Portland Thorns defeat Kansas Metropolis Present to win the 2022 NWSL championship

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The Portland Thorns defeated the Kansas Metropolis Present to win the 2022 Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League championship on Saturday.

The two-0 victory on the Audi Subject in Washington DC offers the Thorns their third championship in group historical past. The primary was within the league’s inaugural season in 2013 and the second in 2017.

Portland had an early lead throughout Saturday’s sport with Thorns striker Sophia Smith scoring the primary aim 4 minutes into the match.

The 22-year-old Smith turned the youngest regular-season MVP in NWSL historical past this season.

Within the second half, Kansas Metropolis’s Addisyn Merrick netted an personal aim to increase Portland’s lead.