After losing its first two matches against Austin, both away, by an aggregate score of 7-2, Portland won its first home match against Austin, 3-0, on Decision Day last season. Including playoffs, Portland has an all-time record of W16 D5 L3 at home against Texas teams, compared to W3 D11 L14 in 28 matches in Texas.
For the seventh time in 12 seasons, the Timbers are winless through the first two matches of the season (D2). Portland failed to win the third match of the season in each of the previous six occasions it went winless in the first two, including during its first two runs to MLS Cup in 2015 and 2018.
Austin FC set an MLS record with 10 goals through two matches of a season after a pair of five-goal performances on the opening two weekends. This is just the seventh time in MLS history a team has scored five goals in consecutive matches, something no team has ever done in three straight games.
Yimmi Chará has scored in each of Portland’s first two matches this season, becoming the third player to score in the opening two matches of an MLS season for the Timbers after Diego Valeri (2020) and Gaston Fernandez (2014). No Timbers player has scored in the team’s first three games of a season.
oth Sebastián Driussi and Ethan Finley scored twice in Austin’s 5-1 win over Miami on Sunday. Prior to that match, only two Austin players had ever scored multiple goals in a match before (Cecilio DomÃnguez 3 times, Tomás Pochettino once).
