{"id":8390,"date":"2023-05-21T18:42:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T01:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8390"},"modified":"2023-05-21T18:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T01:42:58","slug":"early-thorns-goals-lead-way-to-4-0-rout-of-chicago-red-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/05\/21\/early-thorns-goals-lead-way-to-4-0-rout-of-chicago-red-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Thorns goals lead way to 4-0 rout of Chicago Red Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Thorns had the visiting Chicago Red Stars on their heels early, netting three goals in the first 16 minute on the way to an easy 4-0 victory.  Kelly Hubly<\/strong>, Crystal Dunn<\/strong>, Olivia Moultrie<\/strong>, and Natalia Kuikka<\/strong> all scored for the Thorns, while Bella Bixby<\/strong> had the shutout in goal.<\/p>\n

It only took until the 8th minute for the Thorns to take the lead, when a free kick curled to the far post, where Kelly Hubly<\/strong> did not allow the ball to touch the turf and redirected the shot back across the goal mouth behind goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher<\/strong> and just inside the right post, and the Thorns had a 1-0 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just six minutes later, the Thorns doubled the lead when Hina Sugita<\/strong> made a nice cutback, then slipped a pass inside the Red Stars box to a wide-open Crystal Dunn<\/strong>, who one-timed the shot past Naeher, and the lead was now 2-0.<\/p>\n

And the goals just kept coming for the Thorns.  It only took two minutes to widen the lead even further when Dunn played a pass into the box that Olivia Moultrie<\/strong> ran onto and directed it past the Chicago keeper and into the net, and the lead had increased to 3-0.  Before the half was over the Thorns had great chances on a header attempt by Hubly, and a shot from the top of the box by Morgan Weaver<\/strong>, but did not score again in the first half, and held a 3-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n

But as it had been in the first half, it only took a few minutes for the Thorns to score in the second half when in the 48th minute, Thorns midfielder Sam Coffey<\/strong> sent a cross to the far post that was met by the head of Natalia Kuikka<\/strong>, whose header from just a few yards out was into the upper left corner of the Chicago net, and the Thorns lead had widened to 4-0.<\/p>\n

A 52nd minute shot by Portland’s Sophie Smith<\/strong> was tipped just wide, with Weaver putting the rebound shot off the left upright.  <\/p>\n

In the 66th minute Chicago had one of their best scoring chances of the day when Bianca St-Georges<\/strong> slipped in behind the Thorns defense, but her shot from just a few yards out was off the right post.  Portland’s Sugita herself hit the right post on a shot in the 82nd minute.  Neither team would threaten again and the game ended with a 4-0 Thorns victory.<\/p>\n

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The Portland Thorns had the visiting Chicago Red Stars on their heels early, netting three goals in the first 16 minute on the way to an easy 4-0 victory.  Kelly Hubly, Crystal Dunn, Olivia Moultrie, and Natalia Kuikka all scored for the Thorns, while Bella Bixby had the shutout in goal. It only took until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8390","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\/05\/chi052123-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390","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=8390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8392,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions\/8392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}