It was only after we'd been back from tournament a day that I got to read the Big O article in advance of the Timbers' friendly against City on Saturday night. There was much discussion of the benefit and confidence building from playing up against a team of EPL standing.
I am reminded, though, of frequent comments in the press about how mental the Game is and how teams can get themselves in a scoring slump from too much anxiety or have similar problems at the other end. That led me to wonder, as the season is about half done, what the effect of a 3-0 game will be in furthering the goal scoring efforts as the Timbers head off on a four game road trip.
Hope for the best of course. But I do have to wonder. The Man City website write-up was politely respectful but brief about the home team's performance in the game. Eminently English.
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