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Match Preview – Portland Timbers vs San Jose Sunday Evening – JELD-WEN
For starters... The long trek through this season doesn't get any easier and these next two games (back to back) against the Supporters Shield winners from last year will be a […]
Match Analysis – Portland Timbers To Date – Possession with Purpose
As promised my updated match analysis on Possession with Purpose taking in results from this weekend to plot trends, tendencies and some additional tidbits for your consideration... Tidbits on Houston: quick […]
Timbers Get First Win! – Portland 2 Houston – Nil
Party in Portland - We'll sing for you Timbers till you finish the fight- and so goes the Timbers Army last night and many others on the edge of their seat […]
Match Preview – Timbers vs Dynamo
To start... Just a whole lot of grist for the mill this week from the MLS articles by Firchau; three of them to read... in case you've missed them here is […]
Trends, Tendencies, and Tidbits about the Timbers to date
Well if you've been following the Merritt Paulson series on MLS you should know by now some of the internals behind the scenes. Here's the latest by Firchau on Part 2... […]
Timbers Take One Point in Draw with Colorado
That's the headline but the real story here, in my view, is the continued inability of Portland to score the first goal or for that matter the only goal. Defense first […]
Preview – Portland Timbers travel to Colorado
Barring blizzard conditions the opportunity probably couldn't get any better for Portland in this away game at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Colorado have taken just 1 point out of their first […]
Possession With Purpose – The Holy Grail of Soccer Team Statistics?
Possession With Purpose - the search for the holy grail of statistical indices that might have value or goodness in tracking team efficiency in attack and defense. If you recall my […]
Cascadia Cup Clash – Timbers Player Evaluations
An interesting side offered up by Caleb Porter in his inaugural Cascadia Cup clash - not quite what we saw at home against New York or Montreal but just as […]
Wallace late equalizer Soundly Sinks Sounders hopes of Three Points
To be sure - this team is NOT like the team from last year. Wallace summed it up best for me in all the post-game match quotes provided in the Portland […]