{"id":8685,"date":"2023-08-30T21:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:34:29","slug":"timbers-break-skid-with-2-1-win-over-real-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/08\/30\/timbers-break-skid-with-2-1-win-over-real-salt-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers break skid with 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers would earn their first victory in awhile, as two goals would hold up in a 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake.&nbsp; <strong>Santiago Moreno&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Felipe Mora&nbsp;<\/strong>would score for the Timbers, while <strong>Cristian Arango&nbsp;<\/strong>would&nbsp; have the goal for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>It took until the 13th minute for either team to have a good scoring chance, and the Timbers took advantage of it when <strong>Evander<\/strong> played a crossing pass to <strong>Juan David Mosquera<\/strong>, who made a high return cross across the goal mouth which found <strong>Santiago Moreno<\/strong> charging in unmarked, and he would head home from about eight yards out, and the Timbers had a 1-0 lead. Both teams would have decent scoring chances in the rest of the first half, but neither team threatened seriously, and the half would end with the Timbers up by a 1-0 score.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the second half, Real Salt Lake were getting much more of the possession, and had a few really good chances only kept out by nice saves by Timbers goalkeeper <strong>David Bingham<\/strong>, including one that rebounded off the left post.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 64th minute, the Timbers made their first good chance of the second half pay off as well, when a long pass from <strong>Claudio Bravo<\/strong> was knocked down by Moreno, who then tapped a pass to a charging <strong>Felipe Mora<\/strong>, who finished with a one-timer just under the crossbar past Real Salt Lake goalkeeper <strong>Zac MacMath<\/strong>, and the Timbers lead was now 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the 83rd minute, after several decent scoring chances, the visitors would get a nice redirection by <strong>Cristian Arango<\/strong> in front of the Timbers net past BIngham, and the Timbers lead was now 2-1.&nbsp; Real Salt Lake would have some late chances, but never found the net again, and the Timbers would secure the 2-1 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers would earn their first victory in awhile, as two goals would hold up in a 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake.&nbsp; Santiago Moreno&nbsp;and Felipe Mora&nbsp;would score for the Timbers, while Cristian Arango&nbsp;would&nbsp; have the goal for the visitors. It took until the 13th minute for either team to have a good scoring chance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8685","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\/2022\/04\/lag040322-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685","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=8685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8686,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8685\/revisions\/8686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}