(9) Portland Timbers (5,7,5, 20 points) vs (11) St. Louis (3,4,8, 17 points) Saturday June 8, 2024 KO 5:30 PM PST/ 8:30 PM EST CITYPARK, Saint Louis, Missouri   Portland Timbers Briefly I give Phil Neville an A for extra effort. The man simply doesn’t give up injecting that positivity to his starting eleven and making all the right moves with his side come game time. What a game last Saturday night against the Houston Dynamo! Coming from behind and never surrendering despite the control the Texas side had over the Timbers lately, in the end the teams shared the spoils. Manager Neville ha ..read more

The Portland Timbers were back at Providence Park for their third match of the week against, this time taking on the Houston Dynamo. Portland has back to back wins coming into this match and are looking for a 9 point week.  Cladio Bravo is back from injury and in the starting lineup for Portland giving head coach Phil Neville another option for rotating players. The first half started off slow and disjointed for Portland. In the 8th minute Juan Mosquera kicked the ball out giving Houston an unnecessary corner kick. A series of clearances that  resulted in 3 corner opportunities for H ..read more

   Timbers (5,7,4, 19 points) vs (8) Houston Dynamo (6,6,3, 21 points) Saturday June 1, 2024 KO 7:30 PM PST/ 10:30 PM EST Providence Park, Portland, Oregon   Portland Timbers Briefly Suddenly, manager Phil Neville has found a winning formula as well a starting eleven that’s solid in defense; and with Araujo, Mosquera, Miller and Zuparic–these latter ones as the center back– we have the long-awaited solution for this team defensive woes. With Evander leading the offensive game alongside Felipe Mora, Antony, and newly acquired Rodriguez, this team is starting to lift it up a notc ..read more

Photo Credit Portland Timbers F.C. Immense is the ideal moniker for the Portland Timbers’ win over a renewed Austin FC and on the road at Q2 Stadium back in Austin, Texas. The Portland Timbers delivered with a win and a clean sheet courtesy of its backup keeper James Pantemis. With Evander becoming a regular on every Team of the Matchday on Matchday 17, the Portland Timbers got a much-needed win and are in the postseason spots on the Western Conference. Evander scored in injury time before the end of the first half, James Pantemis stopped a penalty kick against Austin star striker Sebastian ..read more

Evander on the ball. Photo by Diego Diaz   (10) Portland Timbers (4,7,4, 16 points) vs (5) Austin FC (6,4,5, 23 points) Wednesday May 29, 2024 KO 5:30 PM PST/ 8:30 PM EST Q2 Stadium, Austin, Texas   Portland Timbers Briefly Wow! What a win and amazing show of force shown to the visitors of Sporting Kansas City with a one-of-a-kind and raucous win over the visiting Midwest side that’s not playing their best football lately. The defensive formation sent by manager Phil Neville featuring Miguel Araujo, Dario Zuparic, Kamal Miller and Juan Mosquera, became the ideal one and despite the ..read more

Felipe Mora celebrating his goal. Photo by Diego Diaz   Manager Phil Neville is starting to show his authority with his players and selecting his starting initial eleven and delivering much needed wins for the Rose City side and at home where it counts! With forward Felipe Mora on the bench and Evander in the starting eleven for Team of the Matchday 16, the Portland Timbers delivered a one-of-a-kind win thanks to its starting eleven and the Timbers Army. Yes, with Felipe Mora scoring his sixth goal of the season in the 51st minute of the second half and Evander later with a controversia ..read more

Timbers Army Photo by Diego Diaz The Portland Timbers took on Sporting Kansas City on Veteran Appreciation Night at Providence Park. The atmosphere was tense in the stadium with the Timbers desperately needing a chance to create some positive momentum and confidence that would come from consecutive home wins. Timbers head coach Phil Neville made some interesting changes to the line up moving Kamal Miller from center back to left back with Araujo and Zuparic as the two center backs. Juan Moquera played on the right to fill out the back line. David Ayala got the start next to Diego Chara and p ..read more

(11) Portland Timbers (3,7,4, 13 points) vs (13) Sporting Kansas City (2,6,5, 11 points) Saturday May 25, 2024 KO 7:30 PM PST/ 10:30 PM EST Providence Park, Portland, Oregon   Portland Timbers Briefly This cannot continue with these embattled Portland Timbers being just a one-half team, that they play amazing in one half and in the other half conceding. Games are played in ninety minutes. Again, I do recall the efforts of manager Phil Neville to turn this team around for the better, but somehow some players aren’t playing to their standards or being too laid back. Defense wins games this ..read more

We present to you something that is long overdue. As you are able to guess, we do not have people at all MLS and NWSL venues. If you do not see your team here, we have a story on them elsewhere on the site. Therefore, we present a brief summary of those matches here in random order. We’ll start with the NWSL where a former teammate haunted her former club: Gotham FC 2-1 Chicago Red Stars:  Ella Stevens scored against her former tam in the 90th minute to give Gotham the 2-1 win. Lynn Williams surpassed Sam Kerr for the all-lead goal scoring mark with 79 in the 57th minute to give Gotham th ..read more

Click to view slideshow. Portland Timbers were able to achieve a much needed win with a thrilling four-goal second half come back in tale of two polar opposite halves. Timbers and Earthquakes were locked in a 2-2, till a VAR decision in the 90th minute gave Mora a penalty kick and made the score 3-2, and Rodriguez would lock the win finishing a counter attack in the 10th and last minute of stoppage time. The Timbers haven’t won after trailing by two or more goals since June 26, 2016, in a 3-2 win against Houston Dynamo FC. The Portland Timbers arrived to the match in full crisis mode after the ..read more