{"id":7897,"date":"2023-03-18T23:29:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T06:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2023-03-18T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T06:29:52","slug":"shorthanded-timbers-no-match-for-atlanta-fall-by-5-1-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/03\/18\/shorthanded-timbers-no-match-for-atlanta-fall-by-5-1-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorthanded Timbers no match for Atlanta, fall by 5-1 score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers were without several starters, as new midfielder Evander has also been added to the list.&nbsp; The Timbers had an early goal by <strong>Eryk WIlliamson<\/strong> called back, and then the Timbers ended up on their back foot as Atlanta found the net 5 times in a 5-1 win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caleb Wiley<\/strong> got behind the Timbers defense to slip in the first goal for a 1-0 lead, and<strong> Thiago Almada<\/strong> had a brilliant curling free kick during first half stoppage time for the 2-0 lead.&nbsp; <strong>Georgios Giakoumakis<\/strong> would add to the lead with a header in the 58th minute, and <strong>Luiz Araujo<\/strong> would score in the 74th minute for the 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers would get a goal back in the 83rd minute when <strong>Tega Ikoba<\/strong> would net his first MLS goal for the Timbers, and becomes the Timbers all-time youngest goal scorer at the age of 19, making the score 4-1 Atlanta.&nbsp; Almada would net his second goal of the night for the hosts a few minutes later, and Atlanta would emerge with the 5-1 win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/news\/timbers-fall-to-atlanta-united-fc\">Timbers fall to Atlanta United FC<\/a> | Timbers website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers were without several starters, as new midfielder Evander has also been added to the list.&nbsp; The Timbers had an early goal by Eryk WIlliamson called back, and then the Timbers ended up on their back foot as Atlanta found the net 5 times in a 5-1 win. Caleb Wiley got behind the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7897","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\/03\/scarves1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","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=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7898,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}