The home team has won only two of the last 14 regular season meetings between the Timbers and Sounders (D3 L9), though each team won at home during the 2018 playoffs. Portland is unbeaten in six straight regular season matches at Seattle (W4 D2), the longest such streak at the Sounders in MLS history.
Seattle’s turnaround continued on Saturday with a 2-0 win at Toronto, the team’s sixth win in its last nine games (D1 L2). The Sounders have yet to put together much defensive consistency, however, as they haven’t kept clean sheets in consecutive games since May 12-16, 2021.
The Timbers enter their match against Seattle on a season-long four-match unbeaten run (W2 D2). Portland has scored multiple goals in each of its last three matches after doing so just four times in its first 16 league games in 2022.
Raúl Ruidíaz has scored 10 goals in 11 MLS games against the Timbers (incl.playoffs), tied for the most of any player against any single opponent since Ruidíaz debuted in MLS in July 2018 (Carlos Vela – also 10 goals vs LA Galaxy). Ruidíaz has scored at least twice against Portland in all four of his MLS seasons.
Portland came from 2-0 down in the final 30 minutes to earn a point at Nashville on Sunday. It marked the first time in the club’s MLS history that the Timbers earned a point on the road when trailing by multiple goals in the 60th minute or later, having lost each of the previous 56 such games.
