange neutrinos haphazardly bouncing off each other. The result was another draw, this one scoreless, but the match play gave us a little more insight into what we are likely to see in the season opener next week.