{"id":8697,"date":"2023-09-09T21:33:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T04:33:35","slug":"8697","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/09\/09\/8697\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers shut down LAFC by 2-0 score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers would find their offense in their defense on this night vs. the Los Angeles Football Club, as <strong>Larrys Mabiala&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Claudio Bravo&nbsp;<\/strong>would find the net in a 2-0 win by the Timbers over LAFC.<\/p>\n<p>After the first part of the opening half saw neither team have much of a scoring chance, the Timbers would make a 28th minute corner kick by <strong>Evander<\/strong> pay off when Los Angeles keeper <strong>John McCarthy<\/strong> could not control the ball, and Timbers defender <strong>Larrys Mabiala<\/strong> faught off his LAFC defender to head home, and the Timbers had a 1-0 lead.&nbsp; Both teams had moderately good chances to score in the remainder of the half, but neither team would find the net, and the Timbers would lead 1-0 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the 53rd minute, the Timbers would double their lead on a counterattack when<strong> Santiago Moreno<\/strong> dropped a pass to <strong>Claudio Bravo<\/strong>, who finished inside the left post to give the Timbers a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers had a brilliant chance of a breakaway by<strong> Sebasti\u00e1n Blanco<\/strong> in the 76th minute, when he dropped a pass to <strong>Franck Boli<\/strong> whose shot was brilliantly stopped by McCarthy.&nbsp; In the 83rd minute, LAFC&#8217;s <strong>Carlos Vela<\/strong> curled a free kick just high and wide from just outside the Timbers box.<\/p>\n<p>But LAFC never found the back of the Timbers net and the home side would hold on for a 2-0 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Timbers would find their offense in their defense on this night vs. the Los Angeles Football Club, as Larrys Mabiala&nbsp;and Claudio Bravo&nbsp;would find the net in a 2-0 win by the Timbers over LAFC. After the first part of the opening half saw neither team have much of a scoring chance, the Timbers would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8697","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\/11\/min112121-larrys.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","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=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}