{"id":8688,"date":"2023-09-02T19:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:45:11","slug":"thorns-cant-make-halftime-lead-hold-up-fall-2-1-to-racing-louisville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/09\/02\/thorns-cant-make-halftime-lead-hold-up-fall-2-1-to-racing-louisville\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns can&#8217;t make halftime lead hold up, fall 2-1 to Racing Louisville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racing Louisville would rally from a 1-0 halftime deficit to defeat the Thorns by a 2-1 score.&nbsp; <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>had the lone goal for the Thorns, while <strong>A<span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">bby Erceg&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">and <strong>Thembi Kgatlana&nbsp;<\/strong>scored for Louisville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hosts would have a great scoring chance early, including hitting the crossbar in the 5th minute.&nbsp; But a minute or so later, a lazy back pass by a Louisville defender was jumped on my <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong>, who would finish into an open net to give the Thorns a 1-0 lead.&nbsp; In first half stoppage time the hosts had a great chance with a loose ball just a few feet from the Thorns goalline, but nobody could knock it home.&nbsp; The Thorns held a 1-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>But in the 60th minute, Louisville finally tied it upon effectively an own goal, when <strong>A<span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">bby Erceg <\/span><\/strong>headed towards goal off a corner kick, and <strong>Hina Sugita<\/strong>&#8216;s attempt to clear with her head instead redirected it past <strong>Bella Bixby<\/strong>, and the score was now 1-1.&nbsp; A few minutes later, after a breakaway attempt by <strong>Ary Borges<\/strong> was saved by Bixby, <strong>Thembi Kgatlana<\/strong> had a chance from the top of the box that she would curl just inside the left post, and Louisville had turned a deficit into a 2-1 lead in just a few minutes.&nbsp; The Thorns never found the equalizer and Louisville would get the comeback 2-1 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racing Louisville would rally from a 1-0 halftime deficit to defeat the Thorns by a 2-1 score.&nbsp; Morgan Weaver&nbsp;had the lone goal for the Thorns, while Abby Erceg&nbsp;and Thembi Kgatlana&nbsp;scored for Louisville. The hosts would have a great scoring chance early, including hitting the crossbar in the 5th minute.&nbsp; But a minute or so later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8688","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\/2023\/04\/lou042223-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688","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=8688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8689,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8688\/revisions\/8689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}