DC United Topple the Portland Timbers

The repeatedly botched penalty kick

The Portland Timbers looked to maintain their home unbeaten run this afternoon against DC United, unfortunately for them the match ended in United's favor. As Chris Pontius took a long throw in and Blake Brettschneider headed the ball, DC rookie defender Perry Kitchen started the scoring off simply tapping the ball into the back of the net. The match was relatively quiet after that until the sixty-fourth minute, when Kenny Cooper was supposedly taken down in the box. The following penalty kick had to be retaken twice,  as Cooper's trickery forced DC keeper Hamid to come off of his line early twice in a row. Cooper was finally swapped out for Jack Jewsbury who buried it. Portland's hopes wouldn't last for long though, as Diego Chara got called for handball in the box only ten minutes later and Pontius burying the following PK. Josh Wolff gave DC an even greater advantage in the eighty-fifth minute off of a goal kick that found it's way over and through the Timbers' defense, all Wolff had to do was tap it into the back of the net. The Timbers were able to net another goal courtesy of a header by Jorge Perlaza but through the remainder of the match the failed to draw level.