After what wound up being a wild 3-2 loss to LAFC, Portland Timbers head coach Giovanni Savarese shared an insight into how the team was trying to adjust after finding themselves down three goals in the second half.
“I mean we were trying to find, you know, the best version of ourselves,” Savarese shared postgame.
Indeed, for about an hour on Saturday afternoon the Timbers were decidedly not the best version of themselves. Listless on set pieces on one end of the pitch and toothless in front of goal at the other, Portland had a first half to forget as they conceded their first two goals of the 2023 campaign.