{"id":5054,"date":"2020-08-05T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2020-08-06T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:19:14","slug":"timbers-advance-to-mls-is-back-final-with-2-1-win-over-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2020\/08\/05\/timbers-advance-to-mls-is-back-final-with-2-1-win-over-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers advance to MLS Is Back Final with 2-1 win over Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers have advanced to the MLS Is Back Championship Final with a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Union. The Timbers took an early lead in the 13th minute when Jeremy Ebobisse headed in a Diego Valeri corner to give the Timbers a 1-0 lead. Late in the first half, Philadelphia had a chance to equal as Portland gave up their fifth penalty opportunity in six tournament games, but Sergio Santos skyed his attempt over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers doubled their lead in the 70th minute, again off a Valeri corner kick, when Dario Zuparic&#8217;s flicked header found Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco open at the post, and he headed home for the 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Things got really nervous for the Timbers and their fans late, as Andrew Wooten knocked home a rebound off a saved Jamiro Monteiro free kick, and then just minutes later, a potential tying Philadelphia goal by Kacper Przybylko was ruled just offside, and the Timbers held on for the 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a CONCACAF Champions League spot on the line when the Timbers face Orlando City on Tuesday.&nbsp; The Lions defeated Minnesota United 3-1 on Thursday night to earn a spot against the Timbers in the final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/post\/2020\/08\/05\/mls-back-tournament-match-recap-philadelphia-union-1-portland-timbers-2\">MLS IS BACK TOURNAMENT MATCH RECAP | Philadelphia Union 1, Portland Timbers 2<\/a> | Timbers website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers have advanced to the MLS Is Back Championship Final with a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Union. The Timbers took an early lead in the 13th minute when Jeremy Ebobisse headed in a Diego Valeri corner to give the Timbers a 1-0 lead. Late in the first half, Philadelphia had a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5054","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\/2020\/06\/MLSTournament4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","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=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5057,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions\/5057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}