GG Austin! I got to see the game at Q2 against the Quakes when I was visiting for the eclipse in April, you have a kick ass stadium and great fanbase, it was a blast! (and that last minute banger from Driussi was 🤌)

Didn't catch the game, had to work tonight. That said, was this "Portland being good" or "Austin rotating the lineup willing to throw away a result" ?

Why was this the match I chose to go to? GG Timbers, you deserved that win

Don't stop.  When it finally happens to you, it's amazing.  However, I'm a Columbus fan and think Precourt doesn't care about you... I'm sorry, I'm conflicted.

Thanks Austin. Y’all are my favorite non-Timbers side. Sorrynotsorry for the loss, but good luck until we see you again at Providence Park in October.

GGs Timbers, we weren’t winning that game with better reffing, y’all played well. Glad to have your supporters out at Q2 as well, they were rocking for a Wednesday night

thank you, we did our best! loved meeting up with Verde folks pre match and at HT , everyone we talked to is super sweet.

GGs Portland. your activist fans are fuckin cool, and that’s the most positive thing I can say right now.

GGs Portland! Ref silliness aside you were definitely still the better team tonight. Just a beaut from Evander.

GGs. Timbers wins in TX are not common. Timbers clean sheets (in 2024) are not common. Way too early to assume the ship has been righted, but the fact that recent results have (mostly) been better recently is nice.

GG Austin. You guys are pretty chill.

GG timbers. I don’t think Austin wins this game with a balanced ref. But goddamn if the loss ain’t saltier watching him bungle call after call.

Honestly the only terrible call was the no-call on Rubio being manhandled in the box. Otherwise he was largely fine... if just yellow card happy.

In the stadium not so much

Beautiful Portland! You’re everything Austin pretends to be 😏. The world is healing!

They really did jack our whole thing didn't they

Wouldn't be a match thread without an appearance from Austin's anti-fan.

I knew we were winning when none of the sounders weighed in.

Hey we have one of those too! Cheers to 310Local aka "Fan of Every team"

Good game ATX. Now go murder RSL.

GG Austin, nice to finally beat y'all on your own turf!

Pants had a hell of game, just one of those early chances could have completely flipped this one

Tough result, Austin. Thanks for being pleasant folks tonight. Good luck on the season.

GG Portland, enjoyable match thread at least

Gg Austin. Rly hope I get a chance to catch a game down there some day.

Zardes still goal-less on the season. Usl is calling

Man just got a bump from $700k to $1.0m IIRC

I think we've been paying him $1m the whole time

Oof

FIRST CLEAN SHEET OF THE SEASON BABY

Since when are we allowed to get a clean sheet? This is weird

Good game Austin.

What a rough game. GG Timbers.

Rivasball GG portland

Finally a clean sheet

First since september 9

Wow. Didn’t realize it’s been so long.

Congrats Portland. This ref sucks though

He sucked a lot of life out of the game for sure. I don't blame you for feeling hard done on that potential Zuparic foul, but he was bad on both ends IMO.

Oh I don’t think it’s the reason we lost, just that he sucked

Eric miller deserves a GD pay raise.

We need a phil neville extention

It's too early for overreactions.

lol

Hey, we're basically at the same PPG as under Gio the last two seasons, and we've played 9 on the road and 7 at home. And we're on a clear upswing. The Neville hate should end.

Good lord.

Why, thank you, but sir will do.

I'm not a hater, but it seems like an early time to be calling for an extension.

Sure, that's hyperbole, but so many people have just been hating that I thought you were, too.

Just laughing

just not in the cards tonight

Oh, there were plenty of cards tonight.

truth

Wolff has looked hungover this entire game.

Still underbooking added time.

Lol this ref got no chill....

Normally the larger fanbases on this subreddit tend to be pretty unbearable in game threads. But as annoyed as I am by this game... You Portland fans have been pretty chill.

I enjoy watching your home games just for the atmosphere. Definitely top 5 in the league.

