It’s the “perfect time,” Giovanni Savarese said on Tuesday. Despite the team’s three-match slide. Despite Seattle Sounders FC’s nine-match ride. Sunday (6:30pm PT, FS1) is the perfect time for the next edition of Portland and Seattle’s rivalry, the Timbers head coach felt. It was the perfect opportunity for the team to change course.
“It comes at a moment which we need this game …,” Savarese said, unprompted, including his thoughts with an answer about the team’s last road trip.
“I believe in my players, one hundred percent,” he’d say, later in the press conference, discussing his team’s path forward.