(8) Portland Timbers (9, 9, 4, 31 points) vs (11) Vancouver Whitecaps (5, 11, 9, 24 points)
Saturday, August 10, 2019 8:00 PM PST/11:00 PM EST
Providence Park, Portland, Oregon

Portland Timbers at a glance

With two matches dropped consecutively in Twin Cities, among one of them headlining a disheartening loss in semifinals in the USOC, its back to reality for these hardened Timbers.

Come this Saturday, these will be looking for a fresh start in league play.

As the Portland Timbers being within two points of the red line, the need of a win can be imperative to restore this club momentum and start aiming at least for the Cascadia Cup.

No room for errors, as these Portland Timbers are in need of wins if they are to aspire for a spot in the postseason, as well see a continuance of its amazing game to close in the plus.

However, its not the end of the world and hopefully we see a return of some notable players in the Timbers defensive backfield as well the attack coming through with amazing plays.

As the calendar favors the Portland side, with its majority of games at home, the Timbers can gain some ground in the Western Conference and maybe we can see a notable finish.

GK Steve Clark, Jorge Moriera, Bill Tuiloma, Julio Cascante, Jorge Villafaña; Diego Chara, Cristhian Paredes; Jeremy Ebobisse, Diego Valeri, Sebastian Blanco; Brian Fernandez

Vancouver Whitecaps

Welcome to Major League Soccer manager Marc Dos Santos.

Unfortunately, is not easy as it looks, as the first year man in the helm of the Caps, in spite of his team front office providing him a number of important players in the preseason to front a contested season.

Still his team has struggled in the majority of this season and currently seeded eleven in the table, for its first year manager Dos Santos, he is looking forward in seeing a surge in his team.

As his consolation early in the season, when his side defeated the Timbers at BC Place by the minimum difference of one goal, this time the Timbers are playing as locals and seen as a one tough client to mess at home.

One fact for sure in this match, that the Caps manager will send his best eleven alongside looking for the win, that in the end will translate into a much needed boost of confidence for his team.

The Caps come with a win on the road over newcomers FC Cincinnati, breaking a nine match win less streak and this can be taken as a motivator in this edition of the Cascadia Derby.

GK Maxime Crepeau, Jakob Nerwinski, Eric Godoy, Cornelius, Ali Adnan; Micheall Chirinos, Hwang In-Beom, Russell Teibert; Theo Bair, Fredy Montero; Joaquin Ardaiz

Meetings

May 10, 2019 Vancouver Whitecaps 1-0 Portland Timbers

October 28, 2018 Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 Portland Timbers

August 11, 2018 Portland Timbers 1-2 Vancouver Whitecaps

Prediction

Portland is the overall favorite, but these Whitecaps are known to be top spoilers