{"id":6927,"date":"2022-03-12T23:50:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T07:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=6927"},"modified":"2022-03-13T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:07:01","slug":"timbers-blank-austin-fc-on-bill-tuiloma-headed-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2022\/03\/12\/timbers-blank-austin-fc-on-bill-tuiloma-headed-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers blank Austin FC on Bill Tuiloma headed goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Timbers faced Austin FC on a rainy night at Providence Park, and a second half headed goal by Bill Tuiloma<\/strong> would be the difference as the Timbers earned 1-0 win. Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d<\/strong> had the shutout in goal.<\/p>\n

In the 24th minute the Timbers would have the first good scoring chance when Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> made a run into the Austin box<\/a>, with his shot being blocked by an Austin defender<\/a>.  Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda<\/strong> had a chance for an open follow-up shot<\/a>, but put his shot well wide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 32nd minute, Austin would have their own good chance on a header by Nick Lima<\/strong>, which was cleared back to him, and his follow-up low shot was tapped into the goal by Sebasti\u00e1n Driussi<\/strong>, but he was judged offside and the goal was disallowed.<\/p>\n

In the 40th minute the hosts would get a great chance to get on the scoreboard first when a long pass from Justin Rasmussen<\/strong> was headed by Bill Tuiloma<\/strong>, but his headed shot would be off the right post and rebounded wide.  <\/p>\n

Austin would have the next good chance in the 43rd minute when Alexander Ring<\/strong> would make a deep run and chipped a shot into the box that was barely tipped out of danger by Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d<\/strong> and then cleared out of danger by Josecarlos Van Rankin<\/strong>.  The match would be 0-0 at the break as the skies opened up for a very wet second half.<\/p>\n

In the 62nd minute the Timbers would finally break through when Yimmi Char\u00e1<\/strong> took a free kick from about 30 yards out, and Tuiloma evaded his Austin defenders<\/a> and got off the headed shot from six yards out<\/a> that was inside the right post past goalkeeper Brad Stuver<\/strong>, who never had a chance and never flinched on the shot, and the Timbers had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Austin would get the next good look in the 70th minute when Cecilio Dom\u00ednguez<\/strong> would have an open look at goal from a tight angle, but blasted his shot over the crossbar.  The visitors had another good chance a few minutes later when Ethan Finlay<\/strong> would chip in an unexpected shot from the right side that Iva\u010di\u010d was able to tip over the crossbar.<\/p>\n

In the 76th minute Austin would get several good chances<\/a> on a header, a few close-in shots, and even an attempted bicycle, but still could not find the net.  The match would end with the Timbers earning their first win of the year in a 1-0 victory.<\/p>\n

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The Portland Timbers faced Austin FC on a rainy night at Providence Park, and a second half headed goal by Bill Tuiloma would be the difference as the Timbers earned 1-0 win. Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d had the shutout in goal. In the 24th minute the Timbers would have the first good scoring chance when Dairon Asprilla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6927","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\/2022\/03\/aus031222-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927","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=6927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}