{"id":8449,"date":"2023-06-24T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T04:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2023-06-24T21:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T04:45:53","slug":"timbers-cant-hold-onto-lead-vs-new-york-city-fc-end-up-in-1-1-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/06\/24\/timbers-cant-hold-onto-lead-vs-new-york-city-fc-end-up-in-1-1-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers can&#8217;t hold onto lead vs. New York City FC, end up in 1-1 draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rematch of the 2021 MLS Cup ended in regulation with the same score, a 1-1 final (no overtime during the regular season of course).&nbsp; <strong>Evander&nbsp;<\/strong>had the goal for the Timbers, while <strong>Keaton Parks&nbsp;<\/strong>would score for New York City FC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Evander<\/strong> had a great chance blocked in the 11th minute, but neither team really threatened until the 38th minute, when a series of Timbers passes across the box ended up on the foot of <strong>Marvin Lor\u00eda<\/strong>, who tapped a pass back to Evander, whose blast from the top of the box beat goalkeeper <strong>Matt Freese<\/strong>, and the Timbers had a 1-0 lead.&nbsp; A minute or so later the Timbers had another great chance when <strong>Santiago Moreno<\/strong> played a pass to <strong>Franck Boli<\/strong> as he charged into the box, but Freese made a nice save.&nbsp; The Timbers would hold their 1-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Boli had a great tight-angle shot saved just seconds into the second half.<\/p>\n<p>In the 52nd minute, New York City FC would tie it up off a free kick from&nbsp;<strong> Mat\u00edas Pellegrini<\/strong>, that was headed home by <strong>Keaton Parks<\/strong>, who had risen above the Timbers defense, and the score was level at 1-1.&nbsp; In the next few minutes, Portland goalkeeper <strong>Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d<\/strong> made a few good saves to keep the game level.<\/p>\n<p>In the 85th minute, Moreno had the ball fall nicely right near the penalty spot, but his shot was wide left.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team would threaten again, and the score would end up level at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Deep in stoppage time, <strong>Juan David Mosquera<\/strong> had a great chance from outside the box tipped just wide by Freese.<\/p>\n<p>Evander had a free kick chance on the last kick of the match nip just off the right post and going wide.&nbsp; The final was a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rematch of the 2021 MLS Cup ended in regulation with the same score, a 1-1 final (no overtime during the regular season of course).&nbsp; Evander&nbsp;had the goal for the Timbers, while Keaton Parks&nbsp;would score for New York City FC. Evander had a great chance blocked in the 11th minute, but neither team really threatened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8449","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\/12\/mlscup121121-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449","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=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8451,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions\/8451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}