SEATTLE – If the spring and early summer of the Portland Timbers’ 2018 Major League Soccer season was defined by the club’s 15-game unbeaten run, the ensuing months will be remembered as a time of less certainty, one defined by a squad regressing to their mean and the uncertainty the team had to navigate at its forward positions.
No player bore the insecurities of that process more than Dairon Asprilla. As early as the second game of the season, fans had questions about why the nominal right winger was also being used in a striker’s role.