{"id":8413,"date":"2023-06-03T21:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T04:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8413"},"modified":"2023-06-03T21:39:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T04:39:24","slug":"thorns-get-2-0-road-win-vs-ol-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/06\/03\/thorns-get-2-0-road-win-vs-ol-reign\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns get 2-0 road win vs. OL Reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns would get an early goal by <strong>Sophia Smith<\/strong>, and a late goal by <strong>Christine Sinclair<\/strong>, and that would be all they&#8217;d need for a 2-0 victory over the OL Reign at Lumen Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns would get on the board first when in the 16th minute, <strong>Sophia Smith<\/strong> made a nice run to the top of the Reign box, and blasted a perfectly placed low shot into the bottom right corner past goalkeeper<strong> Phallon Tullis-Joyce<\/strong>, and the Thorns had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the 23rd minute,<strong> Megan Rapinoe<\/strong> would have a good chance for the Reign, but a nice block by Thorns defender <strong>Emily Menges<\/strong> ended the threat.&nbsp; Both teams had another good chance that came within a foot or two of adding a score, but neither team could score, and the Thorns held a 1-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the 87th minute, the Thorns would get their second goal of the evening when <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong> did well to keep the ball from going over the endline, then waited patiently until she spotted <strong>Christine Sinclair<\/strong> in the box, and the low pass was perfectly one-timed by Sinclair, slipping just inside the left post, and the Thorns lead was now 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Reign would have a great chance to pull back a goal in stoppage time,. but a nice point blank save by <strong>Bella Bixby<\/strong> on a shot by <strong>Tziarra King<\/strong> would preserve the shutout, with the Thorns winning by a 2-0 score.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timbers.com\/thornsfc\/news\/thorns-triumphant-in-cascadia-battle-shutout-ol-reign-in-seattle\">Thorns triumphant in Cascadia battle, shutout OL Reign in Seattle<\/a> | Thorns website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns would get an early goal by Sophia Smith, and a late goal by Christine Sinclair, and that would be all they&#8217;d need for a 2-0 victory over the OL Reign at Lumen Field. The Thorns would get on the board first when in the 16th minute, Sophia Smith made a nice run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8413","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\/10\/sd102322-champs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413","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=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}