{"id":7758,"date":"2023-02-27T23:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2023-02-28T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:22:56","slug":"timbers-open-2023-season-with-1-0-win-over-sporting-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/02\/27\/timbers-open-2023-season-with-1-0-win-over-sporting-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers open 2023 season with 1-0 win over Sporting Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Timbers opened their 2023 Major League Soccer season on a chilly night at Providence Park against Sporting Kansas City.  It would be Juan David Mosquera<\/strong> with the lone goal for the Timbers in a 1-0 win.  David Bingham<\/strong> had the shutout in goal.<\/p>\n

The Timbers nearly got on the board in the 5th minute when Evander<\/strong> and Jaros\u0142aw Niezgoda<\/strong> pressured Kansas City goalkeeper John Pulskamp<\/strong> causing a loose ball that Marvin Lor\u00eda<\/strong> was able to jump on, but his shot was saved nicely by Pulskamp<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

But about  a minute later Juan David Mosquera<\/strong> was able to run down a long ball just inside the touchline and wrestle it away from defender Ben Sweat<\/strong><\/a>.  Mosquera then played a nice give-and-go with Yimmi Char\u00e1<\/strong> and had a good look from close in.  His low shot was deflected<\/a> but not stopped by Pulskamp<\/a>, and slipped into the net, giving the Timbers an early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

In the 24th minute, Sporting Kansas City would have two excellent chances by midfielder Erik Thommy<\/strong>, the first a shot from 10 yards out that was stopped by a nice reaction save from David Bingham<\/strong>, then 10 seconds later Thommy had another nice chance with a chip shot that Bingham did well to retreat and tip over the crossbar.  The Timbers held a 1-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n

In the 60th minute, off a corner kick, Sporting’s Roger Espinoza<\/strong> did well to head a tight-angle shot that slipped just wide of the post<\/a>.  Then in the 73rd minute the Timbers had a nice fast break passing sequence between Evander and Nathan Foga\u00e7a<\/strong>, who dropped the ball to a trailing Lor\u00eda, getting a nice chance that was stopped nicely by Pulskamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 77th minute, Kansas City’s D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i<\/strong> had a great chance to equalize when pass was headed to him only about 10 yards out, but his shot was smothered nicely by Bingham.<\/p>\n

The visitors would have their best scoring chance of the night off a corner kick in the first minute of stoppage time, which was met nicely by William Agada<\/strong>, but his headed shot would slip just wide right.  Foga\u00e7a would give the Timbers another chance to add to their lead on a breakaway chance saved about a minute later<\/a>, But the lone goal early in the match was enough to secure a 1-0 win.<\/p>\n

David Bingham<\/strong> would record four saves in earning the shutout, while John Pulskamp<\/strong> would record three saves for Sporting Kansas City.<\/p>\n

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The Portland Timbers opened their 2023 Major League Soccer season on a chilly night at Providence Park against Sporting Kansas City.  It would be Juan David Mosquera with the lone goal for the Timbers in a 1-0 win.  David Bingham had the shutout in goal. The Timbers nearly got on the board in the 5th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7758","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\/2023\/02\/skc022723-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","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=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7823,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions\/7823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}