Just one goal is what
the Seattle Sounders needed to edge a Portland Timbers squad that despite a
good game put in display, at the end their efforts turn into an all-around
disappointment.
As Portland Boss in
his post game interview stating his frustrations for the lack of results and
despite his efforts to find, a positive solution, those results are still missing.
At times, he looks
like he is running out of options, despite putting his best of strategies in
place and now having his initial eleven complete, the results in their favor are
becoming hard to come.
If matches won with
statistics, the Portland squad would be the victor today!
The tale of the tape
shows off a total of nineteen shoots attempted by the Timbers over eight of
their hosts, with the first half showing off fifteen, if any of these would
been on target, this contest would had a different story.
I mean, overall the
Portland Timbers had seven shots blocked and three on target over nine off
target that tells you something not right in Rose City game as well in its top play-makers.
Many state that when
Valeri or Nagbe are on the DL this club struggles; very well the absence of
Chara was another burden for them, which I doubt it, as this is a team effort
and not a collective one.
The need to depend on
just one player should not be an issue in every match played by the PTFC doing
a game without any momentum or hunger and lacking a drive to excel as done in
the opening of this campaign.
As in this match the
likes of Diego Valeri and Faneando Adi, totally neutralized and not allowed to
display the game they are more comfortable as well, Sebastian Blanco not taking
advantage of several opportunities he had.
Despite Caleb Porter
moves and strategies the Cheesmaster puts in every match, at the end his
results turned up to be a total failure, as well stated in the postgame
interview of stating his disappointment for him, players and followers alike.
So far five matches
this squad is winless and three of those are losses very ugly ones were they
received eight goals sending a message of this club once again seeing a repeat
of the 2016 campaign of a disastrous meltdown in its defensive backfield.
Is another encore of
that campaign making a comeback, hopefully not as the club is looking forward
to reinforce its most vulnerable of spots and possibly try to salvage in what
looked like a stellar campaign.
There is plenty of
time and for sure, manager Caleb Porter will addressee all of his squad recent
series of oddities his squad is encountering lately with an immediate solution,
patience is a virtue but in a campaign seen as the most contested with every
match disputed.
Very well, with its
foes above the red line now making a move toward the top, this squad mentality
is if they are playing good, we have to do the same but better!
Losing is a hard thing
to swallow, but in a Derby, that hurts and with both of your Cascadia foes
behind by just two points, the pressure builds up for the Portland squad and
with the most crucial part of the schedule coming.
At the end these
losses are a way to build a criterion for the Portland squad, one to tight more
its defense to not concede an early goal and if this happens, make it an excuse
to mount up a rally to overcome the deficit.
Where is the hunger
and passion the PTFC displayed in the early stages of this campaign, hopefully
this returns with a bang and this club closes its campaign in the top of its conference.
With this initial eleven,
this club can erase many of those disappointing afternoons and results and start
making an all-around revival in the rest of this campaign.
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