Six Degrees: The March Goes On

Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images1) I’ve seen a few people describing the Timbers as bad for the first 20 minutes of Saturday night’s game with NYCFC. I’m gonna disagree. We were bad for far longer than 20 minutes. I’m gonna go ahead and say we were shit for pretty much the entire first half.

What particular kind of shit, you ask? The same kind of shit we were in the season’s first two games, way back in March. The same kind of shit we were for great stretches of 2019. Saturday night’s first half was a depressing, discouraging, infuriating return to the Timbers at their worst.

I wasn’t too upset that we were playing defensively. I didn’t mind that our defense packed it in deep. Absorb…