{"id":8062,"date":"2023-04-15T00:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T07:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2023-04-15T00:43:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T07:43:55","slug":"thorns-draw-1-1-with-houston-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/04\/15\/thorns-draw-1-1-with-houston-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns draw 1-1 with Houston Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns got out to an early lead, but couldn&#8217;t hold onto it and settled for a 1-1 draw with the Houston Dash.&nbsp; <strong>Crystal Dunn<\/strong> would have the Thorns goal, while <strong>Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> would net one for Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns didn&#8217;t take long to get on the board, when in just the ninth minute, <strong>Sophie Smith<\/strong> would make a run down the left side, and crossed to a wide-open <strong>Crystal Dunn<\/strong>, who one-timed a shot that was off the crossbar but in, and the Thorns had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>But in the 24th minute, after a Thorns defender missed a play on a pass, Houston&#8217;s <strong>Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>&nbsp;would find her way into the box, and slipped a nice slow shot inside the far post past goalkeeper Bella Bixby, and the score was tied at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the 32nd minute, the Thorns would have a great chance to re-take the lead when Smith made another great run down the left side, but though her shot beat Dash goalkeeper <strong>Jane Campbell<\/strong>, the shot would ring off the crossbar.&nbsp; Nine minutes later the Thorns once again were attacking down the left side, as they would for much of the night, with <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong> having a great opportunity this time, but her shot was just high.&nbsp; &nbsp;The score was&nbsp; 1-1 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the 65th minute it was Weaver again attacking down the left side, with her shot slipping just wide left into the side netting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both teams would have good chances to steal the winning goal, with Portland&#8217;s Rocky Rodr\u00edguez and Weaver having several late great chances, the best being off a <strong>Meghan Klingenberg<\/strong> corner kick in the 89th minute when Weaver had a chance at a mostly-open net, but her opportunity was challenged well by the Dash defense and would slip just wide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns got out to an early lead, but couldn&#8217;t hold onto it and settled for a 1-1 draw with the Houston Dash.&nbsp; Crystal Dunn would have the Thorns goal, while Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez would net one for Houston. The Thorns didn&#8217;t take long to get on the board, when in just the ninth minute, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports-thorns","category-thorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/hou041423-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062","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=8062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8062\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}