Bay FC vs Portland Thorns W

Bay FC and Portland recorded road wins over the other last season, with each team scoring three times in their win. Portland’s Payton Linnehan and Sophia Wilson and Bay FC’s Racheal Kundananji recorded a goal and an assist in the meeting in San Jose in May while Rachel Hill did so for Bay FC in Portland in August.

All 12 points Bay FC has earned this season have been in matches played on Saturday as it’s unbeaten in six Saturday matches in 2025 (W3 D3 L0) while losing all four non-Saturday games. In fact, dating back to the end of last season, Bay FC is unbeaten in eight straight Saturday matches (W5 D3).

Portland has won four of its last seven regular-season matches (D2 L1) including going unbeaten in five in a row in league play (W3 D2). The Thorns, who won their last league match, 4—1, at Houston on May 16, have not won consecutive regular-season matches in over a year, since a six-match run in April-May 2024.

Penelope Hocking is the first Bay FC player to score in three straight regular-season matches. This is the second time Hocking has scored in three straight league games (w/Chicago in 2024), one of three players (Barbra Banda, Temwa Chawinga) with multiple three-game scoring streaks since the start of last season.

Portland has scored five penalty goals over its last five regular-season matches, the first team in NWSL history to convert five penalties in a five-match span. Three different Thorns players (Sam Coffey, Jessie Fleming, Jayden Perry) have scored their penalties, the second team in NWSL history to have three different players score a penalty in the team’s first 10 matches of a season (Western New York in 2016).