After spending a week in the nation’s capital, OL Reign are back in the friendly comforts of their new home, Lumen Field. They hosted Racing Louisville for their regular season home opener. The headlines should be about forward Tziarra King, but once again, very questionable referee decisions become a talking point, in which OL Reign and Racing Louisville split the points to a 2-2 draw.
WHAT WORKED: A KING’S CROWN
With OL Reign behind after McDonald’s goal, they needed to respond and they did just that. Tziarra King opened her 2022 goal account with her first professional brace in a four-minute span that OL Reign fans have been waiting for when she joined the club in 2020.