Timbers Postgame: A very special night

If you were asked to pick your favorite thing about the Portland Timbers’ signature win over the Seattle Sounders Friday night, you’d almost have too many options to choose from.

The electric Providence Park atmosphere. The epic Tifo. An uncommon win against Seattle at home. Winning the Cascadia Cup for the first time since 2017. Keeping the Sounders in tenth place. Sebastian Blanco being Sebastian bloody Blanco. The Timbers players celebrating with the Timbers Army.

This video released by the team the next day:

I could go on.

Whatever your favorite part was, Timbers head coach Giovanni Savarese’s favorite part was that he saw his team show up and compete for a full 90 minutes. “I saw a team…