After the high of winning the MLS is Back tournament back in August, the Portland Timbers have had more than a few come-back-to-earth moments. There was the 3-0 loss to the Seattle Sounders to start things off, the disappointing tie to Real Salt Lake to follow that, Sebastian Blanco’s torn ACL in the second Seattle matchup and, most recently, a 4-2 loss to the out-of-form Los Angeles Football Club.
But as our very own C.I. DeMann wrote in Six Degrees this week, the Timbers aren’t necessarily playing horribly.