It’s not just that the Portland Timbers are playing on short rest on Wednesday night in San Jose, California against the Earthquakes (7:30pm PT, FOX 12 PLUS (KPDX)). Since play resumed in July with the MLS is Back Tournament, short rest has been a fact of life for Major League Soccer’s teams. Now, however, travel demands teams go beyond a Disney World resort, with turnarounds tighter than Orlando’s three- or four-day windows.
“It's not easy,” Timbers head coach Giovanni Savarese said on Tuesday, two days after his team’s 3-0 home loss to Seattle Sounders FC. “The time is short, and there's the [need to give] the maximum information to the players about the last game and the game tomorrow.