SkoPurp No. 117: Chicago and Gotham Rewinds and Angel City Preview

SkoPurp No. 117: Chicago and Gotham Rewinds and Angel City Preview

From SkoPurp Soccer: An Orlando Pride PawedCast by The Mane Land

March 31, 2026 · 41 min · Season 3 · Episode 117

About this episode

The episode reviews the Orlando Pride's recent matches against Chicago Stars and Gotham FC, highlighting player performances and discussing upcoming challenges.

It was a long, difficult road trip, but the Orlando Pride return to the City Beautiful with four out of a possible six points after a dominant win over the Chicago Stars and a scoreless draw against defending champion Gotham FC. The Pride have played well this season but started slowly in front of goal. But now the team has put together three consecutive results, and with a little better final product, this is a team that can cook. We look back at the excellent performance at Chicago, as Jacquie Ovalle twinkled among the Stars, Barbra Banda kept burning bright, and Hannah Anderson went supernova on her old team. (Have I exhausted the star puns yet? I admit to nothing.) We look back at our score predictions and select our Player of the Match. We didn't have any goals to break down from the Gotham match, but we discussed the difficulty of staying on the road for a second game, the physicality of how Gotham FC defends Banda, and the joy of keeping a second straight clean sheet. Plus, a look back at our predictions (correct result, incorrect score) and our Player of the Match vote is split. Our mailbagbox had questions about unused substitutions, Julie Doyle's hair, and more…

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Host: The Mane Land

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Organizations: Chicago Stars, Gotham FC

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