{"id":8585,"date":"2023-07-26T22:17:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:17:21","slug":"timbers-fall-to-tigres-by-2-1-score-in-leagues-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/07\/26\/timbers-fall-to-tigres-by-2-1-score-in-leagues-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers fall to Tigres by 2-1 score in Leagues Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers put up a viliant Leagues Cup effort against Mexico powerhouse Tigres, but would play must of the match shorthanded, and fell by a 2-1 score.&nbsp; <strong>Evander<\/strong> had the goal for the Timbers, while <strong>Nicol\u00e1s L\u00f3pez&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Jes\u00fas Alberto Angulo<\/strong> would score for Tigres.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers would take advantage of the first good scoring chance either team had, when it the 24th minute, the Timbers had a free kick just outside the Tigres box. and <strong>Evander<\/strong> would curl the free kick chance perfectly into the upper right corner past <strong>Nahuel Guzman<\/strong>, and the Timbers had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the 42nd minute, Tigres would tie it up when <strong>Nicol\u00e1s L\u00f3pez<\/strong> made a nice run down the middle of the defense, and finished easily past <strong>Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d<\/strong>, and the score was level at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Just two minutes later, the game changed when Evander was given a second yellow card just a few minutes after he received his first, and the Timbers would have to finish the match down a player.&nbsp; The match would be tied 1-1 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Tigres had plenty of chances to take the lead in the second half, including an open header at the far post missed, and a shot off the crossbar, but in the 80th minute, the constant Tigres pressure would pay off when <strong>Jes\u00fas Alberto Angulo<\/strong> got an open header attempt on a corner kick, and converted, and Tigres had a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers were never able to tie it up, and would fall by a 2-1 score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers put up a viliant Leagues Cup effort against Mexico powerhouse Tigres, but would play must of the match shorthanded, and fell by a 2-1 score.&nbsp; Evander had the goal for the Timbers, while Nicol\u00e1s L\u00f3pez&nbsp;and Jes\u00fas Alberto Angulo would score for Tigres. The Timbers would take advantage of the first good scoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8585","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\/04\/fans-scarves.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585","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=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}