Thorns FC: The Price of Glory

To have any hope of hosting the semifinal Thorns FC needed to beat the Washington Spirit in Washington. They did, 0-1.

In the process the Thorns lost Hayley Raso for the season, and had to rely, yet again, on their midfield to bail out the strikers, whose entire evening’s production looked like this:

Certainly part of the drought was fatigue. The Thorns were playing their third match in seven days. But Washington was playing their third match in eight and, c’mon, Washington!