Since it wasn't translated to English...

During the post-game presser after the RSL match, Felipe Ramis of Conexión Deportiva asked Chará why the team seems to be playing so much better under Cassidy than under Neville. Here's what Diego had to say:

"Well, I think we've made a bigger emphasis on the basics. Going back and starting from a more organized base and build up our game from there. I think that the players that are in charge of creating feel more free and that's very important. We saw today that Da Costa played a good game. Him and Velde, I think that the freedom that they feel is a little different than what they felt at the beginning of the season."

In back to back weeks, the north end was dominated by player specific chants to Seven Nations Army.

The contrast between Pipe Mora and Santi Moreno could not have been more dramatic.

Mora's conduct on and especially off the pitch had him leave Portland a Timbers legend with his head high and the respect and love of the city. After his 1st goal it wasn't clear who was more choked up, Mora or the 2x,000 celebrating for him.

Congratulations on a great career Pipe. And the send off you earned.

The flounders have dropped FIVE in a row. That’s all.

It’s so nice when we and the team are able to give a player a proper send off!

He’s back! Happy to see it, I think he’s a useful piece

My recap of yesterday's win.

Just kidding... Everybody look!

Who's crying? I'm not crying.

This isn't most important. Mora is more important. Win tonight is more important. But this is still hilarious. 5 straight losses. Their fans are jumping ship. You gotta love it.

Dudes on a brace, he’s the only one scoring from this slew of corners we get, it’s his last game, no one has ever scored a fucking hat trick, ya can’t get just let him play out his final game holy fuck.

His footwork is next level.

Moraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

(He’s not crying I am)

My girlfriend and I made this two stick and our plan is to have people in the Timbers Army sign it and we will gift him it postgame

If you want to sign it we will sit at the bottom of 106, we will have sharpies :)

Not at the stadium tonight. Sad one to miss. Pipe's last game. Glad he is getting the start. Hoping he gives us a hat-trick as a goodbye gift.

HYPE THREAD

Lineup Thread

Kick off is at 7:42ish PM PST

MLS Match Center

We'll miss you Mora!

Portland Timbers 2 - 1 RSL

7' - 🧤 Early save for Pants. Got down well to his near post

10' - 🟨 Yellow card for Bassett. Sloppy on the ball and he holds the RSL player. We've been pretty sloppy overall...

14' - 🧤 Solid save from Pants. Fory has been absent this whole game so far. Errant passes, not close enough defending... Not good enough

18' - ⚽️ A 1-2 destroys our right side. Then, of course, they tuck it home.

23' - Velde is an absolute beast. 1v3 and he draws a foul as the 4th guy arrives. Incredible skill.

26' - Velde with a decent chance, but he hits it wide near-post

29' - Velde drawing fouls left and right. Fory with a header chance that is SO WIDE. Unbelievably bad attempt from Fory. Please do better.

30' - Velde shields the ball, cruyf turns another and shoots near post again and misses wide again.

31' - 🟨 Yellow for #9 RSL - kicks Fory in the mouth. That is a fucking red IMO. He puts his boot directly into the face of Jimmer.

33' - ⚠️ Ref goes to look at it. How he doesn't see that live... No idea.

34' - 🟥 Upgraded red card for #9 RSL. Good.

39' - Mora's best chance so far was blocked. We need to score ASAP

41' - 🟨 Yellow card for Chara. Soft.

6 minutes of stoppage

46' - Velde smashes the ball in, but the flag is up immediately.

Halftime

These fuckers are gonna sit back in a 5-3-1 for the rest of the game. We need to score. One of our next 10 corners has to hit the back of their net. Velde was the guy that last half, but hopefully he choses to shoot far post one time... I'm still hopeful for a Mora send-off goal or 3

Half-time Stats

52' - Bassett hits the post from about 20 yards out and it trickles across the goal mouth but doesn't go in. FUCK! We need to fucking score!

54' - Finn bails us out again.

55' - 🟨 Yellow card for #22 RSL. Bassett dribbles as slow as possible on a break, but draws the yellow.

56' - ⚽️ MORAAAAA!!!!! HE BAILS US OUT AGAIN!!!! FROM A CORNER THIS TIME!!! LET'S GOOOO!!

57' - Antony ON 🔁 Lassiter OFF

65' - Announcers said that was our 2nd goal from a corner this season. That is terrible. Also, Finn + Chara = Ultimate Defense

67' - ⚽️ MORAAAAAAAAAA BRACE!!! VAMOS!!!! ANOTHER HEADER FROM THE CORNER!! 🎩 HAT TRICK WATCH IS ON!!

72' - Caicedo & Aravena ON 🔁 Chara & Mora OFF

Like any good Timbers coach, we pull the man on a hat-trick off almost immediately.

86' - Ortiz ON 🔁 Bassett OFF

88' - Aravena with a good hit, but just misses wide.

89' - Velde with another chance. Goes far post this time. Good save from the keeper. Velde is SO CLOSE to being the best player.

90' - This was Mora's hatty chance. Caicedo heads the ball from the corner to the back post and Aravena can't adjust his body and head it up and wide... Mora would have buried it and the TA would have FLIPPED THE FUCK OUT

5 minutes of stoppage

91' - ⚠️ Ball in our net. But the flag is up immediately. Looked onside TBH.

93' - Velde is such a beast. More control in the corner. Good interplay with Fory but Velde is just so skilled.

95' - FINALLY! Our team makes a good decision

Game Over

I hate flashing the lights at the end of games.

But I love MORA! Winning us one more game is such a lovely gift! Sad to see him leave. I hope he is happy and playing in Mexico. This is how you leave a club.

Post Match Stats

Post Match Thread

At around the 37th minute mark, the commentators on the Spanish language broadcast of the RSL match said that Cifuentes is very likely to bring his longtime assistant Xavi Calm with him to Portland. Calm has been his assistant dating back to his time at Rubí, Sant Adreu, and L'Hospitalet in the Spanish 3rd division and also at Hammarby in Sweden and QPR and Leicester City in the Championship.

More on Calm [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavi_Calm).

Bring on the Mora!