Recap: Portland loses to Sporting Kansas City 1-0  Casey Sapio-
USA TODAY Sports  Portland loses their first ever preseason game
1-0 to Kansas City, and Merritt Paulson owes someone dinner.
The Portland Timbers' formation for this game was a 4-2-3-1 with
the only changes from the first game being Mikaël Silvestre in
place of David Horst and Sal Zizzo in for the injured Jack
Jewsbury (Announcers mentioned it was a hamstring strain). The
game started out choppy with a lot of fouls and errant passes as
both teams looked like they were in preseason form.  As the game
settled down Sporting Kansas City created the first shot with a
header that was right to Donovan Ricketts. Portland's first
chance did not come until much later in the game but they too
settled into Caleb Porter's possession style and started to pass
the ball around and among the back 6 players. Even though they
possessed the ball their was no meaningful possession and the
ball stayed mainly on Portland's side of the midfield line.  If
and when Portl