Portland Timbers head coach Giovanni Savarese
On the meaning of today’s match…
“I felt that we did some very good things in the first half in regard to being compact. Unfortunately, some moments and some mistakes allowed them to be able to find the goals and then now we have to be able to play to try to come back into the game. I thought the second half was a very good start. We started very well, but then we became a little bit unbalanced. They had chances, we had chances; finishing 2-1 with this group, of course, is not what we wanted.