Monday, September 26, 2016

Houston these Timbers have a big problem!

 I mean a serious one, especially if they cannot perform as they do at home, were they have shown some invincibility over its foes, but when it comes to play on the road, the Portland Boys are seeing the blues match after match.


As this campaign, the PTFC has been the only squad in league play that has not posted a win on the road, and showing off a not so decorous record of 0-9-6.

This is something to be concerned, after the Rose City squad currently being above the red line for the postseason and with last week win over Philadelphia at Providence Park. They leapfrogged the SKC squad, to claim and move into fifth place.

On this weekend, the Timbers experienced a different story, when they came to Houston and posing an all-around momentum of beating a tough foe in the Union and coming to play the Dynamo so far submerged in last place of the Western Division.

For the squad of the Lone Star State, being out of contention for the league postseason, the role taken so far by the Houston squad is just to salvage their last games in this campaign with notable wins and play the always-annoying role of a spoiler.

Nothing to lose for the Dynamo Boys in these stages of league play, whomever they play, and their sole aim is to derail and rot the drive of any of the squads they face, mainly the ones involved in the postseason race.

Coming into Houston, the PTFC aims were to edge their first win of the campaign, very well after beating the Dynamo at home in a very contested match to a 3-2 final score.
The problem was that the PTFC understated their competition. 

When squads come to BBVA Stadium, and despite the Orangemen low profile campaign, still these Boys can play a tough and mean ball. As their new man at the helm, who lately has injected some passion and enthusiasm to the Texas squad and prevailed in their latest matches with a series of positive results.

Houston has played with all around pride and spirit, the visiting Portland squad played the opposite and seeing a meltdown once again in its initial eleven and beaten by an inspired Dynamo.

For the Timbers Manager Caleb Porter seeking answers to many questions of how, if and what will he have to do to turn his squad around, if at the last minute things go from bad to worst and lose what his squad fought for all campaign of being above the red line.

Not fair, if everything crumbles at the end, because of a group of individuals not caring or putting on their best of efforts together, especially when their pass into the grand fete is just a few matches away and can be loss with a blink of an eye.

If we examine the takeaways in five, ten, or twenty steps, what difference will it make at its end, the solution in on that initial eleven put on the field by Manager Porter who has been a total saint and despite the disappointment, and he still goes strong.

A problem indeed, is what the PTFC is going through but it can generate solutions in the short term, erase the negatives, and put on a show of a game in their upcoming compromises call them league or CCL.

At the end no problem here as this squad is poised, for much higher and important ventures to come and one thing for sure they will prevail, despite the oddities out there, this squad is a true fighter.


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