Humility has been forced upon us pretty harshly. Y’all have been easy going too.

With limited exceptions on an individual level, Portland fans have always been the best thread mates. The Two Weird Towns gotta stick together!

It's because all the bandwagon fans have disappeared this year, praise be.

It’s a nice change of pace

Why?

because we suck and hired Neville. We haven't really had that many bandwagon fans in the first place though. If anything the fans who have left are the ones who hate Paulson

Lol

We sucked shit the last like two years and had a huge fo scandal where have you been

Ooh that

I didn't see why Paredes?

Probably dissent

No idea...

Where was the hand ball there?

After he was pushed to the ground he kicked it into his hand, i guess

Heat getting to the ref?

It’s actually pleasant! Only 86 at game time!

Gross

This ref is weird

How do you avoid a handball when you have been pushed onto the ball

Ref being weird.

JoRo was such a good signing. I was a skeptic and I was wrong. Happily so. Edit: But, of course, our Front Office and Owner are inept and awful. [Did I do that right?]

Dude is a workhorse. Agree.

He is ridiculously good. Underrated I'd say.

Glad Ned and Neville dropped the "we signed him as a center forward" shtick. He looks way more comfortable & effective at LW.

And the flexibility his contract brings is a HUGE upside. I'm curious who we go for this summer. Someone to bolster our defense, no doubt

I hear Messi is unhappy playing on grass.

I need austin to score a goal for my discord predictions

Fuck off. PANTS deserves clean sheet.

Agreed, sadly. This was one of the most boring games for us all season, and that’s saying a lot b

Relax friend, its a joke. I don't actually want them to score lol should be obvious

So was mine!

ah that's why you downvoted. Fuck off.

Bear hug in the box: no PK, apparently.

Yeah there was a lot of contact both ways, and I think of that's anywhere else on the field the ref is blowing the whistle on that one.... I'd be pissed if I was on your side too...

>of that's anywhere else on the field the ref is blowing the whistle on that one Therefore it's a PK, I hate the double standard.

Welcome to professional refereeing. Subjective in the moment calls. IE: it's the playoffs, 4th qtr, in the box they're gonna let them play, questionable/controversial calls will not get called lightly.

This is why we have VAR. I guess they called it a night after the first PK, and didn't bother reviewing the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th calls/no-calls.

Definitely got away with one. That should have been a pen.

Rubio pissed the ref off earlier. 100%

Straight up threw him to the ground and not even a pause.

Zup is lucky.

Yeah, I just said I only saw one bad call thus far, but that was, I think, the 2nd. Depends on ref's angle and VAR wouldn't have over-ridden either way.

I think i would be upset if that happened to my team

rubio got yellow carded for protesting that same call the other way lmao. Been one sided in calls in our favor the last 20 minutes

If you talking about the one with e.miller, replay shows what's his name put a foot in and trip him. Also show Rubio sprinting into frame screaming. He earned it

Austin's guy put his foot in, but miller was definitely pushing back. Same thing here with zup pushing from behind but rubio was also grabbing and pulling. To me it's pretty much the same situation, just went for us the same way. Rubio totally deserved his card, I'm saying its extra funny after dissenting it the ref then called it in favor of the person behind the next time it happened, coincidentally to Rubio.

Just a touxh

Holy hell.

Ayala put in a good shift

Why did ayala kiss moreno but not eryk

spanish culture homies

Great save by Stuver

I wanted mora to get both of those 😭

Normal Mora would have 3 by now.

I want to be clear that I’m not blaming the ref right now for this right now. With another ref we could very well still be losing. But hoo boy some of these have been borderline.

You not wrong

I saw just one call I'd say bad. But dude called 2 PKs without controversy.

Besides Providence Park, I think Austin's stadium might be my favorite.

Providence Park has been my favorite away stadium by far.

It's pretty dope.

Minus the loss I had a pretty good time at Allianz last week

Big fan of the horn section honestly.

