Portland Timbers(7-5-5)
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AC St Louis
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AC St Louis(4-10-4)
The Timbers travel to St. Louis for the first time this Wednesday. It is our third match with AC St. Louis, as we won the first meeting 3-nil back in April and then tied them 1-1 in May. AC has been struggling on several fronts with financial trouble that put the team's future in doubt and poor play that has resulted in a 4-10-4 record.
The Timbers are red hot at moment fresh from a huge win in Vancouver and on a 5 game unbeaten streak. St. Louis won on Saturday, in a 1-nil match at home against Crystal Palace Baltimore. Earlier this month AC, destroyed the Impact in a 3 nil victory at home, but Montreal reversed that score just 11 days later when St. Louis went to Saputo Stadium.
St. Louis has the least amount of goals scored by any team this year with only 14 goals in 18 games. They also have allowed some 27 goals against them in those 18 games. This is the second match of a four game road trip and this would be a great game for someone other than Ryan Pore, to carry the burden of getting the ball in the net in league play. Pore leads the Timbers and the league with 11 goals, while five other Timbers have one goal each. Make some match predictions in our forums.
Players To Watch
Luke Kreamalmeyer - The former Timber has 2 goals and 4 assists. Also, was very impressive in US Open Cup play.
Mike Ambersley - Leads the team with 3 goals and scored the only goal on Saturday's win over Baltimore.
Alec Dufty - Goalkeeper has had some solid games blocking shot after shot.
YouTube links of recent AC St. Louis play
Vancouver 1, AC St. Louis - Some big saves by the AC keeper.
Aztex 2, Ac St. Louis 0 - Check out the save by the defender around the 20 second mark.
NSC Minnesota 2, AC St. Louis 2 - NSC score twice in the final minutes to steal the point.
Timbers 2, AC St. Louis - Pore scores 18 seconds in.
Check out then AC St Louis Fanatic blog, they do an excellent job covering the team.
Pore scoring 18 seconds into that game is one of my favorite moments of all time. To just blow them out of the water like that, the season felt like it was putty in our hands.
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