{"id":949155,"date":"2026-07-21T07:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/949155\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:20:16","slug":"kelsy-and-the-portland-timbers-host-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/949155\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsy and the Portland Timbers host Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Dallas (7-4-4, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Timbers (5-8-2, 12th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Portland +136, FC Dallas +167, Draw +267; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Kevin Kelsy leads the Portland Timbers into a matchup with Dallas after a two-goal performance against the Seattle Sounders.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>The teams meet Wednesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Farrington has scored six goals and added two assists for Dallas. Ran Benjamin has two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Timbers: Gage Guerra (injured), Zac Mcgraw (injured), Juan David Mosquera Lopez (injured), Omir Fernandez (injured), Kristoffer Velde (injured).<\/p>\n<p>Dallas: Geovane Jesus (injured).<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":834861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,382108,382110,147662,382107,78397,382109,223492,78395,223490,286666,324435,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,382106],"class_list":["post-949155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","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-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zac-mcgraw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116956759587312675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}