{"id":8281,"date":"2023-05-12T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T06:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2023-05-15T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T00:27:26","slug":"thorns-lose-first-nwsl-match-of-season-2-1-to-houston-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/05\/12\/thorns-lose-first-nwsl-match-of-season-2-1-to-houston-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns lose first NWSL match of season, 2-1 to Houston Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns had an 11-game unbeaten league match run end in a 2-1 loss to the Houston Dash.&nbsp; <strong>Rocky Rodr\u00edguez&nbsp;<\/strong>scored for the Thorns, while <strong>Joelle Anderson<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Ebony Salmon <\/strong>would score for the Dash.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns thought they had a 12th minute lead on a goal by Crystal Dunn, but a pass during the leadup was ruled offside by VAR.<\/p>\n<p>But in the 34th minute the Thorns would take the lead when <strong>Olivia Moultrie&nbsp;<\/strong>chipped a pass to <strong>Rocky Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, who finished from near the penalty spot, and the Thorns had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the 59th minute, Houston would draw level when a rebound off a save fell to an wide-open <strong>Joelle<\/strong> <strong>Anderson<\/strong>, who finished easily into an open net, and the score was now 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>And Houston would take the lead in the 71st minute when <strong>Ebony Salmon&nbsp;<\/strong>would beat her defender before making a run alone towards the Timbers goal, and then scored with a nice shot from the top of the box for the home side to take a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns would have yet another goal nullified after another VAR review of a tight offside call, and the Houston Dash would emerge with a 2-1 win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/thornsfc\/news\/thorns-fc-drop-2-1-road-result-against-houston-dash\">Thorns FC drop 2-1 road result against Houston Dash<\/a> | Thorns website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns had an 11-game unbeaten league match run end in a 2-1 loss to the Houston Dash.&nbsp; Rocky Rodr\u00edguez&nbsp;scored for the Thorns, while Joelle Anderson&nbsp;and Ebony Salmon would score for the Dash. The Thorns thought they had a 12th minute lead on a goal by Crystal Dunn, but a pass during the leadup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-thorns","category-thorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/olr040222-1024l.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281","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=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8282,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions\/8282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}