The second and final meeting this season between the Portland Timbers and Houston Dynamo Saturday (5:30pm PT, FOX 12 PLUS) puts Giovanni Savarese’s team back at the site of last year’s nightmare, where a 0-0 result in the first leg of the teams’ Western Conference semifinals didn’t doom the Timbers, but the health the team carried back from BBVA Compass Stadium nearly condemn them to an early exit.
Diego Chara ended up lost for the playoffs and into this season, breaking his foot in the first half of that matchup. Sebastián Blanco was already sidelined after an accident at home.