The Portland Timbers score a very dramatic 3-2 win over Charlotte FC when they got a last-second game-winner on a goal scored on literally the last play of the match.<\/p>\n
In just the third minute, the visitors took the lead when Pep Biel<\/strong> made a nice run and cut across the top of the Timbers box, slotting a nice curling shot just inside the left post past James Pantemis<\/strong> to put Charlotte up 1-0.<\/p>\n In the 11th minute, Portland leveled it when Eric Izoita<\/strong> made a low cross that bounced loose in front of the goal, where Ariel Lassiter<\/strong> finished to tie it up.<\/p>\n Five minutes before the half, Lassiter had a nice look from about 15 yards out, slotting a shot between a Charlotte defender’s legs that found the bottom left corner of the goal perfectly, and the Timbers had a 2-1 lead at the break.<\/p>\n In the 69th minute, Charlotte tied the score when Luca de la Torre<\/strong> made a nice cross deep into the Timbers\u2019 box where Idan Toklomati<\/strong> got his foot to the ball first, putting home the equalizer.<\/p>\n But then, on the very last kick of the game, five minutes into stoppage time, Ian Smith<\/strong>‘s corner was headed towards goal by Cole Bassett<\/strong>, and then finished by a close-in header by a charging Alex Aravena<\/strong> to give the Timbers a 3-2 win as the referee blew the whistle before the match even restarted.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Portland Timbers score a very dramatic 3-2 win over Charlotte FC when they got a last-second game-winner on a goal scored on literally the last play of the match. In just the third minute, the visitors took the lead when Pep Biel made a nice run and cut across the top of the Timbers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10927","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\/10\/car102426-1024.JPG.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","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=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10933,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/10933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}