Stumptown Footy · Apr 2, 2021
The Timbers’ first test of 2021? Avoid getting CONCACAF’d
PORTLAND TIMBERS / CRAIG MITCHELLDYER If you’ve been watching MLS and North American soccer enough, it’s a verb that has been burned into your lexicon. It has been the bane of every MLS team that has ever attempted to win the current version of the CONCACAF Champions League. It’s something that’s impossible to exactly describe, yet you know it immediately when you see it.
It’s “getting CONCACAF’d.” And it’s the first pitfall of 2021 that the Portland Timbers will have to be on the lookout for.