{"id":8737,"date":"2023-09-17T19:55:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T02:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2023-09-17T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T02:55:52","slug":"timbers-stay-hot-with-2-1-win-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/09\/17\/timbers-stay-hot-with-2-1-win-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers stay hot with 2-1 win in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers had goals from <strong>Felipe Mora&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>Evander<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>and kept their solid run of play going with a 2-1 win over Austin FC.&nbsp; <strong>Sebasti\u00e1n Driussi&nbsp;<\/strong>had the lone goal for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Austin controlled most of the early play, and in just the ninth minute <strong>Gyasi Zardes<\/strong> put a header off the right post, and shortly afterwards, <strong>David Bingham<\/strong> made another great save to keep the match scoreless.&nbsp; In the 32nd minute the Timbers finally had a good chance on a counterattack, but <strong>Santiago Moreno<\/strong>&#8216;s chance from close-in was saved.<\/p>\n<p>Though Austin had controlled much of play in the first half, it was the Timbers who broke through first in the 39th minute, when Dairon Asprilla made a nice run into the box down the right side, and his low cross ricocheted around in the box, but fell on the foot of <strong>Felipe Mora<\/strong>, who finished from just a few yards out, and the Timbers had a 1-0 lead.&nbsp; That would be the score at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers had much better possession in the second half, and doubled their lead on a beautiful goal in the 64th minute.&nbsp; <strong>Yimmi Char\u00e1<\/strong> curled a cross into the Austin box that Mora chested into the run of <strong>Evander<\/strong>, who one-timed a shot past <strong>Brad Stuver<\/strong>, and the Timbers lead was now 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the 75th minute, Austin pulled back a goal when <strong>Sebasti\u00e1n Driussi<\/strong> slipped in behind the Timbers defense, and though his first shot was saved by Bingham, the Austin forward had a nice follow-up into the top right corner, and the score was now 2-1 Timbers.&nbsp; <strong>Franck Boli<\/strong> had a breakaway chance for the Timbers minutes later, but slid his shot just wide right.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers had some nervous moments defending late in the match, but left Austin with a 2-1 win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers had goals from Felipe Mora&nbsp;and Evander&nbsp;and kept their solid run of play going with a 2-1 win over Austin FC.&nbsp; Sebasti\u00e1n Driussi&nbsp;had the lone goal for the hosts. Austin controlled most of the early play, and in just the ninth minute Gyasi Zardes put a header off the right post, and shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8737","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\/12\/rsl120421-wc2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","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=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8738,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions\/8738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}