Indeed, Major League
Soccer utmost squads, its Pacific Northwest ones, that make the league tremble with
their Derbies and make up one of the most contested of rivalries all campaign
long.
They are heading for the
league grand fete of the postseason and for the first time ever will be seeing the
Portland Timbers, Seattle Sounders and Vancouver Whitecaps go for the ultimate
of glories, altogether.
Very well the Caps
being in a first round bye while the Emerald City Boys will face at home a resilient
and defending champion in the Tinsel Town squad of the LA Galaxy and its start-studded
initial eleven.
In addition, for the Rose
City squads receiving one of its toughest and difficult rivals they faced all campaign
long in the Midwest Boys almighty SKC.
Looking a bit challenging
for the Sounders and Timbers, their Bosses hopefully they can mount a nice strategy
to survive their first test and continue on their mission for conference semifinals.
For Manager Caleb Porter
as his Timbers will be one match at a time, will try to put on a display of
wonderfully displayed football as in their last three matches lately, to try
and seal their pass, keeping the fight and their winning momentum.
For Sigi Schmidt
Sounders always left in the edge in every campaign- that the Emerald City Boys
always stage a disappointing run in the league postseason, a win over the defending
champions can be a maybe or the key to a Dallas showdown.
For Carl Robinson the
Welshman and his Caps is just a matter of who will be his next rival and with a
face off with their Cascadia rivals in the Timbers, maybe we can see another
heated and most disputed of derbies between these two.
Since the inception
of three of these region known as the Pacific Northwest, always was in the way
for two of these squad’s, as in their early year’s their modest performances by
a couple of them, wasn’t completing the trifecta.
Now they are the talk
of the league and very well all eyes are on them of who will face kin these squads
as a Seattle versus Portland or a Vancouver versus Seattle will be the Western
Conference semifinals that will be the biggest question of them all.
Still this squad armed
like an armada and despite some of them missing key players due to suspensions
or injuries, no one discards an all-around Cascadia final.
First things first
and not getting ahead of time, as Thursday both Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders
will have the joy of hosting the first leg of the payoff as home squads and
with a slight advantage over their foes.
Undoubtedly luck and good
set of strategies will play an important role in these three squads, as who
will be the first one to net the MLS Cup to their halls as well earned those
always coveted bragging Cascadia rights.
Portland Timbers,
Seattle Sounders and Vancouver Whitecaps the best of Lucks!
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