{"id":398,"date":"2012-04-07T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2012-04-07T23:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T06:59:15","slug":"timbers-cant-hold-lead-again-fall-flat-in-2-1-loss-to-chivas-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2012\/04\/07\/timbers-cant-hold-lead-again-fall-flat-in-2-1-loss-to-chivas-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers can’t hold lead again, fall flat in 2-1 loss to Chivas USA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kris Boyd scores the lone Timbers goal in a disappointing loss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Portland Timbers came into their match against Chivas USA looking for a positive result after losing a 2-1 lead last week vs. Real Salt Lake on two late goals, ending up at the short end of a 3-2 score. And though the Timbers got off to a good start with a Kris Boyd<\/strong> goal, the Timbers would concede a goal early in the second half, and never seemingly recovered, and would end up giving up a late goal and would fall 2-1 to Chivas USA in front of another sold-out crowd at JELD-WEN Field.<\/p>\n

The Timbers had the first good chance of the match in the sixth minute, when Darlington Nagbe<\/strong> had a good look on a run down the right side, but his blast was well over the crossbar. Seven minutes later, it was Portland\u2019s Eric Alexander<\/strong> making a nice run, eluding several defenders before finding Nagbe, but the Timbers forward\u2019s strike was right at Chivas goalkeeper Dan Kennedy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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But two minutes later, the Timbers would take advantage of a Chivas mistake to take the early lead. A long cross into the Chivas box by Lovel Palmer<\/strong> was set to be easily collected by Kennedy, but the Chivas keeper ran into his own defender James Riley<\/strong> while going for the ball, and the ball felt to the feet of Kris Boyd<\/strong>, who hesitated just a second to let the ball settle before blasting into the open net to give the Timbers a 1-0 lead, and would be the first time this season the Timbers had scored the first goal of a match.<\/p>\n

Chivas nearly had a good chance seconds later when a through ball to Alejandro Moneno<\/strong> was just barely collected by Timbers goalkeeper Troy Perkins<\/strong> before Chivas striker could get a touch on the ball. A minute later Chivas had a few more good chances, with the first cross being cleared by Andrew Jean-Baptiste<\/strong>, and a follow up shot blocked by Eric Brunner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In the 20th minute, Boyd nearly doubled his total when Alexander played a nice cross from the right side, but Boyd\u2019s header was just over the crossbar. In the 31st minute, a Franck Songo\u2019o<\/strong> cross produced a good chance for the Timbers, but Alexander\u2019s one-timer was cleared over the endline by a Chivas defender.<\/p>\n

Carrying a lead into halftime for the first time this season, the Timbers hopes for finding a way to finally close out a match (and earn their first shutout in their past eight matches) only lasted for three minutes when a cross from the left side from Chivas second half substitute Ryan Smith<\/strong> found the head of Moreno, who had climbed above Brunner, and headed just side the left post, and the match was level at 1-1.<\/p>\n

The visitors would control much of the play throughout the entire second half, and in the 67th minute a mis-hit cross by Ante Jazic<\/strong> went towards the upper left corner of the goal but was controlled well by Perkins.<\/p>\n

One of the few goal scoring chances for the Timbers in the second half would come in the 67th minute, when second half substitute Kalif Alhassan<\/strong> attempted to curl a free kick into the top corner of the net, but Kennedy was ready for it and collected easily.<\/p>\n

In the 78th minute, Chivas USA had a chance to take the lead when Moreno turned on the ball about 15 yards out from goal, but his quick shot was smothered well by Perkins.<\/p>\n

But the Timbers had been on their heels for much of the second half, and that would finally pay off for the visitors in the 82nd minute, on a goal that was almost a carbon copy of the first Chivas goal, when Smith was given a lot of room to cross from the left side, and his cross was met by a free header by Nick LaBrocca<\/strong>, and once again it was just inside the left post, and Chivas had a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n

Having done very little to threaten for the entire second half, the Timbers had no response to the LaBrocca goal and for the second straight match at home, a Timbers lead will not hold up, and would end up in another loss, their third straight of the 2012 season, and matching their longest losing streak of their MLS history.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Portland Timbers came into their match against Chivas USA looking for a positive result after losing a 2-1 lead last week vs. Real Salt Lake on two late goals, ending up at the short end of a 3-2 score. And though the Timbers got off to a good start with a Kris Boyd goal, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","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\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}