PORTLAND TIMBERS vs NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION JELD-WEN FIELD, Portland, Ore. May 2, 2013 (WEEK 10, MLS Game #80) 7:30 p.m. PT (UDN; ROOT-NW; CSN-NE) A pair of teams coming off quality victories kick off the week when the Portland Timbers return home to face the New England Revolution at Jeld-Wen Field. The Timbers are coming off a 3-2 victory at Sporting Kansas City, their MLS club record undefeated streak now at six games. The Revolution put an end to a five-game winless streak last weekend, knocking off Philadelphia Union 2-0 at home. REFEREE: Jair Marrufo. AR1 (bench): Adam Garner; AR2 (opposite): Jeremy Hanson; 4th: Daniel Radford MLS Career: 148 games; FC/gm: 24.2; Y/gm: 3.1; R: 32; pens: 44 DISABLED LIST: NE: Kevin Alston SUSPENDED: none WARNINGS: SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: none SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: none INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none HEAD-TO-HEAD ALL-TIME (3 meetings): Timbers 1 win, 4 goals … Revolution 1 win, 2 goals … Ties 1 AT PORTLAND (3 meetings): Timbers 1 win, 3 goals … Revolution 0 wins, 1 goal … Ties 0 LAST YEAR (MLS) 3/24: NE 1, POR 0 (Sene 1) This is the only league meeting of the season between the two clubs. The teams have evenly split their three meetings all-time, each winning once with one draw. The Timbers won the only matchup at Jeld-Wen Field, a 3-0 victory on Sept. 16, 2011. Coaches record: Jay Heaps vs. POR: P1 W1 L0 D0 … Caleb Porter vs. NE: first game PORTLAND TIMBERS The Portland Timbers stretched their undefeated streak to six games in impressive fashion, coming back twice for a 3-2 victory against Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening at Sporting Park. The Timbers are in third place in the Western Conference with 13 points from 8 matches. LAST MATCH Sporting opened the scoring just 44 seconds into the game. Chance Myers ran onto Matt Besler's long throw-in and headed past Donovan Ricketts for the fastest goal ever at Sporting Park, and the third-fastest in Kansas City club history. But the lead didn't hold up long. After SKC goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen had to dive to parry away Rodney Wallace's blast, Ryan Johnson headed Diego Valeri's corner kick off Benny Feilhaber's head and into the roof of the net for the 24th-minute equalizer. Myers struck again just five minutes later, tapping the ball home after a long ball from Benny Feilhaber from a free kick was followed by a short square ball from center back Aurelien Collin in the heart of the area. Yet in the 33rd minute, Diego Valeri set Ryan Johnson completely free behind the KC defense. He drove into the area unmolested before sliding the ball across to Darlington Nagbe, who tapped into the empty goal for 2-2. The Timbers hit for the winner in the 58th minute. Diego Chara capitalized on a loose ball in midfield and slotted a through ball to a streaking Wallace, who slipped the ball past Nielsen from an angle. Timbers head coach Caleb Porter made no changes to the team that gained a 1-1 draw with the San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium PORTLAND TIMBERS (4-2-3-1): Donovan Ricketts - Jack Jewsbury, Mikael Silvestre, Mamadou Danso (Andrew Jean-Baptiste 71), Michael Harrington - Diego Chara, Will Johnson - Diego Valeri (Frederic Piquionne 78) - Darlington Nagbe, Ryan Johnson (Ben Zemanski 72), Rodney Wallace. TEAM NEWS The Timbers extended their undefeated streak to six games, a club record in MLS, with the win at Sporting Kansas City. The undefeated streak is the second-longest in MLS this season, behind FC Dallas’ seven-game run. “We didn’t steal the result – we matched them toe-to-toe tonight for 90 minutes. I thought we gave them a lot of problems and they had their moments, their chances as well,” said Timbers head coach Caleb Porter. “We
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