{"id":8691,"date":"2023-09-02T22:05:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:05:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:05:53","slug":"timbers-rally-for-2-2-draw-at-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/09\/02\/timbers-rally-for-2-2-draw-at-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers rally for 2-2 draw at Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers fell behind 2-0 to the Sounders early, but a Seattle red card changed the match and the Timbers rallied for a 2-2 draw.&nbsp; <strong>Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> and <strong>Evander<\/strong> would score for the Timbers, while <strong>Ra\u00fal Ruid\u00edaz<\/strong> and <strong>L\u00e9o Ch\u00fa<\/strong> scored for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts took a lead in the 9th minute when <strong>Ra\u00fal Ruid\u00edaz<\/strong> was positioned well at the far post to get his head on a re-direction of a corner kick, and his header put the Sounders up 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the 30th minute, the Sounders doubled the lead when <strong>L\u00e9o Ch\u00fa<\/strong> slipped in behind the Timbers defense, and slotted a shot past <strong>David Bingham<\/strong> to put Seattle up 1-0.&nbsp; But during the celebration, Ch\u00fa would take off his shirt which earned him a yellow, which would be a key point later.<\/p>\n<p>In the 53rd minute, Ch\u00fa was called for a hard foul on <strong>Zac McGraw<\/strong>, and earned a second yellow and the Timbers would be up a player for the rest of the match.<\/p>\n<p>It would pay off for the Timbers in the 67th minute with a play that was very similar to the goal by Ruidiaz, except it was&nbsp; Timbers throw this time that was reidrected to a player open at the far post, who was <strong>Dairon Asprilla<\/strong> this time, and he headed home to bring the Timbers within a 2-1 score.<\/p>\n<p>Just three minutes later, Portland&#8217;s <strong>Evander<\/strong> found himself open on a counterattack, 25 yards out from goal, and he perfectly curled a shot into the upper right corner past goalkeeper <strong>Stefan Frei<\/strong>, and the match was tied at 2-2, which would be the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers fell behind 2-0 to the Sounders early, but a Seattle red card changed the match and the Timbers rallied for a 2-2 draw.&nbsp; Dairon Asprilla and Evander would score for the Timbers, while Ra\u00fal Ruid\u00edaz and L\u00e9o Ch\u00fa scored for the hosts. The hosts took a lead in the 9th minute when Ra\u00fal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","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\/10\/lafc100222-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","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=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8692,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions\/8692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}