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State of the Timbers: Halfway home ... and not happy

Sigh.

If there is any action that fully sums up the opening six games of the 2019 season for the Portland Timbers, it’s that: a deep, audible, and dejected sigh.

It’s a sigh of frustration and exasperation, mostly borne out of the results on the field. Portland stands at a record of 0-5-1, with one solitary point to their name. Even that lone positive result was frustrating: two points dropped after a last-minute, stoppage-time equalizer in Winterfell Colorado that really should have been avoided. To compound matters, the performances from the team have ranged wildly from “encouraging, but unlucky” to “decidedly pretty bad” to “oh my god, we actually got destroyed by freaking San Jose.