Draws where you score a late goal to tie it up kinda feel like wins, don’t they? And when they’re over the best team in the league, a team that won their previous game 6-2? Well, those draws feel even better.
1) In last week’s column, I predicted a Starting XI made entirely of bench players, and when the Timbers kicked off last Thursday against LAFC, Gio’s XI wasn’t too far off. Diego Chara and Sebastian Blanco were holding down the midfield, and Steve Clark was between the posts, but otherwise, it was an entirely new starting lineup from the previous game.