Well that was quite a run

Half the starting midfield was out with injuries. The travel itinerary included Kitsap, Cary, Charleston, Santa Rosa, and finally Portland. Five games in 11 days. A pair of tricky US Open Cup games on the road against lower division clubs. A pair of league games over a three day stretch in ridiculous humidity. Another league game at the end of the stretch against a bottom of the table team that could have easily been overlooked. How did the Portland Timbers do?

Win
Draw
Draw
Win
Thumping (three players sent off, my goodiness)

Those are the types of results that are enough to get a guy with his head up his arse’s (guilty, although in this case replace arse with Seattle and you get my story) attention.

It doesn’t matter the year, there is also a time when the Timbers face adversity. Some years they deal with it well and some years they roll over and die (see last season). There still might be some tough stretches ahead – four straight league road games in July, and the annual Montreal/Rochester road affair come to mind – but based on what I have seen (term used loosely) during this recent run, I’m not too concerned about this team’s ability to handle it.

No defeats since April 25. Can’t argue with that.

Photo: Alex McDougall. He has more photos from the game right here. You should be kind and visit his photos since I was unkind and failed to let him know I was out of action on Friday. Cheers.

You should also take note that everyone’s pal Rick has brought the Oregonlive Timbers blog back from the dead. The more voices the merrier!

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