{"id":10682,"date":"2026-04-12T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=10682"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T18:40:46","slug":"late-goal-steals-timbers-win-over-lafc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2026\/04\/12\/late-goal-steals-timbers-win-over-lafc\/","title":{"rendered":"Late goal steals Timbers win over LAFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers got a goal deep in stoppage time to secure a 2-1 win over Los Angeles FC on a bright Saturday afternoon at Providence Park.&nbsp;<strong> Kristoffer Velde<\/strong> and <strong>Kevin Kelsy<\/strong> scored for the Timbers, while <strong>Jude Terry<\/strong> had the lone goal for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>In the 32nd minute, <strong>Kristoffer Velde<\/strong> made a nice run to the top of the LAFC box, and then fired a low shot just inside the left post, and the Timbers had grabbed a 1-0 lead.&nbsp; This was the first goal LAFC had given up in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>That lead would last until just after halftime, when in the 49th minute, LAFC&#8217;s <strong>Jude Terry<\/strong> hit a beautiful curing shot from just outside the box into the top right corner, the 17 year old&#8217;s first ever MLS goal, and the game was drawn at 1-1.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 87th minute, it appeared LAFC had taken a late lead, but a VAR review confirmed the pass to the LAFC player who made the goal-scoring cross was in an offside position, and the goal was taken off the board.<\/p>\n<p>But the Timbers still had a surprise in store for LAFC, when in the 96th minute, a cross from Velde found <strong>Brandon Bye<\/strong> at the far post, and his header back across the goal mouth was put into the net by a diving header from <strong>Kevin Kelsy<\/strong>, giving the Timbers the late 2-1 lead, which would be the final, giving LAFC their first loss of the season.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers got a goal deep in stoppage time to secure a 2-1 win over Los Angeles FC on a bright Saturday afternoon at Providence Park.&nbsp; Kristoffer Velde and Kevin Kelsy scored for the Timbers, while Jude Terry had the lone goal for the visitors. In the 32nd minute, Kristoffer Velde made a nice run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos-mls","category-timbers-mls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lafc041126-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10685,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions\/10685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}