Abe Asher

Orlando City SC In the 80th minute on Sunday afternoon, on the very final leg of their marathon season-opening road trip, the Portland Timbers were leading Orlando City 2-0 and headed quite satisfyingly for their first victory of 2018. Seven minutes later, they’d thrown it all away. First, Orlando rookie Chris Mueller flicked a near-post […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers led the Chicago Fire for more than 70 minutes on Saturday afternoon in Bridgeview, but couldn’t close the door on what would have been their first win of the season — leaving two points on the table in a game that finished even at 2-2. Overall, though, the good […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After picking up their first point of the season last weekend against Dallas, the Portland Timbers are in Bridgeview, IL where they will face the struggling Chicago Fire on Saturday afternoon at Toyota Park (3:00 pm, TV on KPTV). The Opponent The Fire were one of MLS’s best stories last year, but […]

Portland Timbers It took a beautiful solo goal from Sebastian Blanco and a nervous final fifteen minutes, but the Portland Timbers stopped the bleeding on Saturday afternoon in Frisco — digging deep for a 1-1 draw against FC Dallas to get off the snide for the 2018 season. It was a performance — and a […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers A full two weeks after being humiliated by the New York Red Bulls’ second team in a 4-0 loss, the Portland Timbers will retake the field this weekend in Frisco, TX against FC Dallas (12:30 pm, TV on UniMás and Twitter). Timbers boss Giovani Savarese has had plenty of time to evaluate […]

USA Today Sports/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers’ season-opening loss to the LA Galaxy a week ago wasn’t pretty, but was excusable: new coach, new system, strong opponent, etc. The absolute hairball they coughed up in Harrison against the New York Red Bulls on Saturday night? It was a world apart. The Timbers were drubbed 4-0 […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After a flat start to the Giovani Savarese era last Sunday night in Carson, the Portland Timbers head East to Harrison, NJ to take on the New York Red Bulls in their second game of the 2018 season on Saturday night (4:00 pm, TV on ROOT Sports). The Timbers will be looking […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Giovani Savarese era begins on Sunday night in Carson, CA, where the Portland Timbers will face the revamped LA Galaxy in the nightcap of Week 1 of the 2018 MLS season (7:00 p.m., TV on Fox Sports 1). For both teams, the offseason saw significant change give way to significant hope. […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers With the start of the 2018 MLS season closing in, the Portland Timbers feel refreshed. There’s a new coach in Giovani Savarese, a bucketload of new, mainly young players to complement the core that finished first in the Western Conference last year, and a competition for starting jobs across the lineup. Along […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Though it started with two seismic departures, the Portland Timbers have had themselves what appears to be an awfully effective offseason. A week into camp, with Giovanni Savarese at the controls, the club’s roster is in good shape. Peruvian international Andy Polo has arrived to fill Darlington Nagbe’s vacated spot on the […]