Portland Timbers and Colorado Rapids prepare for the opening day at Providence Park. Portland Timbers will begin their campaign while playing in front of the home fans and they hope to apply the advantage to get a positive result. Their last 2 preseason games ended in a defeat and that can be a huge worry for the team ahead of the new season. The Rapids also lost their final preseason game against Orlando City SC but they had a much better preseason campaign than Portland Timbers.
Both clubs will come into this game with one goal in mind and that is to win this game and build on that for the rest of the season.
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Portland Timbers finished 18th last season. They accumulated a total of 43 points at the end of the season and in the course of the season they had 11 wins, 10 draws and 13 defeats. Evander was top scorer with 9 goals, while Santiago Moreno provided 6 assists last season.
Portland Timbers had been involved in preseason games ahead of the new season. They started off with a win over Phoenix Rising and then a draw with New York City. But they lost the final 2 games against San Jose Earthquakes and Chicago Fire. It is unclear how much these results will affect them ahead of the new season but we can expect them to come into this game chasing a win.
Portland Timbers have strengthened the goalkeeping department ahead of the new season, with the additions of Maxime Crépeau from Los Angeles FC and James Pantemis from CF Montreal. Trey Muse also joined the ranks from Charleston Battery to bolster the goalkeeping department ahead of the new season.
Colorado Rapids
Colorado Rapids have put in a lot of effort in the preparation for the new season. They played in 6 preseason games and they had 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. They won against Querétaro, Atlante and CF Montreal and lost against Atletico Moreila and Orlando City SC. And they played a draw against Hartford Athletic.
At the end of last season, Colorado Rapids finished in 28th place. They accumulated 27 points from 34 matches and in the course of the season they had just 5 wins, 12 draws and 17 defeats. Cole Bassette was top scorer for the Rapids with 6 goals while Connor Ronan registered 8 assists.
Colorado Rapids’ new signing Dorde Mihailoviç scored once in the 6-2 win over CF Montreal. He played only 8 matches for AZ Alkmaar last season and he failed to score a single goal. Sam Vines also came in from Belgian side Royal Antwerp last month He played 5 games for Antwerp last season and scored 1 goal.
Head to Head
In their last 20 meetings Portland Timbers won 9 times while Colorado Rapids won 5 times and they drew 6 times.
Analysis and Predictions
Portland Timbers are holding the crucial advantage in this match. Whether that will be enough to see them through is not a certainty. According to the h2h, Portland Timbers remain unbeaten in their last 3 meetings against Colorado Rapids.
Portland Timbers have not kept a clean sheet in their last 3 matches and Colorado Rapids in their last 10. In Colorado Rapids' last 7 matches, both teams have scored and more than 2.5 goals were scored. While both teams scored in 8 of Portland Timbers’ last 10 matches.
- More than 2.5 Total Goals at 1.68 Odds
- More than 2.5 Total Goals at 1.68 Odds
- More than 2.5 Total Goals at 1.66 Odds
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