The Portland Timbers have been here, before. Giovanni Savarese’s Portland Timbers? Not so much.
For only the second time under the new manager’s watch, the Timbers are dealing with a two-game losing streak. The last time this happened, back in March, the team responded with a 10-1-7 run that vaulted them to second place in the Western Conference. Maybe losing games isn’t so bad, after all?
Maybe. But maybe there’s something else going on, here. At the beginning of the year, it was easy to see losses to the LA Galaxy and New York Red Bulls as symptomatic of a transition.