The Seattle Sounders are taking on the Portland Timbers tonight at Qwest Field in the 'Community Shield'. The match is the last between the long-time arch-rivals before the Timbers join MLS in 2011.
If you are at tonight's match, or are following the match, please feel free to share updates from Qwest Field on the action and the atmosphere at one of the best rivalries in American soccer.
Enjoy the action.
It was a friendly so I did not expect much. I thought the players for the Sounders who stood ou it were as follows:
Leo Gonzalez
Brad Evans (played right back for most of the game, but added more when we was pushed up to the midfield – I do not like the Evans right back experiment that is going on)
Zakuani did not look good
Montero can do so much yet he did so little
David Estrada looked like he has some potential
Keller, Hurtado, Marshall did not have to do much the whole game
Alonso was a menace
Finally for all you coaches who just want the hustle guy Roger Levesque just seems to run all day
Can someone please shoot from outside the 18?
ACBS!!!
Is it true that Portland’s stadium is only going to host 14,000 and that they are expecting to sell it out the first year, then drop to 12,000 the third year? I just thought it was going to be bigger then that.
Please let the CBA be signed. IF that is the last Sounder’s game that I ever see, I will find out my life has NOT been at rock bottom, I still had further to go….too much to handle.
The Sounder’s were awful. You would hope they just played badly and Portland is a pretty good team. Just not the case. The only thing in mid-season form was the fans. 18,000+ on a rainy Thursday. The south end, even with only 18,000 sounded loud, impressive. Too bad they played so bad, many of the fans seemed to be first timers.
They actually ended up televising the game, but it was so bad, I couldn’t watch it on TIVO.
Sigi and Schmetzer better work some magic quickly or pray for the strike. The team as it is now, stinks.
Very doubtful on fights, there were zero arrest last year at Sounder’s game…not an exageration, truly zero.
The fans got uppity?Mind me asking what that means? Did they start picking fights again?
And please don’t censor, delete, or ban me Ives. I’m asking a serious, relevant question. Ever since the bottle thrown at Wicks incident I’ve been waiting to see what’s next.
Yep!LOL. This isn’t trolling is it?
Pathetically victorious.
Seeing as how they are going to be the newest team in the mls. They are going to have to be a team that relies on bunkering down and playing good defense while relying on the counter attack for goals. So they did practice their style of soccer that will suit them for the regular season.
I get the feeling that you would not be taking it so lightly if you had won the game. It’s easy to lower the importance after the fact.
It was ugly, I will give you that, but strong defensive play is never attractive. To say that you would have dismantled the Timbers in the second half is ignoring the fact that you spent the first running straight at us and getting nothing for it. What happened in the second half is that you would have tired yourselves out while we defended, and wait for the space to play a counter attack, which we did anyway though we couldn’t put anything away.
Either way it was a good game, even though some of the sounders fans got a bit uppity at the end.
I like how the bet is placed conveniently after the game is over.
*its one of
Its not just a friendly match, its a of the biggest soccer rivalries in USA soccer.
This was a charity game. The Sounders only played Ljundberg and company for a half and dominated possetion. This is normal against a team of lesser quality. Second half would have been a dissmantaling of Portland. But again, this was a pre-season warm up to get guys minutes and look at new guys. Not the greatest of finishing by the Sounders, but if this was a real game, then we know how soccer is. The better team takes over in the second half. Of course, the Sounders had subs in the second half. Charity game. Pre-season warm up. Thanks Timbers for coming to help with that.
david estrada and roger levesque both looked great. brad evans looked great. zakuani boooooooo, move your butt. ljunberg is predictable. montero would play really well in say mexico, or argentina. maybe 2nd division italy. his style of play is like a slug. if he had the run for a fast break he would just slow the ball down and dance for a second and turn it over while he got muscled.
the big guy on the back line for portland was dominant. other than that they looked like ass.
sounders couldnt finish. tons of playmaking and no goals.
0-1-1 in cascadia this season. not what we were hoping for.
