{"id":756,"date":"2013-01-29T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soccercityusa.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2013-01-29T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T21:04:48","slug":"timbers-open-2013-preseason-with-3-1-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2013\/01\/29\/timbers-open-2013-preseason-with-3-1-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers open 2013 preseason with 3-1 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new-look Portland Timbers, under new coach Caleb Porter, opened their 2013 preseason on Tuesday showing alot of attacking prowess, and some new faces combined with familiar faces for a solid 3-1 win over the Colorado Rapids in Tucscon, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>New signees Ryan Miller, Michael Harringon, Diego Valeri, Will Johnson, and Ryan Johnson started the first half, with Valeri showing Beckham-like free kick ability with a curling shot that slipped inside the right post for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Milos Kocic debuted in goal in the second half, with trialists Mikael Silvestre and Michael Nanchoff also seeing action. \u00a0Kalif Alhassan was in his typical pre-season form with a tight angled shot giving the Timbers a 2-0 lead, and Jose Valencia showed the form Timbers fans had been waiting to see when he dribbled around the Rapids defense and placed a low shot inside the post for a 3-0 lead. \u00a0A late Rapids goal on a headed corner ruined the shutout, but the Timbers remain undefeated in their MLS history in preseason play with a 3-1 win.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.stumptownfooty.com\/2013\/1\/29\/3929558\/portland-timbers-start-preseason-with-3-1-win-over-colorado-rapids\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stumptownfooty.com\/2013\/1\/29\/3929558\/portland-timbers-start-preseason-with-3-1-win-over-colorado-rapids\">http:\/\/www.stumptownfooty.com\/2013\/1\/29\/3929558\/portland-timbers-start-preseason-with-3-1-win-over-colorado-rapids<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2013\/01\/desert-friendlies-recap-timbers-defeat-rapids-3-1-preseason-opener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2013\/01\/desert-friendlies-recap-timbers-defeat-rapids-3-1-preseason-opener\">http:\/\/www.portlandtimbers.com\/news\/2013\/01\/desert-friendlies-recap-timbers-defeat-rapids-3-1-preseason-opener<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new-look Portland Timbers, under new coach Caleb Porter, opened their 2013 preseason on Tuesday showing alot of attacking prowess, and some new faces combined with familiar faces for a solid 3-1 win over the Colorado Rapids in Tucscon, Arizona. New signees Ryan Miller, Michael Harringon, Diego Valeri, Will Johnson, and Ryan Johnson started the [&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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-match-reports-reserves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}