Timbers, LAFC ready to go back to work in U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals

A day after playing more than 90 minutes of scoreless sun-drenched soccer against the Los Angeles Football Club, the Portland Timbers messed around at Santa Monica beach.
“If you come to L.A. and you stay a couple of extra days between games and you’re so close to the beach I think it’s normal for the guys to spend time there,” said Timbers head coach Giovanni Savarese, whose players wrestled in the surf on Monday ahead of their second match in just four days ag