Returning to the site of the first point the MLS franchise ever earned, the Timbers gave away a goal inside of a minute. Poor defending by Kalif Alhassan and Jack Jewsbury allowed an excellent cross from Chris Tierney to find the head of Saer Sene, glancing off in the inside of the crossbar and into the goal. Alhassan failed to close down Tierney with a sense of urgency, while Jewsbury allowed Sene to stroll into the box unmarked as he followed behind him lackadaisically.
That's essentially the story of the match, with a few minor sidebars. Kris Boyd should have put two headers into the goal and Diego Chara failed to finish a chance that was ripe for plucking. Franck Songo'o came in for Eric Alexander after an hour and looked dynamic, ripping a shot from outside the box and bicycling Alston in the face, earning himself a yellow card five minutes into his MLS debut. Darlington Nagbe started up top in favor of Jorge Perlaza, while AJB saw minutes again as Mosquera suffered a broken face and went to the hospital after some sort of foul via elbow.
I listened to the game through a streamed radio broadcast, as I have no television, MLS LIVE blackout applies to local broadcasts for 24 hours and national for 48 hours (somehow Dallas was still available live), and I couldn't find an illicit stream either. So I haven't seen the replay of the foul on Mosquera (not part of the highlights), but the John Strong's description of the foul sounded like it should have at least been a yellow card, if not straight red. Jumping up and brandishing elbows in an aerial challenge is a red card.
Next week is Real Salt Lake at home. See you there.
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