The Portland Timbers lost by four goals on Saturday to a New York Red Bulls team that almost exclusively started reserves. The question isn’t “when does this team hit rock bottom?” It’s “how long do they stay there?”
Let’s cruise.
Deep Cuts
Every reasonable observer agrees that Gio Savarese deserves time to get this right. An adjustment period was always a likelihood for a coach coming to a new league and taking over a team with a sizable handful of new players.
And at the end of the day Saturday was an early-season loss to an Eastern Conference team.