St. Louis City Interim Manager David Crichle will try to win a continuous victory when he goes to a Portland Timbers side that returns to a well -qualified weekend.
St. Louis City’s 2–1 domestic victory over the San Jose earthquake stopped the 11-match win (0-8-3) in league play, resulting in the manager Olof Melburg dismissed on charges of half a season.
Joao Claus and Eduard Lowen scored their second goals of the season, and Claus also earned a penalty in the second-half stop time, which Lowen converted to St. Louis City (3-8-5, 14 points), which is a strict need.
Joseph Martinez’s matchwinner, which was leveled to San Jose of Martinez, came to the matchwinner. And for Crichala, who was promoted by his role as the head coach of St. Louis’s reserved side in MLS, this was the result of a more aggressive mentality.
“Yes, he equaled late and gave us some adverseness,” Krichle said Postgame. “That’s fine. We are changing things around here. We do not sit back in those moments, we go and try and win a football game. And that’s what they have done.”
This was only the fourth time when St. Louis scored several goals in the 2025 league match, eight times when he failed to score.
Meanwhile, Portland (7-4–5, 26 points) is coming from a rare 10-day trim of a rare 10-day trim after a 2–1 domestic victory on Colorado Rapids on 28 May.
Antony and Kevin Calsey scored their fifth MLS goals of the season, in which Kelsey’s Tally was coming in the 76th minute and Ven Frederick’s violent challenge reduced Colorado to 10 men exactly seven minutes after.
Kelsey’s winner marked for the first time in seven matches that Portland scored several goals in a league game, with a dry run back by the end of April. And it can come on ideal time to promote morale.
“I want to say it really liked it,” Timbers Boss Phil Neville said about the extended break. “We were on this treadmill of the game after the game after the game, and I think there was a huge meaning after the Colorado game, one, the result was good, and two, it was that the players were running a little empty.”
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