For a team that had to be remade in the offseason, the 2019 version of Timbers 2 has a very familiar feel. The teams on-field shape is still the same, if the tactics, while evolving, are a little different. Some of the names across the back shoulders will be the same, too, with the close ties between the Portland Timbers’ Major League Soccer and United Soccer League teams destined to persist. Coming off the first postseason appearance in team history, T2 seems ready to pick up where they left off.
“It’s just making sure we’re prepared, as much as we can,” head coach Cameron Knowles says, when asked what dominates his mind in the days before kickoff.