{"id":8105,"date":"2023-04-22T23:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2023-04-22T23:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T06:39:46","slug":"timbers-fall-short-at-fc-cincinnati-by-2-1-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/04\/22\/timbers-fall-short-at-fc-cincinnati-by-2-1-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers fall short at FC Cincinnati by 2-1 score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers were on the road Saturday at Cincinnati and could not quite catch up to a two goal lead, and fell short by a 2-1 score.&nbsp; <strong>Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> had the Timbers goal, while <strong>Sergio Santos<\/strong> and <strong>Brandon Vazquez<\/strong> scored for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sergio Santos<\/strong> would have a breakaway in 23rd minute, but Timbers goalkeeper <strong>Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d<\/strong> did very well to make the save to keep the game scoreless. But in the 31st minute, Cincinnati would take the lead when <strong>\u00c1lvaro Barreal<\/strong> curled in a nice cross from the left side that Santos met with a diving header, and the hosts had the 1-0 lead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both teams came close to scoring just before the half, but both shots were just wide or high, and FC Cincinnati had a 1-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the 58th minute, the home side would double their lead when the Timbers failed to clear a few rebounds in the box, and <strong>Brandon Vazquez<\/strong> was able to finish easily to make the lead 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>But just two minutes later, the same thing would happen at the other end when <strong>Santiago Moreno<\/strong>&#8216;s shot produced a rebound Cincinnati couldn&#8217;t clear, and <strong>Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> knocked it home, and the lead was now 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later, Moreno had a great chance to level the score for the Timbers when he was able to slip into the box by himself, but his weak shot was easily saved.&nbsp; The Timbers never found the equalizer and fell by a 2-1 score.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/news\/timbers-fall-2-1-to-fc-cincinnati-on-the-road\">Timbers fall 2-1 to FC Cincinnati on the road<\/a> | Timbers website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers were on the road Saturday at Cincinnati and could not quite catch up to a two goal lead, and fell short by a 2-1 score.&nbsp; Dairon Asprilla had the Timbers goal, while Sergio Santos and Brandon Vazquez scored for the hosts. Sergio Santos would have a breakaway in 23rd minute, but Timbers [&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-8105","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\/8105","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=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8106,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8106"}],"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=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}