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NWSL Preview | Thorns return home to face still-loaded Red Stars

PORTLAND, Ore. – You can give chronology part of the blame for casting the bulk of this week’s attention on the Portland Timbers’ home opener. After all, Major League Soccer takes the field on Saturday for the full debut of the new Providence Park, one day before the stage is handed over to the NWSL. If the remodeled venue is the story of the weekend, you can understand while so much is focused on June 1.

June 2 is also a thing, though. So are Portland Thorns FC, whose Sunday home opener against Chicago Red Stars, presented by 2 Towns Ciderhouse, will bear a number of parallels to the day before (3pm PT, TICKETS, Yahoo!