Heading into their home opener, Portland had been running on a fairly dry streak getting two losses and a tie in their first three games. Watching tonights match you wouldn't know that they were struggling, ultimately netting four goals to Chicago's two to come out on top.
The game was action packed from beginning to end. Portland should've gotten on the board in the eleventh minute on a corner kick sourced goal by Kenny Cooper that was ruled out because apparently the ball had gone out of play, but they soon made up for that in the twenty ninth minute thanks to a great ball through to Jorge Perlaza. Anthony Wallace then added another only minutes later off of a fantastic volley through traffic that Sean Johnson could do nothing about. The scoring resumed almost immediately after the second half begun, Perlaza adding another to Portland's tally off of a blunder by Johnson. Chicago begun to claw their way back thanks to an own goal by Portland's Eric Brunner and a shot by Pappa to was just deflected in by keeper Jake Gleeson as he was trying to knock it out, but it ultimately proved to no avail as amidst chaos in Chicago's box in the eighty fourth minute defender Dasan Robinson accidently knocks the ball inro his own net.
While I'm naturally opposed to the Timbers because I'm a Sounders fan, I can't help but acknowledge that it's great for them to get their first win of the season. Especially a home.
A couple interesting facts worth noting: The Chicago Fire handed both the Sounders and the Timbers their first win of the season, the 4-2 scoreline of tonights match exactly matches that of the Vancouver Whitecaps home opener a couple weeks ago.
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