

Match Reports
Who are ya? - Hollywood United
By: Bob Kellett |The Details: Portland Timbers v Hollywood United, Tuesday, June 10, 7pm, PGE Park, Video webcast (the game will not be shown live but will be available on demand after it is finished)
How they got here: For the first time in club history Hollywood United have advanced to the knockout stage of the US Open [...]
Match 13: Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: The Vancouver Whitecaps scored three goals in the second half to pull away from the Portland Timbers 3-1 in front of 5,288 at Swangard Stadium. Scot Thompson gave the visiting Timbers an early lead in the 8th minute when he headed a cross from Bryan Jordan into the goal. The [...]
Match 12: Portland Timbers 0-0 Minnesota Thunder
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers and Minnesota Thunder battled to a 0-0 draw in front of 5,651 at PGE Park on a June evening that easily could have been mistaken for a night in February. Both teams had ample opportunities to find the net, but were unable to convert their chances in a [...]
Match 11: Rochester Rhinos 2-1 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: Johnny Menyongar’s goal in the 80th minute lifted the Rochester Rhinos to a 2-1 victory over the Portland Timbers in front of 5,123 at PAETEC Park. The victory is the first of the 2008 season for the Rhinos (1-4-3). Coming off a victory in Montreal on Friday night, the Timbers [...]
Match 10: Montreal Impact 0-1 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line:Different stadium, same result. Coming off a stretch in which they had not won in six games and after dropping a pair of games at home last weekend, the Portland Timbers once again found comfort in Montreal. Chris Brown volleyed home the game’s lone goal in the 45th minute to lift [...]
What the heck just happened?
By: Bob Kellett |Man, a guy takes a couple of games off to get hitched and all hell breaks loose. After a season that started so promising, our beloved Portland Timbers have fallen off the proverbial tracks. The weekend, henceforth known as the Memorial Day Massacre, saw Portland’s 19-game regular season unbeaten streak at PGE Park [...]
Match 7: Miami FC Blues 0-0 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |Well crap, Word Press ate my post. If you didn’t catch it earlier, it was full of insightful and astute analysis, as well as lots of poor grammar and punctuation. My apologies for the technical glitch. I’ll see if there is some way to recover what I wrote.
Match 6: Puerto Rico Islanders 2-2 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers came back from a two-goal deficit to pick up their first point in four tries in Puerto Rico in front of 6,922 at Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium. The Islanders (1-3-1) struck first on a header from Sandy Gbandi in the 20th minute. Just five minutes later John [...]
Match 5: Seattle Sounders 0-0 Portland Timbers
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers paid their final regular season USL First Division visit to Seattle on Saturday evening and played the Sounders to a 0-0 draw before 10,184 at Qwest Field. With both teams struggling to find their attack, the two Northwest rivals played a typically tight game. The two teams [...]
Match 4: Portland Timbers 0-0 Rochester Rhinos
By: Bob Kellett |The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers and Rochester Rhinos played to a nil-nil draw on a Thursday evening in front of 7,519 at PGE Park. Coming off a 12-day layoff, the Timbers could not find a rhythm against a Rochester side that kept the action tight. The two teams combined for a [...]







