Portland Thorns Vs Chicago Red Stars: 3 things we learned – Ooft

In the marquee NWSL match of the weekend, the Chicago Red Stars were dismantled in a 3-0 defeat to the Portland Thorns. Here are three things we learned.

There’s a quote from a Rilo Kiley song: “This loss isn’t good enough for sorrow or inspiration. It’s such a loss for the good guys…That it just is”. For the Chicago Red Stars right now, it just is.

I said before the weekend’s daunting task of playing the league-leading Portland Thorns that this would be an insurmountable task if Chicago could not get going and, well, they didn’t. The Portland Thorns are just too good and the Red Stars are on a soul search at the moment. The Red Stars mustered just two shots on goal as they were annihilated…