{"id":8632,"date":"2023-08-20T21:42:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2023-08-21T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:00:12","slug":"shorthanded-thorns-rally-for-2-1-win-over-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/08\/20\/shorthanded-thorns-rally-for-2-1-win-over-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorthanded Thorns rally for 2-1 win over North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns would rally from an early deficit, playing almost the entire match down a woman, to earn a 2-1 win over the North Carolina Courage.&nbsp; <strong>Hannah Betfort&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Sophia Smith&nbsp;<\/strong>would score for the Thorns, while <strong>Tyler Lussi<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>had the goal for the Courage.<\/p>\n<p>In the 14th minute, the Courage would be awarded a penalty kick on a foul by <strong>Kelli Hubly<\/strong> in the box, which was then changed to a DOGSO foul on Hubly, which meant no penalty kick, but the Thorns would be down a player.&nbsp; But on the ensuing free kick, <strong>Tyler Lussi<\/strong> converted with a beautiful shot off the crossbar and just over the line to give North Carolina a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>But the Thorns actually looked better playing shorthanded, and in the 41st minute, they would make it pay off when <strong>Olivia Moultrie<\/strong> chipped a pass nicely into the run of <strong>Hannah Betfort<\/strong>, who blasted a shot past goalkeeper <strong>Casey Murphy<\/strong> at close-range, and the Thorns had pulled level at 1-1.&nbsp; This would be the score at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>In the 69th minute, <strong>Sophia Smith<\/strong> subbed in for her first action since the Women&#8217;s World Cup, and it only took about 15 seconds for her to score, easily finishing a pass from <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong> at the far post, and the score was now 2-1 Thorns.&nbsp; The home side would hold on despite being down a player for over 70 minutes for the 2-1 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns would rally from an early deficit, playing almost the entire match down a woman, to earn a 2-1 win over the North Carolina Courage.&nbsp; Hannah Betfort&nbsp;and Sophia Smith&nbsp;would score for the Thorns, while Tyler Lussi&nbsp;had the goal for the Courage. In the 14th minute, the Courage would be awarded a penalty kick [&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-8632","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\/8632","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=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8635,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions\/8635"}],"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=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}