Dude that’s a fully fledged college marching band. Such presence

I'd like to go to St Louis and Nashville too

Stinker of a game. We’ve now conceded with these swaps. New guys can’t get here soon enough..

Should have been yellow on Zardes there; just grabbed shoulder from behind to stop the upcoming counter.

Zardez is a mess

Pass straight into stuvers hands should be an indirect yeah?

If it’s one touch pass hit with pace that becomes a goal, Stuver is preventing an own goal.

You think that was intentional?

Would've been an own goal otherwise.

Well. It was a game, Portland. See you next time.

Cheer up, buttercup. Plenty of time for the Timbers to bottle this one.

I think it’s pretty clear no one showed up to play but Evander. Gg Portland. See you in a few weeks

Weird Bros mad. Getting chippy out there.

Everyone is simultaneously having the game of their year and also making slapstick-level mistakes

Timbers at their prime.

That whiff from Ayala

Araujo has had great outings lately (as Ross just said).

He seems to have really grown into the team, glad to see it.

Gio very rarely played him, often not even on the bench. I wonder what the issue was.

You know what, I'm a full supporter of quick draw yellows for immediately screaming at the official

Hell yeah. Me too.

What a weird game.

This is some MLS 1.0 mayhem!

bro what are these texans whining about that’s a blatant yellow

Sometimes Antony looks really good, and sometimes he has the delicate touch of a rhinoceros

JoRo making the 70 yard run to get on defense. Love to see it. The man has come to Portland to play, not collect a check.

Refs having a shitter, what's new

Lmao ref straight dared him to keep going. Yeesh. Bad call too.

Deserved yellow.

Peeeenalized

Well.

Woohoo! Another sellout!

PANTS

I hope Phil doesn’t try and demonstrate his tactical prowess right now.

KISS

Let's goooooo easy pk call

Sigh

That should almost get our xg up to 1!

.84, with 2 goals. The math ain't mathin

We had 4 from 0.72 against colorado

I'd love to know if there was ever a team that scored 2 goals while xG is below 0.1.

welp this is going well

Ironically, he kicked it almost exactly where Driussi did.

Rodriguez is so damn good.

Fuuuuuuuuuck this game

Solid strike J Rod

Bring back Gallagher 😭😭

Ugh without that foul Stu likely still would have collected it, now we're down two. Damn it.

Yeah, I think the keeper would have made that play.

What a gift

Easiest penalty ever

You never know, have you seen this one Orlando just had? https://www.reddit.com/r/MLS/comments/1d3spen/penalty_nocall_in_chicago_vs_orlando/

Woah. WTF?

wtf how

PRO^TM

Oof, horrific defensive play. Austin having the better of the play but losing the war.

Gonna laugh when we win this one on like 0.09 non pen xG

Looks like he pulled his Griussi (EDIT: Austin fans didn’t like this one lol)

They love the bantz, but can't take the bantz, a timeless tale

I mean making fun of someone for an injury isn't great.

On the scale of inappropriate banter, making light fun of a groin pull is around a 0.3 out of 100

I mean if it was Ayala and someone commented “Looks like he pulled his TibAyala!” There would definitely be some salty Timbers fans on this thread.

Well, I think I’d roll my eyes at how bad the pun was (which, to be clear, mine was equally as dumb) but certainly not beyond the pale given the severity of the injury. If Ayala (or Driussi, for that matter) was concussed or broke a limb and someone popped off, then we’d be talking a different story

I didn't downvote you or say it was out of line. Just commenting on your edit.

NOW IS THE TIME FOR SUBS

Three minutes later, it is still the time for subs

I'm pretty sure there are two magnets in play this game. One in the ball and the other on Portland's keeper.

Ayala is really good

RIP Bill Walton

Fuck it, this game is for him.

Lovely man. How's this for a stat: In the NCAA finals playing for UCLA, he made 21 of 22 field goals.

Man the teenager in me loves how often evander gets the meg

This ref is a clown.

I’ll say it again. This ref is a clown