Little to separate Portland Timbers and Houston Dynamo

Portland Timbers and Houston Dynamo face each other this Saturday at the for a match of the Grp.East of the MLS.

Portland Timbers head into this clash on the back of a 4x1 defeat against CF Montréal (Major League Soccer 2023), whilst Houston Dynamo had a fantastic 5x1 win over Colorado Rapids (Major League Soccer 2023). On arrival at this matchday, Joseph Miles's team has recorded a nine-game unbeaten sequence in the MLS 2023. When analysing the previous encounters between the teams, Portland Timbers and Ben Olsen's team have faced each other twenty-five times, with Joseph Miles's team holding the advantage: 10 victories, against 7 victories of Houston Dynamo.

In the MLS, twenty-four games were played between the two teams, with 9 wins for Portland Timbers, 8 draws and 7 wins for Houston Dynamo.

Considering the MLS 2023, from Portland Timbers's most influential players, Dario Zuparic is the most used player in a total of 30 games (2700 min). Evander is the current best scorer with 9 goals. As for Houston Dynamo, Artur participated in 33 games, and Steve Clark is the one with more minutes played (2880). Amine Bassi is their current best scorer with 10 goals.

The last meeting between the two teams ended with Houston Dynamo winning 5x0. It is expected to be an exciting clash, that can go either way.