The competition of the Cascadia Cup between Seattle and Portland is so important: both teams used series intensively rotated in the middle of the week to ensure that their best players are ready for the Providence Park.
Sounders (5-4-4, 19 points) had a line unattrained from five matches caught in Los Angeles FC on Wednesday, while Timbers (6-3-4, 22 points) made a scoreless draw in Real Salt Lake.
Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer, “physically viewed, the children who will start the game (Saturday) will be fresh, ready to go.” He said. He continued: “You always carry the risk of changes when you will change. The series that we resist Lafc has achieved a good success against them (5-2 victory in March 8 Seattle).”
Danny Musovski from Seattle, who came as a substitution in 57th on Wednesday, was caught by scoring five -game goals.
Timbers pushed hard in RSL in the last five minutes, but could not enter the board.
Coach Phil Neville said he expects the intensity to be much larger on Saturday.
“This is a derby game. It must be brave, aggressive, show our qualifications,” the club said only once in the last 10 league matches (5-1-4). “We should go there and play our game and increase the intensity last night.”
Neville said that advanced Kevin Kelsy was suspicious for the match and that goalkeeper James Pantemis (Leg) was “50-50”.
Timbers Captain Diego Chara is preparing for the 36th match against Seattle, more than the value of the MLS season.
“We know how important it is for our fans and the club, Chara Chara said from competition. “It will be the first for some players, but they have experience in their own countries playing Clasico games.”
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