{"id":7629,"date":"2022-10-02T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T00:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2022-10-02T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T00:24:23","slug":"timbers-let-hard-fought-draw-vs-lafc-slip-away-in-stoppage-time-lose-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2022\/10\/02\/timbers-let-hard-fought-draw-vs-lafc-slip-away-in-stoppage-time-lose-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers let hard-fought draw vs. LAFC slip away in stoppage time, lose 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers played a very challenging match against Los Angeles FC on a sunny Sunday at Providence Park, and appeared ready to leave with a satisfying draw until a late stoppage time goal by LAFC spoiled the party and a 2-1 loss for the Timbers.&nbsp; <strong>Carlos Vela<\/strong> and <strong>Denis Bouang<\/strong>a would score for the visitors while<strong> Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> would score for the Timbers.<\/p>\n<p>The first half was largely even, with the visitors having somewhat between scoring chances, but Timbers goalkeeper <strong>Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d<\/strong> would make a few nice saves to keep the match level at the break.<\/p>\n<p>But five minutes into the second half, Los Angeles FC would take the lead when <strong>Carlos Vela<\/strong> was left open at the top of the Timbers box, and finished nicely into the upper left corner of the net to give LAFC a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers started to seriously push forward looking for the equalizer at this point, and nearly found that goal in the 71st minute when a<strong> Claudio Bravo<\/strong> header was off the crossbar.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both teams had a few good chances in the next 10 minutes or so, but neither goalkeeper was seriously challenged.&nbsp; &nbsp;But in the 81st minute, the Timbers would finally tie it up when a Bravo cross found <strong>Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> able to split two defenders at the six-yard box, and he would head the ball home past <strong>Maxime Cr\u00e9peau<\/strong> to level the match at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>But shockingly, four minutes into seven minutes of announced stoppage time, the Timbers defense had a serious breakdown that would cost them dearly, as <strong>Denis Bouanga<\/strong> would somehow elude four Timbers defenders, and slid home a deflected shot to give LAFC a 2-1 lead, which would be the final score on the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d<\/strong> had five saves on the day, while <strong>Maxime Cr\u00e9peau<\/strong> had six for LAFC.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers played a very challenging match against Los Angeles FC on a sunny Sunday at Providence Park, and appeared ready to leave with a satisfying draw until a late stoppage time goal by LAFC spoiled the party and a 2-1 loss for the Timbers.&nbsp; Carlos Vela and Denis Bouanga would score for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7629","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\/10\/lafc100222-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7661,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/7661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}