Great play from Pfeiffer setting up that goal. She's so important to next season for the Current imo. Very happy she's getting these minutes in this format with freedom to just attack and attack. #KCBaby

Won the last 4 because we had the best lines--especially on the defensive front. Getting no pressure today cause this year's defensive line can't do it alone. Gonna need a lot of investment there before next season. #GoBlue

Imo, Vlatko got extra time all wrong. Didn't continue momentum from reg, sought to calm things down & get back in shape. Moved Hopkins back wide so Bia was lone target again, focus of GOT. Then kept Hopkins wide after Bia hurt. Had no one to get on a ball, couldn't get out of our half. Sigh. #KCBaby

Hopefully can use Wheeler (!!!) more in extra time getting behind with her pace and letting Hopkins stay toward the middle so Bia can feed her in (assuming this ref doesn't send Bia off) #KCBaby

Was a huge issue. Though not as huge of an issue as the return of what it don't want to call playoffs Sharples. Ball was great before having to go off. #KCBaby

Cooper out is a huge blow. Could also make Prince's goal last week even more huge. The Current have had issues all season any time a share of goal creation had to shift to Prince. If getting hot in front of goal is a real thing, and if last week did that for Prince, it would be a great boon. #KCBaby

And 18 more to get the Current's 3rd direct free kick goal in nwsl play and Debinha's 2nd, giving her the single season and all time club lead over DiBernardo. #KCBaby

Guess it's time for an update to this. Results from Hunt's last 20 games don't really argue for his firing, but it should be mentioned that includes non-league games. In league, this season, he's 1.07 ppg, and over last 20 in league he's 1.25. #ReadingFC

#ReadingFC Pass/Touch chart in the league thru October

The Most Lethal Outside the Box Scorer We've Ever Seen #ReadingFC

Royals TV said #ReadingFC haven't scored from a set piece this season, but technically Marriott's goal from outside the box against Barnsley was off a free kick. Just from real deep in our half.

That's a horrible offensive pass interference call and even worse punt by Wink Martindale #GoBlue

The entire Republican project for 30 years has been to entrench minority rule, and in that effort, as predicted, they birthed a despot, under whose boot they cower so to not risk their positions of comfort. Their oaths rot beneath their lying tongues.

No top box defense, Bassong out of step w entire team, zero threat awareness. This is worst #SportingKC team on corners in my tracking (back to 2016), and they've screwed up so many ways, has to be on management. That was 12th goal/10th pt in my scoring, near 7% success rate for opponents. Vomit.

"Galaxy fans have to be asking where this has been all year!" This awful defense has been in Kansas City all year. You're welcome. Can't wait to have a real right back. (And left back. And...) #SportingKC

That pass was the best thing Charlie Savage has ever done in a #ReadingFC shirt! And fantastic touches by the older guys at the other end.

Man marking portion of our corner defense is proving useless. Savage (like last corner goal we conceded) was just watching his man from steps behind get a header from middle of 6 yd box. Coaching philosophy of how they mark needs to change. Cannot defend a corner from behind your man. #ReadingFC

Sunset in the Nelson-Atkins sculpture park

Missed you, Pfeifer. #KCBaby

Elizabeth Ball has been excellent tonight (and possibly the unsung hero of the season). #KCBaby

There's no explanation for that no call on the Vancouver keeper picking up the ball except ref cowardice. #SportingKC

Glad that Chawinga scored to stay atop the golden boot race, but looking ahead to the playoffs, I'd rather Bia to have scored (one of the 2 great goal opportunities she's had since coming on). #KCBaby

Best thing that could come from tonight, even beyond the shield, would be chemistry between Sentnor and Debinha. #KCBaby

Leyton's entire progression to winning that corner that netted them a free header (terrible from Ehibhatiomhan) was picking on Charlie Savage, who for some reason remains undroppable. #ReadingFC

2nd reaction: more sympathy, same criticism. To start, I think both Williams & Burns were too deep at the beginning, but asuuming Burns correct, Williams starts too shaded into Ahmed's zone. He compounds that when Watson comes down by moving behind Watson in an attempt at separation. 1/4 #ReadingFC

#NWSL formed in 2012 w FCKC as a member. FCKC dissolved in 2017. #KCBaby formed in 2021. In 2024, they opened the 1st stadium built for a professional women's sports team. In 2025, the people behind me, complaining about soccer having ties, concluded: "That's why soccer doesn't grow in the US."

