{"id":6659,"date":"2021-12-11T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2021-12-11T07:24:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T15:24:40","slug":"mls-cup-final-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2021\/12\/11\/mls-cup-final-is-today\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS Cup final is today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 Major League Soccer Championship, the MLS Cup tournament final, is today at Providence Park at noon.&nbsp; This is the third MLS Cup final the Timbers have played in during their eleven years in MLS, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2015\/12\/07\/we-just-won-the-league-we-just-won-the-league\/\">winning 2-1 in Columbus in 2015<\/a>, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2018\/12\/08\/timbers-fall-2-0-to-atlanta-in-mls-cup-2018\/\">losing 2-0 in Atlanta in 2018<\/a>.&nbsp; But for the first time in their MLS history, and also in the history of the team going back to the NASL, APSL\/WSL, and USL eras, the Championship game will be at home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Weather for today is expected to be rainy and windy, though the forecasts have backed off a bit from the original predictions of extremely high winds.&nbsp; As of now (Saturday at 7:15am), they are predicting 47 degrees at kickoff with and 85% chance of rain and 12mph winds.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In MLS Cup history, home teams have a 10-3 record in winning the title match.&nbsp; One of those road wins was the Timbers winning in Columbus in 2015.&nbsp; The others were the LA Galaxy winning in Foxboro, Massachusetts in 2002 and Seattle winning in Toronto in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 Major League Soccer Championship, the MLS Cup tournament final, is today at Providence Park at noon.&nbsp; This is the third MLS Cup final the Timbers have played in during their eleven years in MLS, after winning 2-1 in Columbus in 2015, then losing 2-0 in Atlanta in 2018.&nbsp; But for the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","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\/2021\/12\/mlscup121021-mlscup.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","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=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}