The Portland Timbers will have been anxious to get back to the field since Saturday, when the team was humbled in a 4-1 loss at the Houston Dynamo.
Four points to the good in a playoff chase that’s reached its final six rounds, last year’s Western Conference first-place finishers are still in line for a postseason return. But with new doubts surfacing after their weekend’s lopsided loss, Giovanni Savarese’s team will be eager to prove their latest trip to BBVA Compass Stadium was an outlier, not the start of a new pattern.
That process starts on Wednesday, with Columbus Crew SC visiting Providence Park (7:30pm PT, FOX 12 PLUS) coming off a strong weekend draw at FC Dallas.