{"id":7399,"date":"2022-07-03T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2022-07-03T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T03:18:47","slug":"timbers-rally-from-2-goals-down-for-2-2-draw-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2022\/07\/03\/timbers-rally-from-2-goals-down-for-2-2-draw-in-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers rally from 2 goals down for 2-2 draw in Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Timbers allowed Nashville to jump out to a 2-0 lead on Sunday night, but a penalty kick goal by Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> brought the Timbers back within a goal, then a few minutes later Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda<\/strong> would get the game-tying goal.  Sean Davis<\/strong> and Hany Mukhtar<\/strong> would score for Nashville in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n

Nashville were the first on the board after a pretty even first 19 minutes, when Sean Davis<\/strong> collected a pass just outside the Timbers box, and curled a nice shot into the far side of the net, and Nashville had a 1-0 lead.  Late in the first half the Timbers had a great chance to equalize when Claudio Bravo<\/strong> made a nice move to make a run near the Nashville goal, then slipped a pass to a wide-open Santiago Moreno<\/strong> in front of goal, but Moreno’s shot at an apparently open net was saved by a wild recovery and brilliant save by Nashville’s Elliot Panicco<\/strong>.  The score would be 1-0 Nashville at the break.<\/p>\n

In the 57th minute, Nashville doubled their lead when Luke Haakenson<\/strong> made a pass that found Hany Mukhtar<\/strong> open near the corner of the six-yard box, and the Nashville midfielder one-timed his shot nicely, and the hosts now had a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

But the tone of the match would change in the 63rd minute, when the Nashville goalkeeper mistakenly passed the ball directly to Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda<\/strong>, then fouled the Timbers forward in the box  when attempting to recovery, and a penalty kick was awarded.  Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> would take the penalty kick, and though Panicco got a good touch on the attempted save, it wasn’t enough to keep the chance out of the goal, and the score was now 2-1 Nashville.<\/p>\n

And just five minutes later, the Timbers made their newly-found momentum pay off, when Eryk Williamson<\/strong> found Niezgoda with a nice pass, and the Timbers forward finished nicely into the upper left corner of the net, and the score was now 2-2.<\/p>\n

Then in second-half stoppage time, the Timbers nearly jumped into the lead on a spectacular shot when Marvin Loria<\/strong>‘s blast from 25 yards out hit the crossbar but stayed out.  It was the last good scoring chance for either team, and the Timbers earned a 2-2 draw and are now undefeated in their past four matches.<\/p>\n

David Bingham<\/strong> had seven saves for the Timbers, while Elliot Panicco<\/strong> recorded three for the hosts.<\/p>\n

MATCH RECAP | Portland Timbers extend unbeaten streak with 2-2 fightback draw against Nashville SC<\/a> | Timbers website<\/p>\n

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS | Portland Timbers storm back for 2-2 draw with Nashville SC<\/a> | Timbers website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Timbers allowed Nashville to jump out to a 2-0 lead on Sunday night, but a penalty kick goal by Dairon Asprilla brought the Timbers back within a goal, then a few minutes later Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda would get the game-tying goal.  Sean Davis and Hany Mukhtar would score for Nashville in a 2-2 draw. Nashville […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","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\/mlscup121121-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","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=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7404,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions\/7404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}