The Portland Timbers Gazette
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ariel Lassiter
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Portland Timbers
A 2‑1 win over Los Angeles Football Club, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match19 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Los Angeles Football Club as Portland Timbers pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Portland Timbers scored in the 105th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dynamo Kyiv come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Portland Timbers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Kristoffer Velde scores twice — 7.99
Two goals and a mark of 7.99 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Portland Timbers
José Luis Caicedo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Alexander Aravena
Marked 8.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad24 Aug 2026
DeAndre Howard stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” DeAndre Howard and Portland Timbers agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Pablo Barrera dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Squad When it matters, Alexander Aravena plays
- Match Portland Timbers draw a blank against Houston Dynamo
- Market Zac McGraw placed on the list