After losing 1-0 to Seattle Sounders FC at CenturyLink Stadium in April, the Timbers were looking to build on their impressive U.S. Open Cup win over their rivals when they played host to the Sounders at Providence Park on June 28 in MLS regular-season play.
Darlington Nagbe opened the scoring early, sending a rocket past the outstretched arms of Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei in only the 12th minute of the match.
However, the Sounders equalized before halftime when midfielder Lamar Neagle got his boot on the end of a curving free kick.
After Neagle's goal, it looked as if the game might go back-and-forth, but the Timbers came out in the second half ready to take the full three points from their rivals.
In the 74th minute, Fanendo Adi scored the first of his two goals, powering a Nagbe pass right around Frei. Just two minutes later, he added his second, a low, driven effort from the top of the box that completely fooled Frei. After his second goal, Adi jumped up onto Timber Joey's rostrum, grabbed his chainsaw, and began pantomiming Joey's iconic log-cutting celebration.
Like that, the Timbers had increased their lead by two goals, but they weren't done yet.
In the first minute of second-half stoppage time, Rodney Wallace took a pass into the box onto his left foot and sent it into the upper left corner of the goal. Less than two minutes later the referee blew his whistle on full time, a 4-1 Timbers victory over their fiercest rivals.
