The Portland Timbers remain vigilant in their MLS Cup Playoff hunt as they again take to the road against the San Jose Earthquakes Saturday (7:30pm PT, ROOT SPORTS). Sitting at eighth in Western Conference table, here are five stats to know before the game.
5
Portland is the only team in MLS with five players who have scored six goals or more:
Will Johnson
(6),
Gaston Fernandez
(7) as well as
Fanendo Adi
,
Maximiliano Urruti
and
Diego Valeri
who all sit on 9 apiece. Combined, the group has contributed 22 assists as well. Altogether, the Timbers have scored 54 goals--good for third in all of MLS.
86 & 81
In nine games for the Timbers this season,
Ben Zemanski
has compiled third-best passing accuracy on the team at 86 percent. Even further, as Zemanski has completed 81 percent of his passes in the opponent's final third, fifth best among Portland players.
10,007
A workhorse in the center of the pitch buzzing box-to-box,
Diego Chara
has been a key mainstay for the Portland Timbers since his arrival from Colombia in 2011. After playing the full 90 last week against Toronto, Chara became the first player in the Timbers' MLS history to surpass 10,000 minutes in a Portland uniform.
Five
Fanendo Adi has scored nine goals for the Timbers this season, tying him for the team lead with the aformentioned Diego Valeri and Maximiliano Urruti. He's been an absolute monster on the road, knocking in five of his tallies while away from Providence Park.
8/2
San Jose has been at the bottom of the Western Conference for much of the summer, and haven't won a game since Aug. 2 when they beat Seattle, 1-0. Over the last ten games, San Jose has gone 0-4-6.
