Portland Timbers vs FC Dallas Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Portland Timbers

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Portland Timbers go into this fixture following a 1-1 MLS drawn result versus Los Angeles FC.

In that game, Portland Timbers had 49% possession and 8 shots at goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Portland Timbers was Villafaña (90'). Los Angeles FC got 14 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Vela (5') was the scorer for Los Angeles FC.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Portland Timbers have kept a clean sheet. In fact, The Timbers have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 6 goals along the way. With no two games being the same, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern will be replicated here in this game.

FC Dallas

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Minnesota United in MLS action, FC Dallas and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, FC Dallas managed 47% possession and 16 shots on goal with 4 on target. Minnesota United got 20 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. Molino (17', 79') and Reynoso (47') scored for Minnesota United.

The trend of at least one team not scoring a goal in games featuring FC Dallas has been noticeable recently. Looking at their last 6 outings shows that this has occurred 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have managed a goal total of 7 and Toros have scored 6.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 11/06/2017 tells us that Portland Timbers have won 3 of them & FC Dallas 1, with the tally of drawn results standing at 2.

An aggregate of 11 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 from The Timbers and 4 being from Toros. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.83.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was MLS match day 22 on 01/07/2019 when the final score was Portland Timbers 1-0 FC Dallas.

That day, Portland Timbers had 46% possession and 17 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Brian Fernández (42').

For their opponents, FC Dallas had 12 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Allen Chapman.

🗞️ Team News: Portland Timbers

Portland Timbers boss Giovanni Savarese has a full complement, with no fitness concerns at all before this game owing to a completely healthy group ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: FC Dallas

Thanks to a completely healthy group to choose from, FC Dallas boss Luchi Gonzalez does not have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this match.

🔮 Prediction

We think that FC Dallas will have to perform well to see themselves scoring against this Portland Timbers outfit who we think might well emerge victorious.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a highly competitive game with a 1-0 win for Portland Timbers at the end of the 90 minutes.

Let’s see.

Andre Moura, 00:08 19/11/2020