Portland Timbers

At home the Portland Timbers are 7-3-4 this MLS season, a 1.7-unit profit for anyone backing them there. Away they are 2-2-9, and the same bet is 3.4 units down.

Home, yes. Away, no.

Back Portland at home; leave them on the road. Fourteen home games have returned 1.7 units, with seven clubs doing better at home. The best of it is the home underdog spot: five games, 3-1-1 and +2.95 units, with wins over Columbus Crew at +165, Los Angeles FC at +160 and Real Salt Lake at +170. All nine favorite prices were home games too. Thirteen away games, every one as underdog, have cost 3.4, and 21 clubs have done better away. Both road wins needed a long price: 2-1 at San Diego FC at +360 and 5-1 at Seattle Sounders FC at +400.

The whole season

Across 27 games: 9-5-13 and 1.7 units down, with 11 clubs ahead of that. Portland score 1.78 goals a game, a figure eight clubs beat, and concede 1.89. As underdog, 18 games at 5-3-10 and 0.45 down; as favorite, 9 games at 4-2-3 and 1.25 down. The shortest price they won at was -215, 6-0 over Sporting Kansas City. The shortest they lost at was -145, 2-1 at home to Austin FC.

July made the money

July went 2-1-0 for 4.7 units: 5-1 in Seattle, 2-2 with FC Dallas and 2-1 over Real Salt Lake. March (0-1-2, -3.0) and May (1-1-3, -3.53) cost the most; May ended with a 3-1 home defeat to San Jose at +130, as favorite.

Who they beat, who beat them

Seattle and San Diego lost both meetings, worth 5.0 and 4.43 units. Vancouver Whitecaps FC and San Jose Earthquakes won both of theirs. The total splits 14 under and 13 over; we take no side of it.

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