{"id":432591,"date":"2026-09-11T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432591\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:04:52","slug":"dallas-takes-on-the-portland-timbers-in-western-conference-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432591\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas takes on the Portland Timbers in Western Conference action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Timbers (9-10-5, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. FC Dallas<\/a> (11-6-7, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Frisco, Texas; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: FC Dallas -121, Portland +266, Draw<\/a> +301; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Portland Timbers face Dallas in Western Conference play.<\/p>\n

Dallas is 8-6-7 against Western Conference teams. Dallas is 29-0-4 when it scores more than two goals.<\/p>\n

The Timbers are 8-8-4 against Western Conference opponents. Kristoffer Velde<\/a> paces the fourth-ranked scoring team in the Western Conference with eight goals. The Timbers have scored 46.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the second meeting this season between the two teams. The last meeting ended tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Petar Musa<\/a> has 18 goals and two assists for Dallas. Logan Farrington<\/a> has three goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Velde has scored eight goals with five assists for the Timbers. Kevin Kelsy<\/a> has four goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dallas: 18-5-7, averaging 5.7 goals, 13.2 shots on goal and 11.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 6.0 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Timbers: 21-3-6, averaging 7.2 goals, 15.3 shots on goal and 16.2 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Dallas: Daniel (injured), Petar Musa (injured).<\/p>\n

Timbers: Juan David Mosquera Lopez (injured), Alexander Aravena<\/a> (injured), Brandon Bye<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Timbers (9-10-5, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. FC Dallas (11-6-7, fourth in the Western Conference) Frisco,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2124,148080,134494,134493,77423,136,30548],"class_list":["post-432591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fc-dallas","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026-final-draw","tag-kevin-kelsy","tag-kristoffer-velde","tag-logan-farrington","tag-mls","tag-petar-musa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432591","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=432591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}