{"id":7858,"date":"2023-03-11T23:29:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2023-03-11T23:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T07:29:44","slug":"timbers-cant-hold-early-lead-fall-2-1-to-st-louis-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/03\/11\/timbers-cant-hold-early-lead-fall-2-1-to-st-louis-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers can&#8217;t hold early lead, fall 2-1 to St. Louis City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers faced expansion team St. Louis City on Saturday night at Providence Park.&nbsp; And though the Timbers once again had an early lead, as they did two weeks ago against Sporting Kansas City, but they could not hold the lead and fell 2-1.&nbsp; <strong>Zac McGraw<\/strong> would have the goal for the Timbers, while <strong>Jared Stroud<\/strong> and <strong>Kyle Hiebert<\/strong> would score for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>In just the 3rd minute, the Timbers would jump out to an early lead when a corner kick from <strong>Eryk Williamson<\/strong> found the head of Timbers defender <strong>Zac McGraw<\/strong> , and his header would slip just inside the right post, and right out of the gate, the Timbers had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>But the Timbers could not hold that lead to the break, when in first half stoppage time, midfielder <strong>Jared Stroud<\/strong> got a good strike on a loose ball in the Timbers box, which eluded defender <strong>David Bingham<\/strong>, and the score was 1-1 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>After the Timbers failed to take advantage of several good second half chances, St. Louis City would make them pay in the 74th minute when <strong>Kyle Hiebert<\/strong> headed in a free kick to put St. Louis in the lead by a 2-1 score.&nbsp; The Timbers would have good chances to tie in the closing minutes, but never found the goal, and the visitors would emerge with the 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Bingham<\/strong> would record four saves for the Timbers, while <strong>Roman B\u00fcrki<\/strong> would record two for the St. Louis.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers faced expansion team St. Louis City on Saturday night at Providence Park.&nbsp; And though the Timbers once again had an early lead, as they did two weeks ago against Sporting Kansas City, but they could not hold the lead and fell 2-1.&nbsp; Zac McGraw would have the goal for the Timbers, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7858","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\/03\/stl031123-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858","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=7858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7860,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7858\/revisions\/7860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}