BEAVERTON, Ore. -- It didn’t take long for the comparisons to make it to the Timbers’ Training Facility. Four days, in fact.
Before the 2019 season, the Portland Timbers had a truncated offseason, the reverse reward for an MLS Cup final run that took the team’s 2018 campaign into December. This offseason, though, Portland’s reverse reward saw their season end almost two months earlier, on October 19 at Real Salt Lake. With this year’s season opener slated for March 1, Portland was handed five-and-a-half months between competitive games.
Too short. Then too long. At some point, it would be nice to be Goldilocks.