Minnesota beats Timbers 3-2

MINNEAPOLIS — Romario Ibarra scored two goals and Minnesota United beat the Portland Timbers 3-2 on Saturday night to snap a seven-game winless streak — including five losses.

Minnesota (10-16-3) hadn’t won since beating Los Angeles FC 5-1 on July 22.

Ibarra, a 23-year old who joined the team on July 9 and came in with one goal in six MLS appearances, tapped home a pass from Darwin Quintero to open the scoring in the 18th minute. He ran onto a long, arcing feed from Fernando Bob, cut back to evade a defender and rolled it to Ibarra for the empty-net finish from the center of the area.

He side-netted a through ball from Quintero in the 36th and Michael Boxall put away a corner kick, that deflected off defender Liam Ridgewell, by Rasmus Schuller to make it 3-0 going into halftime.

Alvas Powell and Sebastian Blanco each scored in the second half for Portland (13-9-8). The Timbers are winless, with four losses, in their last six road games.

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MINNESOTA 3, TIMBERS 2

Portland 0 2—2

Minnesota 3 0—3

First half—1, Minnesota, Ibarra, 2 (Quintero), 18th minute; 2, Minnesota, Ibarra, 3 (Quintero), 36th; 3, Minnesota, Boxall, 2 (Schuller), 42nd.

Second half—4, Portland, Powell, 2, 55th; 5, Portland, Blanco, 7 (Flores), 79th.

Goalies—Portland, Steve Clark, Kendall Mcintosh; Minnesota, Bobby Shuttleworth, Matt Lampson.

Yellow Cards—Minnesota, Maximiano, 70th. Portland, Blanco, 71st.

Red Cards—Minnesota, Fernando Bob, 89th.

A—24,525.

Lineups

Minnesota—Bobby Shuttleworth; Michael Boxall, Francisco Calvo, Brent Kallman, Eric Miller; Fernando Bob, Miguel Ibarra, Romario Ibarra (Angelo Rodriguez, 39th), Maximiano, Rasmus Schuller; Carlos Darwin Quintero (Collen Warner, 90th).

Portland—Steve Clark; Julio Cascante, Jorge Flores, Alvas Powell, Liam Ridgewell; Sebastian Blanco, Andres Flores (Diego Valeri, 73rd), David Guzman; Samuel Armenteros (Jeremy Ebobisse, 82nd), Tomas Conechny (Diego Chara, 46th), Andy Polo.