The Portland Timbers are down bad right now. They just lost 6-2 to the Seattle Sounders, which is just about the last team that Portland would ever want to lose to. As our own Sam Svilar described it, giant multi-goal losses have become an all-too-common problem for the Timbers, who have significantly more losses by three goals or more than any MLS team this year.
So only naturally, the Timbers have to follow up a match that was ... let’s just say difficult ... with a grueling road trip where they face off against five teams that have already beaten them this season.