If last week brought life around the Portland Timbers back to normal, this weekend’s result took that feeling to a whole new realm. Winning three in a row feels a special no matter the context, but after five straight losses? It makes you reconsider your world.
All the gloom and doom those around the Timbers had to consider three weeks ago? Of course, that was the reality of a team that was 0-5-1, at the time. We had to live in that space. But with the virtue of hindsight, everything now seems so reactionary, so rash – as if a three-game winning streak was so impossible.