Deadspin | Orlando City nip Timbers 1-0; unbeaten streak at 12

Duncan McGuire scored his first purpose of the season in a while ahead of halftime and host Orlando City preserved a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers on Saturday evening.

Eduard Atuesta assisted McGuire, whose tally helped Orlando (7-2-6, 27 issues) win its 3rd instantly in MLS and lengthen its league unbeaten run to 12 fits.

Pedro Gallese made two stops to stay his 7th blank sheet after an extraordinary beneficiant evening in a 3-2 house defeat to Nashville within the U.S. Open Cup spherical of 16 on Wednesday evening.

Maxime Crepeau made 3 saves for Portland (6-4-5, 23 issues), which stepped forward after halftime however hardly ever translated having extra ownership into transparent second-half probabilities.

The Timbers trailed 14-7 in general shot makes an attempt, and feature scored most effective two times throughout their closing 5 fits in all competitions. They’ve performed 228 mins and not using a purpose at the street in league play.

McGuire used to be as soon as a typical starter for Orlando, and after scoring 14 objectives in his rookie MLS marketing campaign for a time seemed to be heading for a European transfer.

But the play of Marco Pasalic and Luis Muriel have led to him getting used basically off the bench in 2025. He began Saturday for simply the 3rd time, probably on account of effort others exerted within the U.S. Open Cup defeat on Wednesday.

He put Orlando in entrance within the 39th minute after the hosts had ruled to that time.

The likelihood got here from the second one segment of an assault after the Timbers most effective in part cleared Ivan Angulo’s preliminary pass from the precise.

Atuesta took the ball down together with his frame simply past the precise nook of the penalty house, then dribbled to his left, after which slotted a low vertical cross into McGuire close to the nook of the 6-yard field.

McGuire reached it and fired a low end previous Crepeau from a rather tight attitude.

It used to be McGuire’s first purpose since Oct. 2, when he bagged his 10th of the 2024 common season.

–Field Level Media