{"id":6024,"date":"2021-07-21T22:02:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2021-07-21T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:42:10","slug":"timbers-get-last-gasp-goal-from-mora-for-2-1-win-over-lafc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2021\/07\/21\/timbers-get-last-gasp-goal-from-mora-for-2-1-win-over-lafc\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers get last-gasp goal from Mora for 2-1 win over LAFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers hosted Los Angeles FC Wednesday night for a mid-week home game, and earned their second straight win as <strong>Felipe Mora<\/strong> scored a stoppage time goal to break a 1-1 tie as the Timbers defeated LAFC by a 2-1 score.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers did not take long to jump out to a lead, when just over a minute into the match, the Timbers took advantage of Los Angeles being unable to clear a ball, and <strong>Josecarlos Van Rankin<\/strong> played a high ball into the box that <strong>Diego Valeri<\/strong> controlled behind LA defender (and former Timber) <strong>Marco Farfan<\/strong>, and Valeri slipped the shot between LA goalkeeper <strong>Tomas Romero<\/strong>&#8216;s legs and into the net, to give the Timbers the early 1-0 lead.&nbsp; It was Valeri&#8217;s 100th goal as&nbsp; Timber.<\/p>\n<p>LAFC would tie the score in the 17th minute when <strong>Diego Rossi<\/strong> had a run down the right side, playing a perfect pass to a charging <strong>Carlos Vela<\/strong>, who one-touched the shot just inside the left post to level the score at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>The match looked like it was going to finish as a 1-1 draw until deep into stoppage time when <strong>Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco<\/strong> played a high pass into the box where it found the head of <strong>Felipe Mora<\/strong>, whose shot slipped just inside the left post, giving the Timbers the lead that they would hold onto for the 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Clark<\/strong> had five saves for the Timbers while <strong>Tomas Romero<\/strong> had a single save for Los Angeles FC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/news\/match-recap-portland-timbers-2-los-angeles-fc-1-x7121\">MATCH RECAP | Portland Timbers 2, Los Angeles FC 1<\/a> | Timbers Website<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/video\/highlights-timbers-down-lafc-2-1-on-mora-s-93rd-minute-winner#highlights-timbers-down-lafc-2-1-on-mora-s-93rd-minute-winner\">HIGHLIGHTS | Timbers down LAFC, 2-1, on Mora&#8217;s 93rd minute winner<\/a> | Timbers Website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers hosted Los Angeles FC Wednesday night for a mid-week home game, and earned their second straight win as Felipe Mora scored a stoppage time goal to break a 1-1 tie as the Timbers defeated LAFC by a 2-1 score. The Timbers did not take long to jump out to a lead, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-timbers-mls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lafc101820-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","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=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6028,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions\/6028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}