The Portland Thorns rallied from an early deficit, then took the lead in the second half, but a Gotham FC goal would level the score in a 2-2 final. <\/p>\n
Former Thorn Midge Purce<\/strong> gave Gotham the lead only two minutes into the match, But in the 21st minute, Renee Lyles<\/strong>, playing in her NWSL first match, chipped the Gotham keeper and inside the left post to level the score at 1-1.<\/p>\n In the 53rd minute, the Thorns would take the lead when Jessie Fleming<\/strong>‘s shot from the top of the box was deflected and into the right side of the goal, and the Thorns had a 2-1 lead. But just nine minutes later, Gotham leveled the score when forward Sam Kerr<\/strong> recovered for a second chance at a shot when her first shot from a corner was blocked.<\/p>\n In the 73rd minute, Portland’s Jayden Perry<\/strong> was given a red card, but the Thorns would hold on for the 2-2 draw.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Portland Thorns rallied from an early deficit, then took the lead in the second half, but a Gotham FC goal would level the score in a 2-2 final. Former Thorn Midge Purce gave Gotham the lead only two minutes into the match, But in the 21st minute, Renee Lyles, playing in her NWSL first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-gallery-thorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/goth072426-1024s.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","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=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10763,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions\/10763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}