BEAVERTON, Ore. – The Chicago Fire has never beaten the Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer.
Does that surprise you? Perhaps not. You may have already known before clicking on this article. But me, when I went to look at the head-to-head history between the teams, I was reminded (as I’m sure I was reminded last year, when I last wrote a preview for this matchup): Though all but one of the teams’ games has been decided by a goal or less, when they’ve faced the Timbers in MLS, Chicago has gone 0-4-5.
The flip side of that: Portland hasn’t beaten the Fire since July 2015.