Back in the “regular” season, Seattle played one of their 27 matches against Portland and came away 3-0 winners. The Timbers got to enjoy their MLS IS BACK win for exactly zero matches. The game was close for much of the match, although Seattle had consistently better chances and was able to snowball them into a rout. This clean sheet, multiple-goal, away win against our biggest rival was an incredible start to a schedule that has the Sounders playing six games in 19 days, and vaulted Seattle to second in the Western Conference.

Goalkeeper

Frei had a very busy match, with five saves and 40 touches.