Tag Archives: PWP
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 huge, if not an inordinately large, challenge for the Timbers. Aye, last weekend we saw a revamped starting 11 and a wholesome result with […]
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 comparison against my match preview… Houston lost their first game away to FC Dallas and they lost this game too… Houston didn’t really behave […]
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 has and should continue to be the focus for the Timbers as they return to JELD-WEN field this weekend to take on Houston. My […]
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 four matches and for two of those games it looked (based on statistics) like they didn’t even show up. And the tale of woe […]
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 intent at the end of this year was to try and establish an “index” (of sorts) that had more value than the MLS Castrol […]
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 Timbers Official Press Release On what coming back to tie means to the team… “It’s a huge win for everybody involved with the Portland […]
Portland Timbers – Evaluating the Impact of Montreal
Defense First; this is a tried and true method to minimize risk and maximize opportunity for at least one point in any game of soccer. John Spencer advocated he would leverage direct attacking football to get three points. He failed and got sacked last year because of that. Caleb Porter has come in and advocated […]
Portland Timbers – Anticipating the Impact of Montreal
Game two of Port-er-land Timbers football kicks off tomorrow night. In preparation for the game here are some thoughts and observations for your consideration as PTFC prepare for Montreal. 1. How might this game take shape? For me I don’t see the same level of ‘nervous’ energy unfolding in the first 30 minutes like the […]
Regular Season Begins Sunday – Final thoughts as PTFC prepare for NYRB
Bout bloody time the pre-season is over; tons of activity in both player transactions and on the pitch changes in tactics and starters between last year and this year. It’s not like some wholesale changes weren’t predicted back in October; this team was, after all, third worst in total record, third worst in goals scored […]
Timbers 1 – AIK 1 – Portland dominates PWP
This was just a flat out, superb, closing game to the pre-season for Portland Timbers this year. For the nay-sayers, yes it was pre-season but the total domination by Portland (especially in the second half) laid bare the capability of this team when it can fire on all cylinders with ball possession and control. If […]