The Portland Timbers travel down to Los Angeles on Sunday for the first away day of the fledgling 2022 MLS season. They face Los Angeles FC, a team fresh off of a 3-0 beatdown over the Colorado Rapids, last year’s top regular season team in the Western Conference.
Playing LAFC has been a fairly friendly prospect for the Timbers over the past two seasons. The Timbers are unbeaten in their five previous outings against the black & gold and swept them in 2021 with three straight wins.
Portland hasn’t lost to LAFC since October 2020 but the Timbers probably won’t be able to lean on that record this weekend.