{"id":3360,"date":"2017-10-15T23:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2017-10-18T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T23:53:54","slug":"timbers-continue-strong-home-form-with-4-0-win-over-dc-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2017\/10\/15\/timbers-continue-strong-home-form-with-4-0-win-over-dc-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers continue strong home form with 4-0 win over DC United"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Timbers continued their strong series of results at home with a 4-0 win over DC United on Sunday, their fifth straight win at Providence Park, and second straight shutout.  The Timbers have outscored their opponents 14-2 over that span.  Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco<\/strong> would score twice for the Timbers while Diego Valeri<\/strong> and Alvas Powell<\/strong> would also score, while Jeff Attinella<\/strong> had five strong saves to earn the shutout.<\/p>\n

The match was quiet for much of the first half with DC’s  Zolt\u00e1n Stieber<\/strong> strike from 25 yards out in the 43rd minute being the first good chance for either side, with Jeff Attinella<\/strong> needing a last-second reaction save to keep the match scoreless.  <\/p>\n

In the 45th minute, the Timbers nearly grabbed the lead when Alvas Powell’<\/strong>s run into the box and low shot forced a save from DC United goalkeeper Steve Clark<\/strong>, and with the DC keeper out of the goal, David Guzm\u00e1n<\/strong> had a chance to put the ball into the net but it was kept out but a DC defender.<\/p>\n

But in first half stoppage time would find that opening goal when Clark fouled Timbers forward Darren Mattocks<\/strong> in the box, and Diego Valeri<\/strong> stepped up<\/a> and slipped the penalty kick just inside the left post<\/a> to give the Timbers the 1-0 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

In the 49th minute, Attinella would make a spectacular double-save when DC’s Luciana Acosta<\/strong>‘s header was saved well, only to fall to Patrick Mullins<\/strong> whose close-in shot forced a second save.  <\/p>\n

But one minute later the Timbers would add another goal when Powell would cut back across to the corner of the DC box, curling a shot around Clark and into the lower left corner of the net to give the Timbers the 2-0 lead<\/a>.  Ten minutes later Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco<\/strong> would find himself with a chance from nearly the same spot as Powell had scored from, after Valeri played a soft pass right to his run, and like Powell’s shot, Blanco’s curling shot<\/a> found the left side of the goal, this time just under the crossbar<\/a>, and the Timbers had widened the lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n

Attinella would make another spectacular save for the Timbers in the 82nd minute, with Lloyd Sam<\/strong>‘s shot from distance forcing a tip save over the bar to maintain the clean sheet.  But the Timbers would add one more goal four minutes later when Blanco jumped on a loose ball and tapped the ball around Clark<\/a> and then blasted into the open net for his second goal, and the final score in the Timbers 4-0 win over DC United.<\/p>\n

Jeff Attinella<\/strong> had five saves while keeping a clean sheet while Steve Clark<\/strong> had three saves for DC.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Portland Timbers continued their strong series of results at home with a 4-0 win over DC United on Sunday, their fifth straight win at Providence Park, and second straight shutout.  The Timbers have outscored their opponents 14-2 over that span.  Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco would score twice for the Timbers while Diego Valeri and Alvas Powell would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dcu101517-24.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","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=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}