1) According to the MLS Injury Report, the Timbers are the most injured team in the league, with nine guys listed as “out.”
Not “questionable,” but straight-up “out.”
And yet, we just beat the second place team in the conference and got our second straight shutout. We just played a whole raft of backups and looked good doing it. And I’m not talking about Saturday’s second half, when we were a man up, I’m talking about the first half, when the LA Galaxy had a full 11 players – first-choice players, at that – and we still had the better chances, still looked the better side.