Major League Soccer Matchday 19: Portland Timbers Match Preview

July 21, 2021 at 4:30 a.m. CEST

The game of the nineteenth round of Major League Soccer will take place next Thursday at 4:30 am Portland Timbers and to FC Los Angeles by doing Providence-Park.

The Portland Timbers comes into the nineteenth round with a desire to regain points after losing to him Austin FC in the previous game with a score of 4-1. Since the start of the competition, the hosts have won four of the eleven games so far in Major League Soccer with a series of 14 goals and 19 goals against.

Regarding the visiting squad, the FC Los Angeles won against Austin FC as a guest with 0: 2 and before that he had it from his field against the However Salzsee with 0-1, so he hopes to repeat the result, this time in the fief of Portland Timbers. Of the 12 games by by FC Los Angeles in Major League Soccer, he won five of them with a record of 15 goals against 12 goals against.

In terms of performance at his stadium, the Portland Timbers has taken three wins and two losses in five home games, numbers that can be encouraging for him FC Los Angelesas they show a certain weakness of the premises in the games that take place in the Providence-Park. At home that FC Los Angeles He has a record of two wins, three losses and one draw in six games he has played so far, numbers that do not show an overly optimistic record for the game that will measure him Portland Timbers.

In their last clashes in the stadium of Portland Timbers, the numbers show a win, a loss and a tie for the hosts. The visiting squad also added two games in a row without losing to away Portland Timbers. The last game between Portland Timbers and the FC Los Angeles The competition was held in November 2020 and ended in a 1-1 draw.

If we analyze the situation of these teams in the Major League Soccer leaderboard, we can see that the visitors are above that Portland Timbers with a difference of five points. The team at Giovanni Savarese He comes to the game in tenth and with 13 points before the game. For his part, FC Los Angeles he has 18 points and is fifth in the tournament.

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