{"id":209,"date":"2011-05-22T03:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/main\/?p=209"},"modified":"2011-05-22T03:27:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T03:27:56","slug":"fortress-timbers-still-perfect-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2011\/05\/22\/fortress-timbers-still-perfect-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortress! Timbers still perfect at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the Portland Timbers, in their inaugural Major League Soccer season, there is no place like home as after five league matches at the renovated JELD-WEN Field, the Timbers are still perfect with five wins, and three straight shutouts, all by a 1-0 score.\u00a0 The latest victim would be the Columbus Crew when after a lackluster first half for both teams, the Timbers would break out early in the second half on a headed goal by former Crew defender Eric Brunner.\u00a0 The Timbers kept a clean sheet with the help of a spectacular reaction save by Troy Perkins late in the first half, and a kind post keeping out a Crew shot late in the second half, as the Timbers move to a tie for second place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Match report:<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/timbers\/clb052111.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/timbers\/clb052111.htm\">http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/timbers\/clb052111.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos only:<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/timbers\/clb052111-pics.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/timbers\/clb052111-pics.htm\">http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/timbers\/clb052111-pics.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timbers match report:<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/recap-brunner-punishes-old-team-timbers-top-crew-1-0\" href=\"http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/recap-brunner-punishes-old-team-timbers-top-crew-1-0\">http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/recap-brunner-punishes-old-team-timbers-top-crew-1-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quotes and news:<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/quotes-notes-timbers-1-crew-0-may-21-2011\" href=\"http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/quotes-notes-timbers-1-crew-0-may-21-2011\">http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/quotes-notes-timbers-1-crew-0-may-21-2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the numbers<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/numbers-timbers-1-crew-0-may-21-2011\" href=\"http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/numbers-timbers-1-crew-0-may-21-2011\">http:\/\/portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2011\/05\/numbers-timbers-1-crew-0-may-21-2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Match highlights:<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/videos?catid=1822&amp;id=15028\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/videos?catid=1822&amp;id=15028\">http:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/videos?catid=1822&amp;id=15028<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Timbers celebrate the opening goal\" src=\"http:\/\/soccercityusa.com\/images\/stories\/clb052111-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Portland Timbers, in their inaugural Major League Soccer season, there is no place like home as after five league matches at the renovated JELD-WEN Field, the Timbers are still perfect with five wins, and three straight shutouts, all by a 1-0 score.\u00a0 The latest victim would be the Columbus Crew when after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-match-reports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}