If a team is lucky, an early-season game will look this: like a vision the technical staff drew up on a whiteboard before the season started. Five goals. Complete control. Scarcely a decent chance conceded. There was a point in the first half when Portland Timbers defender Dario Zuparic had to clear a shot off his team’s goal line, but that moment was an exception, by far. By that point, the Timbers were already up two goals on a night that would end 5-0, with a bevy of near misses over the second half meaning the margin could have been greater.
FARLEY | Vision of Timbers' 2021 comes through against Marathón
