There were a whole lot of firsts in Saturday’s 2-1 victory over LAFC. Let’s go through them one-by-one.
1) The game’s first first? Our first real look at Julio Cascante. It wasn’t the first appearance in a Timbers uniform for the 24-year old Costa Rican, but those three minutes of mop-up action in Chicago? Hard to learn much from that. But 84 minutes off the bench at home? Yeah, that definitely counts.
This is a mixed bag, of course, because, yes, I wanted to see Cascante play, but not if it mean an injury to Liam Ridgewell.