Since the league match, the Timbers strolled to victory in the third round of the U.S. Open Cup with a 5-1 win against USL PRO Wilmington Hammerheads. Piquionne scored four goals – all before halftime. He became the 11th player in the U.S. Open Cup’s modern era (since 1995) to score four goals in an Open Cup game, the third MLS player to do so. Here’s the Timbers team: Milos Kocic, Ryan Miller, Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Futty Danso, Michael Harrington (Rauwshan McKenzie, 74), Ben Zemanski, Darlington Nagbe (Sal Zizzo, 46), Will Johnson, Jose Valencia, Frederic Piquionne (Sebastian Rincón, 46), Kalif Alhassan For the international break, the Timbers will be without four regulars, two of their top four goal scorers in forwards Ryan Johnson (Jamaica) and Rodney Wallace (Costa Rica), and defender Futty Danso (The Gambia) and goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts (Jamaica). “We’re always trying to make sure we’re ready and that we’ve got bullets in the barrel because in this business you never know what’s going to happen,” Timbers head coach Caleb Porter said. “We have players pretty much ready at every position in case something happens.”
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