📊 Form Guide

Portland Timbers

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Portland Timbers will be looking for an improved result here following a 1-0 MLS losing effort in their last game against Orlando City.

In that match, Portland Timbers had 60% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 1 on target. Orlando City had 14 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Duncan McGuire (39') was the scorer for Orlando City.

Under three goals per match were recorded in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Portland Timbers have been participants. Breaking down the goal weighting from that period, their opponents scored a total of 5 and Portland Timbers got themselves 5.

Colorado Rapids

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Colorado Rapids will go into this meeting following on from a 1-0 MLS win over St. Louis City in their previous game.

In that game, Colorado Rapids had 47% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 on target. The scorer for Colorado Rapids was Darren Yapi (41'). For their opponents, St. Louis City had 13 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

In 5 of the previous 6 games featuring Colorado Rapids, a notably low volume of goals have been struck between them and their opponents. The overall average number of goals per game during that spell comes to a paltry 1.83, with the average goals for Rapids being 0.67. We will just have to find out if that trend can be continued on here.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 26/06/2022 shows us that Portland Timbers have won 4 of these & Colorado Rapids 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

An aggregate of 19 goals were scored between them in this period, with 14 from The Timbers and 5 netted by Rapids. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was MLS match day 7 on 23/03/2025 when it ended Colorado Rapids 0-3 Portland Timbers.

That time, Colorado Rapids managed 47% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Josh Atencio (45' Own goal).

Portland Timbers got 11 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Antony (48') and Kevin Kelsy (75') scored.

The referee was Jair Marrufo.

📰 Team News: Portland Timbers

James Pantemis (Leg injury), Zac McGraw (Back injury) and Miguel Araujo (Fitness) are not available for Portland Timbers manager Phil Neville.

It looks as if The Timbers will probably go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game, handing starts to Maxime Crépeau, Juan Mosquera, Finn Surman, Dario Zuparic, Jimer Fory, Cristhian Paredes, David Ayala, Santiago Moreno, David Costa, Omir Fernandez and Kevin Kelsy.

🗞️ Team News: Colorado Rapids

Colorado Rapids boss Chris Armas has a number of players out of action. Adam Beaudry (Ankle injury), Ali Fadal (Knee injury), Rafael Navarro (Ankle injury) and Zack Steffen (Muscle injury) will miss out on this game.

We are inclined to think that Colorado Rapids could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out N. Defreitas-Hansen, Reggie Cannon, Andreas Maxsö, Chidozie Awaziem, Jackson Travis, Oliver Larraz, Josh Atencio, Theodore Ku-DiPietro, Darren Yapi, Sam Bassett and Djordje Mihailovic.

✨ Prediction

It’s looking like Colorado Rapids will need to play some great football to find the net against a Portland Timbers team who have the quality to boss most aspects of this game if it turns out as we expect.

We can see a commanding 3-0 winning scoreline for Portland Timbers when the referee blows the final whistle.

Victor Martins, 02:01 29/05/2025