{"id":10793,"date":"2026-08-09T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2026-08-09T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:14:02","slug":"timbers-play-tight-game-with-club-america-but-late-goal-finally-secures-3-1-win-for-mexican-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2026\/08\/09\/timbers-play-tight-game-with-club-america-but-late-goal-finally-secures-3-1-win-for-mexican-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers play tight game with Club Am\u00e9rica, but late goal finally secures 3-1 win for Mexican squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers held very tight for much of the match until giving up a late breakaway goal, and would fall 3-1 to <span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Club Am\u00e9rica.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the 6th minute, <strong>Brian Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> put the visitors in the lead on a brilliant free kick from just outside the box that curled just inside the left post, and <span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Club Am\u00e9rica<\/span><\/span> had a 1-0 lead.&nbsp; But 13 minutes later, Portland&#8217;s <strong>Kristoffer Velde<\/strong> stole the ball deep in the opponent&#8217;s end, and slid the ball low past the keeper to level it at 1-1, which would be the score at the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the 63rd minute a few bounces would fall <span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Club Am\u00e9rica<\/span><\/span>&#8216;s way when a shot deflected off a defender, then off the right post, before<strong> Isa\u00edas Violante<\/strong> finished into a largely open net, and the Mexican side was up 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers pushed hard to equalize, but could not find the back of the net, and in the 88th minute, <strong>\u00d3scar Perea<\/strong> slipped in behind the Timbers defense, which was pushing forward, and finished to put the visitors up 3-1, which would be the result.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers held very tight for much of the match until giving up a late breakaway goal, and would fall 3-1 to Club Am\u00e9rica. In the 6th minute, Brian Rodr\u00edguez put the visitors in the lead on a brilliant free kick from just outside the box that curled just inside the left post, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10793","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\/08\/cam080926-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","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=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10796,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions\/10796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}