This may be the key contrast for the Portland Timbers ahead of Wednesday’s visit to Real Salt Lake (6:30pm PT, ROOT SPORTS): the team’s current form versus the performance during the final minutes of the teams’ last meeting.
That current form has Major League Soccer’s Western Conference co-leaders on their longest winning streak in two years, having won five in a row as part of a 6-1-1 run that has vaulted them from the middle of the standings.
Shortly before that run started, though, Real Salt Lake took a shock point on August 29 at Providence Park – shocking not because RSL is incapable of that result, but because of the way they achieved it.