Lineups:
Columbus Crew – Andy Gruenebaum, Sebastian Miranda, Eric Gehrig, Josh Williams, Nemanja Vukovic, (Shaun Francis, 84) Tony Tchani, Danny O’Rourke, Milovan Mirosevic, Eddie Gaven, Emilio Renteria (Bernardo Anor, 79), Ethan Finlay (Justin Meram, 79).
Substitutes not used: Matt Lampson, Chad Marshall, Cole Grossman, Kirk Urso.
Portland Timbers – Troy Perkins, Jack Jewsbury, Hanyer Mosquera, Mamadou Danso, Mike Chabala, Franck Song’o (Eric Alexander, 75), Lovel Palmer, Diego Chara, Rodney Wallace (Mike Fucito, 82), Darlington Nagbe, Kris Boyd.
Substitutes not Used: Joseph Bendik, Eric Brunner, Steven Smith, Sal Zizzo, Jorge Perlaza.
MATCH RECAP
Disciplinary
|
POR |
50' |
Lovel Palmer |
Foul |
yellow |
|
CLB |
57' |
Sebastian Miranda |
Foul |
yellow |
|
POR |
75' |
Franck Songo'o |
Foul |
yellow |
|
POR |
77' |
Diego Chara |
Foul |
yellow |
Defender Josh Williams
Thoughts on the game: “It was a battle from the first minute to the 90th minute. Tough place to play, but this is what it’s all about, coming in here, playing in front of 20,000 like that. [Portland] has some big guys who battle and it’s a fair result. We’ll take the point, coming in here. We’d like to have three, but we’ll take the point for the environment we were in.”
Thoughts on the atmosphere: “This was my first time. Last year I didn’t make the trip. We practiced here yesterday and everyone was pretty impressed with the facilities. We tried to imagine it all filled up and some of the new guys like Eric [Gehrig] in the back with me, this was our first time so we knew it was going to be crucial to talk, yell, yell to each other. A couple times we got mixed up from the noise, but I thought we played pretty well and stuck together and played good team defense.
On battling Boyd: “That guy’s tough, he’s tough. He’s definitely one of the more physical forwards, but I liked it. I like mixing it up. Him and Futty too, on free kicks were talking trash, but I got a lot of respect for those guys. Those are big boys and they’re tough to handle.”
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