It’s a game Portland Timbers’ fans will want to forget, though any time a fanbase can say that, it’s the negatives that will be most memorable.
Such is the case after their team’s second-consecutive three-goal loss – a 3-0 defeat to FC Cincinnati, an MLS expansion team, that erases any silver lining existed around the team’s slow start. Now, it’d be too kind to call the team’s start slow. Six goals to the bad after three weeks, the defending Western Conference champions have problems.
"It’s definitely not the result that we want," head coach Savarese said, bluntly, from the field at Nippert Stadium
The team's winless state may prove the biggest memory from the loss to FC Cincinnati, but there were undoubtedly others.