Jay….they may have dominated but they lost…at the end of the day that is all that matters ha…sounders fans did nothing but talk all the way up to this game…now there is nothing to talk about except for the fact that your sorry team lost! Enoug Said!
just got back from the game… where the sounders DOMINATED, the timbers looked terrible, and yet again, the sounders lose anyway. we’ve gotta put the freaking ball in the goal.
zakuani wasn’t trying, freddie still wanted perfect passes, montero tried maybe twice… but estrada looked great, parke looked amazing, and even evans played well.
obviously not happy with the score, but if zakuani’s just waiting to run until the regular season, and if the coming of nkufo kicks montero in the butt as it should (big IF), we’ll be playoff-bound again.
You DID say that but cut Tim some slack; he’s just all pumped up that his tree huggers finally beat the sounders….
Regardless, good crowd for an ugly night.
Sounders need to sign Kevin Souter. He was the only one shining on the depressing Seattle side.
Pathetic negative play from the Timbers. They had 11 behind the ball virtually the entire 2nd half. It’s a preseason game for christ’s sake, play some soccer.
Mighty Timbers!!! A preview of 2011.
Now you know how us Toronto FC Fans feel going in to our 4th season yet atleast you guy’s made the Playoffs we haven’t even done that yet … And you guy’s are complaining of 1-0 Freindly match that you guy’s can’t finish???? Come on guy’s! lol
I could have sworn I said that….what a dipsh!t
Just came back from Qwest Field where I wasted my time watching the Sounders lose to Portland! Seattle was pretty bad. Had all of the possession but absolutely TERRIBLE when it came to finishing.
Didn’t dominate the one thing most important in a match: the score.
Cronin’s ridiculous. I wish we could have held on to him in D.C.
Seattle dominated Portland….and still lost 1 nil… 18,000+ attendance for a rainy night pre-season weeknight match that had zero advertising…not bad!
Hey did everyone see that Deuce is back!? He came on as a sub against Juve in the 60th minute!
Sounders couldn’t even make a goal at of the chances they had. Their forwards were pretty shameless. The Timber’s defense was good, though. A couple mistakes, but Cronin did well to smooth them over.
ONE NIL TIMBERS
CHALK IT UP
I AM ~WAY~ TOO EXCITED FOR A MEANINGLESS RESULT FROM AN EXHIBITION MATCH BUT I DON’T CARE
Timbers win 1-0 over the Flounders in Seattle.
The game just ended – Portland wins 1-0.
Steve Cronin has been speculator tonight.
Yes, there’s not much going on here in Seattle. It’s raining pretty heavily and despite owning much of the possession, Seattle is still down by a goal. Portland’s goal came off a Tyrone Marshall turnover – a couple dribbles and a quick pass to Gabriel Obatoli and it was 1-0.
Seattle’s threatening here at the end, but nothing yet. With what looks like back-to-back shutouts against non-MLS opposition, Sigi Schmid can’t be happy. Even though it’s preseason, he is still playing Ljungberg, Montero, etc. Nkufo can’t come soon enough, eh?
Still 1-0 Timbers at the 89th minute. Timbers just made it 2-0, but hit the post. Very unlucky. Seattle with most of the possession.
You wanna bet?
Timbers off the post in 87th minute on empty net.
Ives tweeted it.
First pre-season games for the Timbers, only a week and a half into preseason, only 16 players available, and the Timbers are still leading the Flounders after 70 minutes 1-0.
Perhaps I missed it in all the posts on SBI today, but Dempsey came on in the 61st minute today.
I’m rooting for the Timbers. But I know the Sounders will win.
Simple. MLS vs. USL.
not bad, better than nothing
you can follow the coverage by the seattle times here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soundersfcblog/index.html
Preseason soccer, streamed through a cell phone? I’d rather read about DCU stadium newzzzzz
sounders have dominated possession, but a mistake by tyronne marshall gave the timbers the lead heading into halftime.
1-0 Timbers at halftime.
http://www.freedom970.com/Live-Stream/5458901
A guy who’s at the stadium is streaming through his cell phone. bad quality but you can hear the crowd and see the big crowd they have there. Bigger than what FC Dallas and NE get in a whole season: http://www.seasportinsider.com/
Anywhere we can watch this?
Nada from anybody?
Must be a slow day.