{"id":663,"date":"2012-08-19T23:32:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T06:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2012-08-19T23:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T06:32:32","slug":"timbers-cant-hold-2-0-lead-but-after-whistle-goal-stings-in-3-2-loss-to-red-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2012\/08\/19\/timbers-cant-hold-2-0-lead-but-after-whistle-goal-stings-in-3-2-loss-to-red-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers can&#8217;t hold 2-0 lead, but after-whistle goal stings in 3-2 loss to Red Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers got off to the best start on the road in their MLS history, going out to a 2-0 lead by the 32nd minute on goals by Bright Dike and Darlington Nagbe, but the talking point of the match would be a very controversial 45th minute New York goal by Tim Cahill that went in the net after the whistle had stopped play, yet in a call that seems to be almost inexplicable, center referee Jasen Anno would allow the game tying goal.<\/p>\n<p>So the early 2-0 lead would disappear by halftime on that controversial equalizer, and Heath Pearce would get the game winner for New York in the 83rd minute for the 3-2 Red Bulls win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/08\/recap-despite-strong-start-portland-ny-tops-timbers-3-2\">http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2012\/08\/recap-despite-strong-start-portland-ny-tops-timbers-3-2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers got off to the best start on the road in their MLS history, going out to a 2-0 lead by the 32nd minute on goals by Bright Dike and Darlington Nagbe, but the talking point of the match would be a very controversial 45th minute New York goal by Tim Cahill that [&hellip;]<\/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-663","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\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}