Timbers

Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News via AP For the second time in five days, the Portland Timbers earned a halftime road lead. And for the second time in five days, they let it slide away. Thanks to the suffocating Texas heat, fatigue carried over from the weekend, a simple lack of desire to win an […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers followed up their best win of the season two Sundays ago against Toronto with a major letdown — letting a first half lead slip at BC Place in a 2-1 loss to the Vancouver Whitecaps. But the team’s attention quickly turned to Dallas, where the Timbers are readying to […]

Ben Nelms/The Canadian Press via AP For an hour at BC Place on Saturday, the mojo that the Portland Timbers’ road to a home win last Sunday against Toronto FC held. Despite plenty of Vancouver Whitecaps pressure, the Timbers led through a beautiful team goal and a series of phenomenal saves from Jake Gleeson. Then, […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers got their biggest win since MLS Cup last Sunday at Providence Park, riding tremendous performances from Diego Valeri and Jake Gleeson to a 2-1 win over Eastern Conference favorites Toronto FC. Now the Timbers, close to full strength for the first time since March, will try to string together […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers Between Will Johnson returning to Portland and the promise of two of MLS’ best teams going nose-to-nose on a triumph of a day Providence Park, it wasn’t hard to surmise that Sunday afternoon’s nationally televised tilt between the Timbers and Toronto FC could be a very good one. In the end, though, […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The Portland Timbers’ Sunday matinee matchup with Toronto FC (12:30 PM, TV on ESPN) is about as big as a Spring MLS game gets — a meeting of the defending champions and league’s most expensive team in the caldron that is Providence Park. But for the Timbers and their fans, Sunday will […]

AP Photo/Steven Senne For 88 minutes on a sleepy Wednesday night at Gillette Stadium, the Timbers did everything right. They defended with poise and commitment, scrapped a goal, and stood minutes away from winning back-to-back games for the first time in the 2016 MLS season. Then, a series of small breakdowns undid much of the […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After a well-deserved week off, the Timbers are back in action with a tricky Wednesday night tilt in Foxborough, Massachusetts against the New England Revolution (4:30 PM, TV on KPTV). The Timbers will be without Diego Valeri, who is suspended after being controversially sent off against San Jose, but could get both […]

Portland Timbers In a game that had it all — and turned on a dime from pedestrian to unhinged — there was just one constant. The Portland Timbers were good. Damn good. And after more than 100 minutes of soccer on Saturday night at Providence Park, they’d deservedly clinched their first victory since Opening Day […]

David Blair – Portland Timbers FC Six games into the 2016 season, the defending champion Portland Timbers have won just once — on opening day more than a month ago — and currently hold the second worst goal differential in all of MLS. On Wednesday night, the Timbers were humiliated at home by FC Dallas, […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers After the many trials and tribulations of the last two weeks, the hope — the expectation, really — was that the Portland Timbers would take the opportunity afforded by a rare Wednesday night tilt to get stuck into FC Dallas and get their 2016 season back on track. Instead, the Timbers face-planted. […]

Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland Timbers The conversation around MLS was hijacked late on Sunday night, when the LA Galaxy’s Nigel de Jong stomped on the ankle of Timbers’ star Darlington Nagbe in one of the most gruesome challenges the league has seen in the last five years. In the long-run, the incident will serve as a landmark […]