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Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers With just a month-and-a-half remaining in the MLS regular season, the Western Conference playoff race remains wide open — and the Portland Timbers, in the thick of that race, will have a rare opportunity on Saturday to steal three points on the road when they take on a Houston Dyanmo team winless […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers There are no certainties in Major League Soccer, but, this fixture is coming pretty close being one. The Portland Timbers had beaten the Colorado Rapids at Providence Park in seven straight games coming into this season, and, on Saturday night, the Timbers made it eight straight with little fuss — scoring an […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers With a full week off after their draw at New England last weekend, the Portland Timbers should be a rejuvenated team when they return to Providence Park on Saturday night to take on the Colorado Rapids in what should be one of the easiest games remaining on their 2018 schedule (7:30 p.m., […]

Portland Timbers Minus Diego Valeri, Diego Chara, and four more who started Wednesday night’s win over Toronto, the Portland Timbers traveled cross-country to New England, on three days’ rest, and did themselves proud in a 1-1 draw. It was not, by any means, a great game of soccer. In a contest with more than 30 […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After snapping a four-game losing streak with a 2-0 win on Wednesday night against Toronto FC, the Portland Timbers are readying for their sixth game in the last 22 days: a matchup in Massachusetts with the struggling New England Revolution (4:30 p.m., TV on KPDX). The Opponent It’s been a tale of […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Losers of four straight games, not 72 hours removed from a devastating defeat against Seattle, the Portland Timbers retook the field at Providence Park wearied but in desperate need of a win against Toronto FC. For more than an hour, that victory did not appear to be on the horizon. The Timbers […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Losers of four straight and below the playoff red line for the first time in months, pressure is quickly mounting on the Portland Timbers to get their season back on track. Their opponent tonight at Providence Park? Defending MLS Cup champion Toronto FC (7:30 p.m., TV on ROOT Sports). The Opponent After […]

Sam Ortega/Portland Timbers Some days, you can feel the air around Providence Park pulsate with energy and excitement for hours before a game. This was one of those days. The Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders were meeting for the third and final time this year, on a late August day that felt like fall, That […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers It’s the final meeting of the year between the Portland Timbers and the Seattle Sounders, and it could hardly be set up more dramatically. The Timbers, having gone 15 games unbeaten between mid-April and early August, have now lost three straight. The Sounders, having hardly won any games for the season’s first […]

Portland Timbers With very few exceptions, the Portland Timbers and Sporting Kansas City combine to play a very particular type of game: close, physical, intense, and unyielding. On paper, at least, Saturday night’s meeting in the heartland should have been one of those contests. But it wasn’t. Instead, it was a cakewalk. The Timbers, at […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Coming off of their most lopsided loss since mid-March on Wednesday night in D.C., the Portland Timbers face a short turnaround ahead of a crucial match against fellow Western Conference contender Sporting Kansas City on Saturday night at Children’s Mercy Park (5:30 p.m., TV on KPDX). The Opponent It’s usually at about […]

Portland Timbers For 125 straight days, the Portland Timbers didn’t lose a single soccer game. In the last five days, they’ve lost two. The first of those losses, at home against Vancouver last Saturday night, was forgivable: the Timbers dominated the game, but were doomed by a pair of individual errors from two of their […]