FC Dallas (7-4-4, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Timbers (5-8-2, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Portland +136, FC Dallas +167, Draw +267; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Kevin Kelsy leads the Portland Timbers into a matchup with Dallas after a two-goal performance against the Seattle Sounders.<\/p>\n
The Timbers are 4-7-1 in Western Conference play. Kelsy paces the sixth-ranked scoring team in the Western Conference with seven. The Timbers have scored 27 goals.<\/p>\n
Dallas is 4-4-4 in Western Conference games. Dallas ranks fourth in the Western Conference with 30 goals led by Logan Farrington with six.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Wednesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kelsy has scored seven goals with one assist for the Timbers. Cole Bassett has three goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Farrington has scored six goals and added two assists for Dallas. Ran Benjamin has two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Timbers: 15-10-5, averaging 6.0 goals, 16.5 shots on goal and 13.5 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Dallas: 19-5-6, averaging 6.0 goals, 12.3 shots on goal and 12.9 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Timbers: Gage Guerra (injured), Zac Mcgraw (injured), Juan David Mosquera Lopez (injured), Omir Fernandez (injured), Kristoffer Velde (injured).<\/p>\n
Dallas: Geovane Jesus (injured).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Dallas (7-4-4, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Timbers (5-8-2, 12th in the Western Conference) Portland,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,134495,134497,134494,134493,77423,134496,202,80831,196,43368,942,134492],"class_list":["post-380637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-geovane-jesus","tag-juan-david-mosquera","tag-kevin-kelsy","tag-kristoffer-velde","tag-logan-farrington","tag-omir-fernandez","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-portland-timbers","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40808-ap-oregon-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-zac-mcgraw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}