{"id":8630,"date":"2023-08-20T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T02:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2023-08-20T19:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T02:45:32","slug":"timbers-routed-5-0-by-houston-dynamo-as-mls-season-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/08\/20\/timbers-routed-5-0-by-houston-dynamo-as-mls-season-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers routed 5-0 by Houston Dynamo as MLS season resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their first match back after the Leagues Cup, the Timbers largely didn&#8217;t show up in Houston and got blown out by a 5-0 score.&nbsp; <strong>Amine Bassi, Nelson Qui\u00f1\u00f3nes, Corey Baird, Franco Escobar,&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Brad Smith&nbsp;<\/strong>all scored for the Dynamo.<\/p>\n<p>In just the third minute, Timbers defender <strong>Claudio Bravo<\/strong> comitted a foul in the box, and Houston&#8217;s <strong>Amine Bassi<\/strong> coverted the kick, and Houston had a very early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the 11th minute, Houston doubled their lead when <strong>Nelson Qui\u00f1\u00f3nes<\/strong> turned nicely on the ball near the penalty spot, and blasted the shot past <strong>Alja\u017e Iva\u010di\u010d<\/strong>, and the Dynamo lead was now 2-0.&nbsp; Three minutes later, Houston was on the board again when <strong>Corey Baird<\/strong> slipped in alone behind the Timbers defense, and chipped a shot over Iva\u010di\u010d, and just fourteen minutes into the match, the Dyanamo lead was now 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Just before halftime, Houston would score again on a near-repeat of the third goal, only this time it was <strong>Franco Escobar<\/strong> slipping in behind the Timbers defense and chipping Iva\u010di\u010d, and Houston had a 4-0 lead, which would be the halftime score.<\/p>\n<p>In the 63rd minute, Houston added yet another goal to the blowout when <strong>Brad Smith<\/strong> was the one to get behind the Timbers goal, and another chip over the Timbers goalkeeper, and another goal meant it was 5-0 Dynamo at this point, which would be the final score.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their first match back after the Leagues Cup, the Timbers largely didn&#8217;t show up in Houston and got blown out by a 5-0 score.&nbsp; Amine Bassi, Nelson Qui\u00f1\u00f3nes, Corey Baird, Franco Escobar,&nbsp;and Brad Smith&nbsp;all scored for the Dynamo. In just the third minute, Timbers defender Claudio Bravo comitted a foul in the box, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8630","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\/05\/tascarf.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630","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=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8631,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions\/8631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}