{"id":8733,"date":"2023-09-16T23:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T06:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8733"},"modified":"2023-09-16T23:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T06:47:02","slug":"thorns-shut-out-ol-reign-2-0-on-goals-by-sugita-and-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/09\/16\/thorns-shut-out-ol-reign-2-0-on-goals-by-sugita-and-weaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns shut out OL Reign 2-0 on goals by Sugita and Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns got first half goals from <strong>Hina Sugita<\/strong> and <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong>, which was enough to secure a 2-0 win over the OL Reign on Saturday night at Providence Park.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half hour, both teams had moderately good chances, but it didn&#8217;t pay off for either team until the 30th minute, off a Thorns free kick, <strong>Raquel Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> redirected the ball across the goal mouth, and <strong>Hina Sugita<\/strong> was there to finish from close-in, and the Thorns had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the 35th minute <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong> had an open look inside the Reign box, but her shot was off the crossbar, and a rebound chance by Rodr\u00edguez was cleared off the line by a Reign defender.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But off the ensuing corner kick, the Thorns would double the lead when the ball was crossed into the box and a Reign header ended up going to Weaver who was open near the far post, and she one-timed the shot past <strong>Claudia Dickey<\/strong>, and the Thorns lead was now 2-0, which would be the score at the break.<\/p>\n<p>The Reign would control possession for much of the second half, but would never seriously threaten to score, and the Thorns would seal a 2-0 win.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns got first half goals from Hina Sugita and Morgan Weaver, which was enough to secure a 2-0 win over the OL Reign on Saturday night at Providence Park. In the first half hour, both teams had moderately good chances, but it didn&#8217;t pay off for either team until the 30th minute, off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports-thorns","category-thorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/olr091623-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733","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=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}