St. Louis City celebrated their U.S. Open Cup victory last Wednesday before their match at home against Portland but sadly forward Kristoffer Velde scored a goal in each half and added an assist to lead Portland to a 3-2 victory over St. Louis City on Wednesday night in front of 22,000 fans at Energize Park.

Both teams were scoreless in until Norwegian National Velde found the back of the net on the 42nd minute to give Portland a 1-0 led. Then 3 minutes later Velde found midfielder David Da Costa for his sixth goal of the season as the Tmbers extended their lead to 2-0. Then Velde notched is ninth goal of the season thanks to the assist from Da Costa to make it 3-0.

St. Louis would rally back in the 58th minute when Daniel Edelman scored his career-high fifth goal with assists from first-year midfielder Carlo Holse to make it 2-1. Then Rafael Navarro added his ninth goal of the season during the first minute of stoppage time but it was too late as Portland held on to a 3-2 victory over St. Louis.

Portland now has pulled within two points of the final playoff spot in the Western Conference with two matches remaining while St. Louis after their league record 19th straight unbeaten streak have lost 3 straight games and look to get back on the winning column this Saturday as they play their final home match against San Diego FC.