Wednesday’s game between Portland Thorns FC and OL Reign is not your typical National Women’s Soccer League game (7pm PT, Twitch).
In a year defined by the COVID-19 virus, the league has not been able to play a normal season, and until the last two weeks, it had only been able to play July’s NWSL Challenge Cup in Utah. With the arrival of the NWSL’s Fall Series, each team gets four more games within regional pods, but divorced from the stakes of a normal schedule, it’s unclear what, exactly, these games mean.
There are no playoff spots on the line.