#britt eckerstrom

[notoriouztph]

anyways stan portland thorns💖✨🥰🥺

[glimmerofawesome]

[bestieblog2]

my fave secretaries of defense (miss u britt❤️)

[nosowoso]

This picture is insane😳

[commander-lextra]

[tobinheath]

I’m for sure Mark...

[adahegerbergfc]

This seems very on brand.

[aj521z]

What Lindsey said 😭😭😭❤️

[kaliforniahigh]

Britt 😭😭 we had plans for youuu

[auggieunited]

They did more NWSL masks! also, can we talk about the Thorns for a second. 

[turn-up-the-heath]

Everyone who hates nc courage and watched them being eliminated by Portland:

[glimmerofawesome]

[mjmuse]

Empty stands

Staff on the roster

Orlando is cursed

The sun, playground, and farm have fans

The backup of the backup goalkeeper is the most MVP of all MVPs

And the last place team knocked out the number one seed

idk wtf is happening in this fucking pandemic-rampant universe

[itsmaddienotmaddy]

This game was literally everything I love about soccer. **i was in meetings the entire time I was watching and genuinely could not keep my shit together

But the TEAM EFFORT FROM THE THORNS. I know we’ve been making fun of them for being so calmly confident when they hadn’t won yet. But, THEY WERE RIGHT. That was some THORNY soccer.

Start with Britt Eckerstrom, coming is as the third string but apparently Portland has THREE first string goalkeepers. Masterclass. Absolutely incredible. Saved everyone’s ass.

But beyond that, the DEFENSE. That was full team defense. Lindsey was getting everything out of the box with her head while she was in. (Her poor hip, I can’t believe she played as long as she did.) Kelli put on the wheels when she needed to, and the overall just sacrifice of their bodies to block shots was incredible. They were swarming Courage players and not letting them do what they usually do. Big big credit to the midfield, Rocky, Angela, Celeste, SINCLAIR, Horan. And the full back line with Menges and Westphal and Kelli and Kling and Maddie. Hope Kat’s head is okay. (Lynn too!)

God. And then the possession at the end spearheaded by Rocky, Angela and Sinclair. Beautiful.

Morgan Weaver with the GOAL finally. The cross from Rocky was freaking perfect. So so happy for her. She’s going to do amazing things.

And miss Simone Charley did incredible and Tyler Lussi had a nice showing too.

All the Thorns. All the love. God that was so good.

Sorry to Sam Mewis and Crystal Dunn BUT GOODBYE NORTH CAROLINA. Plz have a safe flight HOME.

[hardtchill]

Tobin is worth much more than two bench players and 75K. So if you’re saying it makes sense for him to grab Press it makes even more sense for Holly to grab Tobin bc she’s the best player in the NWSL. Especially when he already got his GK in Betos, he doesn’t need one of Portland’s GKs right now which were the best players on their unprotected.

Two bench players for Portland wouldn’t be bench players for LV, they have a quality bench. Tobin wasn’t the best player in the NWSL at the time of the expansion draft and even now it’s a loaded statement. Besides you can draft the best player in the universe but that isn’t going to make them play for you.

Portland had a lot to offer aside from Tobin (Gabby and Christen for example), Utah didn’t that’s why it made sense to draft Chris and did it not make sense to draft Tobin. Drafting Betos also wasn’t a better choice than drafting Britt in my opinion, based on age alone i would always go for Britt (or Bella although she was injured at the time).

It has nothing to do with who how good you think Tobin is and everything to do with what other players they could have picked from their teams. 75k + two experienced NWSL players is better than Tobin Heath who won’t play for you.

[hami-photos]

Amazing game! 🌹 So proud of the Thorns and especially Britt Eckerstrom! 🙌