{"id":4946,"date":"2019-10-06T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2019-10-07T07:23:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T14:23:28","slug":"timbers-advance-to-2019-mls-playoffs-with-3-1-win-over-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2019\/10\/06\/timbers-advance-to-2019-mls-playoffs-with-3-1-win-over-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers advance to 2019 MLS Playoffs with 3-1 win over San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Timbers completed an up-and-down 2019 regular season on Sunday at Providence Park with a 3-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes, earning a spot in the 2019 MLS playoffs by finishing sixth in the Western Conference. Larrys Mabiala<\/strong>, Dairon Asprilla<\/strong>, and Sebastian Blanco<\/strong> scored for the Timbers, while Chris Wondolowski<\/strong> had the lone goal for the Earthquakes.<\/p>\n

With the win, the Timbers now face Real Salt Lake on the road in two weeks to start the MLS Playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Timbers would have the majority of early possession, and nearly made it pay off in just the seventh minute when Jorge Moreira<\/strong> had an open look from the top of the box, but slipped the shot just wide right.<\/p>\n

In the 14th minute, the home side nearly benefitted from an own goal when a Timbers corner was accidentally shouldered towards net by Chris Wondolowski<\/strong>, with Daniel Vega<\/strong> making a brilliant reaction save to keep the match scoreless.<\/p>\n

Then in the 29th minute, the Timbers would open the scoring when the Quakes were unable to clear a Timbers free kick, with Jorge Villafa\u00f1a<\/strong> sending in a low cross that Larrys Mabiala<\/strong> was able to direct past Vega<\/a>, and the Timbers had a 1-0 lead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lead would not last long, as in the 39th minute, as Cristian Espinoza<\/strong> sent in a cross that Wondolowski did well to get his head on at the near post, directing it past Steve Clark<\/strong> and into the net to tie the score at 1-1, which would be the score at the break.<\/p>\n

The Timbers would re-take the lead in the 59th minute when Jeremy Ebobisse<\/strong> played a ball into Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> just outside the San Jose box, with the Timbers midfielder beating his defender to have a low shot that was saved by Vega<\/a>, but Asprilla put in his own rebound to give the Timbers a 2-1 lead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 76th minute the Timbers would double their lead when<\/a> Sebastian Blanco<\/strong> played a perfect free kick from 22 yards out that blasted into the upper right corner of the goal<\/a> to give the Timbers a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n

The visitors had a great chance to pull a goal back one minute later when Clark made two great saves on close-in shots from Espioza.<\/p>\n

But the Timbers would hold on for the win and now move on to play Real Salt Lake to start the 2019 playoffs.<\/p>\n

Steve Clark<\/strong> had three saves for the Timbers while Daniel Vega<\/strong> recorded five for the Earthquakes.<\/p>\n

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The Portland Timbers completed an up-and-down 2019 regular season on Sunday at Providence Park with a 3-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes, earning a spot in the 2019 MLS playoffs by finishing sixth in the Western Conference. Larrys Mabiala, Dairon Asprilla, and Sebastian Blanco scored for the Timbers, while Chris Wondolowski had the lone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports","category-timbers-mls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sj100619-22.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","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=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}