Welcome to your preview and match thread as the Orlando Pride travel to WakeMed Soccer Park to take on the reigning NWSL champions, the North Carolina Courage. This is the first of three meetings between the Pride and Courage. Orlando hosts North Carolina on June 1 and then returns to WakeMed Soccer Park again on Sept. 14.
This will be the seventh meeting between Orlando (0-1-0, 0 points) and North Carolina (0-0-1, 1 point). The Pride are just 2-4-0 in the all-time series against North Carolina, but three of those losses came last season.