Tonight’s Portland Timbers defeat at the Montréal Impact may go down as one of those “schedule losses” we talked about this morning, but for a stretch of the second half from Stade Saputo, it looked like Portland was the more likely team to claim a 2-1 result. Instead, it was the second goal of the night from 21-year-old Nigerian Orji Okwonkwo that decided the match, leaving those reasons for hope the Timbers had cultivated while the score was 1-1 as moments that will be forgotten.
“In the second half, we just established ourselves, and we felt pretty good,” head coach Giovanni Savarese said after the match.