Thanks as always, nwsl.

Well, we're starting without a penalty so I guess they didn't look at it, which is egregiously wrong. It was clear as day from up here in 206. Should've been clearer on the pitch and in review. #KCBaby

That was a penalty on Labonta at the end of the half. I don't know the rules on var on last touch before ref rules game stopped, but she got cleaned out while heading the ball & defender got none. Otherwise, I think Izzy is going low too often and would like her to lob a few more to Bia. #KCBaby

I also have no idea what Williams is defending on 2nd goal. He can see the danger, Burns can't. He just jogs back wo/closing distance to man. Is he calling Burns backward into marking? Don't know. Been good since joining. I'm just not sure what he's thinking on 1st 2 goals conceded today. #ReadingFC

Nice win back from Elliott. Incredible pass from Wing. Incredible hustle, physicality, and panache from Marriott. That's gonna be deflating for Barnsley. Let's keep on #ReadingFC

First reaction: Williams was playing the center zone on that corner and taking little bad steps all over the just to be that tad late attacking the ball in initial spot vs the goal scorer. More misreading the ball in. Didn't get to see who should've been blocking the scorer. #ReadingFC

We've lost a lot of games deservedly this season. This one, Austin kinda came in and stole. Cause football is finishing and cause of our defensive frailities and our poor defensive principles on corners. If you won points for pluck alone, we'd have a few more, but alas. #SportingKC

If Sporting had a guy making near post runs for all their near post corners, maybe that could've been us. #SportingKC

Montes has a gigantic boot. Have to give him a run down the line when he gets in trouble on the right. #SportingKC

Sherrone's game management was a big factor in this loss (& his winless record when losing at half). We probably lose anyway, but hard to find another gear with the choke on. (Is that how engines work?) His conservatism ended up rewarding him at the end of last year, but it can't always. #GoBlue

Klein being out has been really hurting us on the ground and there finally really hurt us in the air. Marshall slowed up/bent his route just the half beat it was off. Klein is still running. (Also, Hollenback seems bad.) #GoBlue

When I was trying to find out earlier who reffed the Michigan-New Mexico game from Saturday night, the 1st time the schools have ever played each other in football, Google AI told me there had been no recent game while showing me a poster for the game and videos from the game that I could watch.

I'm disappointed, obviously, but I'd be ever more disappointed if #SportingKC don't already have a list of potential managers pared down to a top 5 (with conversations toward making it a top 3).

Biggest offseason since the name change coming up? #SportingKC

Well, I get to see more of Ian James at least.

It's bad from Davis but it's also bad how he was coached to approach it. Moreover, it's bad steps forward from Toye to get out of his zone to chase noise, it's a bad read from Joveljic going out to the ball, it's super passive from Miller not to attack forward. #SportingKC

You can like a player and still not rate them as a regular in the league. You can be glad a rookie out of college outperforms expectations and still not think it's a good thing they're a nailed on starter in your team. #SportingKC

I can't even reckon how long I've been begging Leibold to play early crosses when he plays, and was never allowed to do under Vermes, but it's been used to wonderful effect tonight. That's his thing: Hit the cross first time (where Ndenbe should the end line). Good stuff. #SportingKC

Broadcast said "transition", but that was from a goal kick. Worked out wide & forward. First goal was off a throw. Portland was switched off for two (typically) dead balls, but you are never safe from the Current. If you don't know that for all 90 minutes, you are not beating this team. #KCBaby

Thank you, whoever the commentator is who stopped the cliche talk of Sharples changing the Current defense when she came in last season to give her credit for how much better she has played this season. She's reached a new level this year.

Dang. Bia deserved for Chawinga to score that goal. #KCBaby

That was the #ReadingFC special from the Current on that corner. After getting a clean shot from it, hopefully they have something to work off of it later.

Maybe needless to say that was a perfect start, but Portland put no pressure at all on that throw in: perfect box out by Bia w/no reaction from her defender and then no one rushing to Izzy, might as well be a free kick for how easy for her to cross. Excellent from Wheels to simply bury it. #KCBaby

The Most Lethal Outside the Box Scorer We've Ever Seen #ReadingFC