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Six Degrees: A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
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1) Our terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week started last Wednesday, when we travelled to Mexico City full of hope, only to be rather forcibly bounced from the CONCACAF Champions League in a 3-1 loss to Club America.
Going into the first leg a couple weeks ago, I thought the Timbers had a chance to make some noise and win a game at home. The 1-1 draw was a little disappointing, but at least I could take some solace in the fact that we kept it close. As I said in last week’s column, we proved we could hang with the big boys.
Six Degrees: Very Good, Very Bad
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Weird week, man. The first game gave us a beautiful evening at the park and a dominating win. Five days later, we got a completely impotent loss to a team everyone predicted would be at the bottom of the standings. As the great man once said, soccer is wild, y’all.
1) It’s hard for me to overstate how wonderful it was to be back at Providence Park last Tuesday for the Champions League game against CD Marathon. The weather was sublime, the sights and sounds were like old friends, and the soccer? The soccer was an utter delight. After a hit-or-miss first leg down in Honduras, in this second leg, the Timbers were all hits, no misses.