Monthly Archives: May 2013
Match Analysis – Portland Timbers 5 – Wilmington Hammerheads 1
Piquionne packs a punch as Porter’s Portland pulverize Hammerheads as they head home hoping highlights stay hidden – and to make matters marvelous Seattle Sounders “slither”, slink, slide and slip soundlessly back to Puget Sound… Note – Double entendre courtesy of @theaxepdx and “slithers” being a worthy recommendation by Butch York (Timbers Army Northern […]
Match Preview – Portland Timbers vs Wilmington Hammerheads
Portland Timbers return home to a jazzed JELD-WEN in search of their first Cup win under the helm of Caleb Porter – in the words of Caleb earlier today ‘we are in it to win it’… That’s a great concept and the balance of playing top-flight players in the first round for MLS teams is […]
Interview with Caleb Porter at Training today….
Interview at training today with Caleb Porter… some thoughts – to paraphrase… Likely we will see “other starters” / “key reserves” (perhaps?) Zizzo, Valencia, Zemanski, Miller, and others Wednesday evening – important to sustain full squad as long MLS season unfolds… Cup Games just as critical as regular season games – it takes four to […]
Match Analysis – Portland Timbers 2 – DC United nil
From the get-go this game was going to be different – not because it’s a new team with another new center-back; I think we are past that point now. No; this game was different given the starting line-up and bog-standard (bucket 4-4-2) Portland offered up from kickoff. To be sure some older purists might […]
Match Preview – Portland Timbers vs DC United
East Coast bound as Portland ventures off to RFK Stadium to play some Football in a Football Stadium? I’m not sure I’ve tracked another away game that Portland has had in the near past that has so much going for it in terms of going in there and taking 3 points… a curse? not likely… […]
Match Analysis – Portland Timbers 2 – Vancouver Whitecaps 2
The dust has settled – Game one of three against Vancouver is in the past – Great result and perhaps one Timbers fans can look back on as being a pivot point for Portland this year? I don’t say that tongue in cheek – there are some indicators in this game that may be […]
Match Preview Portland Timbers vs Vancouver Whitecaps
While Portland venture to the great white north, with fresh legs, for their second of 6 Cascadia Cup clashes this year Vancouver is returning home to an inviting atmosphere after a grueling 90 minutes of (nil-nil) football in Stade Saputo Wednesday evening. So does that downplay the value of this early season Cascadia Cup […]
Match Analysis – Portland Timbers 3 – Chivas USA nil
The word “comprehensive” is sometimes overused in sports punditry but for this game it’s perhaps an understatement. Before getting into the grist of this effort here’s my recommendations for reading this week… In case you missed it here’s a report from Mike Donovan on the game with Soccer by Ives… And here’s another ‘intriguing and worthy of […]
Match Preview – Portland Timbers vs Chivas USA
The first of three games with two teams going head to head that are traveling in completely different directions; Chivas are win-less in four straight and Portland are unbeaten in eight straight. This is a great match to build confidence in the attack and the cards are stacked almost too good. Here’s some topics and […]
Match Analysis – Portland Timbers 1 – FC Dallas 1
In offering today’s match analysis I’m not going to repeat what most of you have already read by other great columnists here in Portland – Instead here’s a link or three to articles I’ve read that already provide a good synopsis of the game in various different ways: In summary… Dan Itel does a good job covering games […]