Everyone pick themselves up after last weekend? Good — because it’s time to go again.
A week removed after their worst loss of the young MLS season, the Portland Timbers (1-3-0, 3 pts) host fellow Western Conference strugglers the Los Angeles Galaxy (0-1-2, 2 pts). Saturday’s meeting at Providence Park (1:30 p.m. PT, Apple TV-Free, FOX) is of course still early in the year, but it feels like it has big implications for the general mood around the Timbers’ prospects for the 2023 season.
A look at the opposition
Life hasn’t been the greatest for the Galaxy to start the year.