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Yet NC's chemistry's fine-dominates NWSL. Hinkle & Erceg by domerduck

are clearly the two best defenders on the team as they are the only NC defenders who have been on multiple 2018 NWSL "team of the months". Erceg from New Zealand is gay whose girlfriend is another Courage player and Hinkle has strong religious beliefs. Hinkle also leads the NC defenders with 4 assists. Her coach has called her the best defender in the league.

They have by far the best defense in the league and the've keep very good NWSL teams with loads of USWNT and other WC team's offensive stars from even getting shots off and scoring. I would love the Thorns to have their "chemistry" the way they dominated Portland yesterday. I watched the entire game as they kept the potent Thorns offense to only 9 shots with only 2 on goal. Their only score was a perfect set play direct kick from Tobin to Horan's head. On the other side the D created so many counters that NC got off 31 shots with 10 on goal and required an incredible effort by Franch to keep theirs scores down to 2.