© duplicate; Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports MLSsoccer team Twitter Facebook Copy Portland Timbers demonstrator Jaroslaw Niezgoda will miss the rest of the 2023 MLS season after experiencing a torn ACL, the club introduced Wednesday. The 28-year-old Poland native obtained hurt in Portland's defeat at Houston Dynamo FC last weekend. He will certainly undertake plastic surgery in the coming weeks and also his timeline for return is about 9 months. This is Niezgoda's 2nd long-term knee injury after tearing his ACL in November 2020-- a setback during his initial period in Portland upon joining from Legia Warsaw. A Designated Gamer, Niezgoda has 20 objectives and 4 assists in 80 games (38 starts) across 4 periods. He was limited to 634 mins played this year. Without Niezgoda, Portland have Franck Boli, Felipe Mora, Nathan Fogaan as well as Dairon Asprilla as alternatives at demonstrator. Portland just recently split ways with head train Giovanni Savarese as well as have named Miles Joseph as interim head instructor, wanting to ascend right into the Western Conference's Audi MLS Cup Playoffs photo (12th location; 26 factors). MLSsoccer staff -. Florin Monzn T-Shirt