Portland Timbers is entering home conflicts against Los Angeles FC in an uninfected run on Saturday night.
Nevertheless, Portland manager Phil Neville said he believes that in the last few seasons, gaining results against the best part of the Western Conference can get anything extra.
Yes, Timbers (4-2-2, 14 points) took the third place at the Western Conference two points ahead of LAFC. However, this is only about one quarter of the season and at a time when LAFC’s attention was divided between the MLS and Concacaf Champions Cup competition.
LAFC (4-4-0, 12 points), which ended in the western two of the last three years for the first time and the 2023 MLS scorer Denis Bouanga and the French national team’s leader Olivier Giroud.
Neville treats the match on Saturday with a mentality on the deck and asks the same as the fans of the team.
“We will need supporters with us,” he said. “We will have to do this scary. We will have to do this one of the special provision parking nights.”
All this won a higher place on the Portland table, won three times in five matches (3-0-2) and scored 11 goals.
Last weekend, Kevin Kelsy won 4-2 in Kansas City last weekend, the latest Timbers attacker shining with two goals and a cross that contributed to a third goal.
Meanwhile, Bouanga scored the first goal of the season last Saturday in the face of Lafc’s 2-1 house in front of San Jose. Giroud still did not score goals in the league game, but last week’s win was much more threatening than previous trips.
“Looking at the last few weeks, we were not as productive as we wanted to be.” He said. He continued: “We do not have players or game models to start scoring again. So we think it’s just a matter of time.”
Cherundolo also hopes that his side will look much more fresh on Saturday after a week later. To this point, Lafc played six extra champions cup games before eliminating the quarter -finals by Miami.
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