BEAVERTON, Ore. – “For me, the most important thing is that we have to look at this game as every other game,” Portland Timbers head coach Giovanni Savarese said on Tuesday, “that we go into it to try and get points and try to have a strong performance – an improvement on what we saw against the Galaxy.”
It’s the same view any previous Portland Timbers coach would have of a cross-country trip to face the New York Red Bulls, which they do this week on Saturday (4pm PT, ROOT SPORTS), and to the extent Savarese is cut from the same cloth, the feeling is the same.