PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Timbers 2 will try to claim their first points of the season on Sunday afternoon when they play host to Cascadia rivals Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 at Providence Park, with WFC2 coming off its best performance in its last outing. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. PT.

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Portland Timbers 2 news and notes

• Current record: 0-4-0, 0pts

• Portland remained rooted to the bottom of the Western Conference with its fourth consecutive defeat to start the season last Saturday as Orange County earned a 2-1 victory at Providence Park.

• All four of T2’s defeats to start the season have been one-goal games as the side has scored three goals and conceded seven to start the season.

• Portland is averaging 53 percent possession in its four contests so far, and has a rate of 416 passes per 90 minutes that has the side eighth in the league in total passes this season.

• Villyan Bijev, who claimed the USL Assists title a season ago, has still yet to record his first for the side this year, but does have a team-high seven chances created.

Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 news and notes

• Current record: 1-1-1, 4pts

• Vancouver swept to a 3-0 victory against Seattle Sounders FC 2 last Saturday at McLeod Athletic Park in the club’s home opener as late goals by Andy Thoma and Ben McKendry saw the side pull away.

• New Zealand international Deklan Wynne scored the opening goal of the game, his first as a professional, and was named to the USL Team of the Week on Tuesday.

• McKendry’s goal was his first of the season, with the central midfielder currently leading WFC2 in shots with 10, chances created with eight, and second in passes with 145 in three games.

• The shutout was Spencer Richey’s first of the season in three appearances for WFC2, with the goalkeeper recording a .750 save percentage early in the year.

Series Notes

• Portland and Vancouver split their four-game season series a year ago with WFC2 winning the first two meetings and T2 the remaining two.

Squads

• Portland – GK: Wade Hamilton, Jeff Attinella, Kendall McIntosh; D: Michael Amick, Lamar Batista, Kyle Bjornethun, Vytas Andriuskevicius, Zarek Valentin, Chance Myers, Amobi Okugo, Marco Farfan, Harold Hanson, Shaquille Jimenez, Max Ornstil; M: Victor Arboleda, Villyan Bijev, Blake Bodily, Neco Brett, Russell Cicerone, Dylan Damraoui, Tomas Granitto, Andre Lewis, Omar Mohamed, Jacob Montes, Jack Barmby; F: Jeremy Ebobisse, Augustine Williams

• Vancouver – GK: Spencer Richey, Sean Melvin, Mark Village; D: Jacob Nerwinski, Kadin Chung, Deklan Wynne, Christian Dean, Cole Seiler, Sem de Wit, Francis de Vries, Dominick Zator, Michael Baldisimo, Chris Serban; M: Deybi Flores, Ben McKendry, Thomas Gardner, David Norman Jr., William Seymore, Matthew Baldisimo, Marco Bustos, Patrick Metcalfe; F: Kyle Greig, Terran Campbell, Thomas Sanner, Gloire Amanda, Andrew Thoma, Theo Bair

Discipline

• Portland – None

• Vancouver – None

Officials

• REF: JEFF ARTHURHOLTZ

• AR1: Jason Perlewitz

• AR2: Lucas Brooks 

• 4TH: CJ Koll

Game hashtag:

• #PORvVAN

Twitter social handles

• Portland Timbers 2 – @TimbersFC2

• Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 – @WFC2