New York City FC fell to a first home defeat in five months at the hands of Portland Timbers on Saturday evening.
Here’s Managing Editor Mark Booth with five things we learned from a frustrating encounter in the Bronx…
Shake it Off
It’s never nice to lose, especially on home turf, but this defeat was far from terminal to NYCFC’s ambitions for 2017.
Patrick Vieira expressed his pride at the attitude and personality demonstrated by his players as they put everything on the line to try and salvage something from the game following Diego Valeri’s 44th minute strike.