{"id":8436,"date":"2023-06-18T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T00:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2023-06-18T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T02:36:51","slug":"8436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/06\/18\/8436\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns hold on for 3-2 win at Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns held onto a late lead for a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Red Stars.&nbsp; <strong>Sophia Smith, Hina Sugita,&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Christine Sinclair&nbsp;<\/strong>scored for the Thorns, while <strong>Ella Stevens&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Allison Schlegel&nbsp;<\/strong>had goals for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns largely controlled the first half, and had some good chances, especially from <strong>Sophia Smith<\/strong>, but couldn&#8217;t put the shots on-target.&nbsp; Their first really good chance would come in the 40th minute when <strong>Sam Coffey<\/strong>&#8216;s chance from the top of the box rebounded off the left post.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But three minutes later, the Thorns were finally on the board when Smith made a run down the center of the pitch, then her curling shot from near the top of the box beat goalkeeper <strong>Alyssa Naeher<\/strong>, and the Thorns had a 1-0 lead that they would hold at the half.<\/p>\n<p>In the 63rd minute, the Thorns would double their lead when <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong> made a nice move to make a run to the end line, then passed back to <strong>Hina Sugita<\/strong>, who toe-poked the shot past Naeher, and the Thorns had a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few minutes later, Chicago were awarded a penalty kick when <strong>Bella Bixby<\/strong> was called for a foul at the end of her box.&nbsp; <strong>Ella Stevens<\/strong> would take the penalty, and slotted it into the lower left corner, and the Thorns lead was now 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>But in the 75th minute the Thorns would re-take their two goal lead, when <strong>Christine Sinclair<\/strong> did well to shift the ball onto her right foot inside the Chicago box, then blasted a shot into the right side of the net, and the Thorns now led by a 3-1 score.<\/p>\n<p>In the 82nd minute, Chicago would pull back a goal once again when <strong>Allison Schlegel<\/strong> got a nice header onto a corner kick, and the score was 3-2 Thorns.<\/p>\n<p>In the 89th minute, Chicago nearly tied the score when <strong>Bianca St-Georges<\/strong> had a breakaway chance, but her shot was off the right post.&nbsp; The Thorns would hold on for the 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns held onto a late lead for a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Red Stars.&nbsp; Sophia Smith, Hina Sugita,&nbsp;and Christine Sinclair&nbsp;scored for the Thorns, while Ella Stevens&nbsp;and Allison Schlegel&nbsp;had goals for the hosts. The Thorns largely controlled the first half, and had some good chances, especially from Sophia Smith, but couldn&#8217;t put the [&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-8436","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\/8436","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=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8439"}],"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=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}