PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- The saying goes, “A wounded animal is the most dangerous.”

It might also be a good way to describe this Portland Thorns team this season.

“Front-footed, smother the opponent, dynamic, we want to be the protagonist and the aggressor,” said Portland Thorns head coach Rob Gale of his team’s playing style. “That’s what our fans demand, and that’s what we want to be as a team.”

The demands for the Thorns this year have not always been easy to meet.

In the preseason, the team announced that Morgan Weaver, Nicole Payne, and Marie Muller were all out for the season with knee injuries while Sophia Wilson and Olivia Wade-Katoa would be on maternity leave. Then, rookie phenom Caiya Hanks also got bitten by the knee injury bug midseason.

Despite all of this, the team curr

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