{"id":8854,"date":"2023-10-21T22:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2023-10-22T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T04:31:23","slug":"timbers-fall-flat-against-houston-lose-by-3-1-score-out-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/10\/21\/timbers-fall-flat-against-houston-lose-by-3-1-score-out-of-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers fall flat against Houston, lose by 3-1 score, out of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Timbers knew a win on Saturday night would have secured them a playoff spot, but a draw or a loss left it open to other results.  And everything would go wrong for the Timbers on this night as they ended up on the short end of a 3-1 result against the Houston Dynamo, and other results did not go their way, and they will miss the playoffs for the second straight season. Felipe Mora<\/strong> scored for the Timbers, while Griffin Dorsey<\/strong> scored twice for the Dynamo and Adalberto Carrasquilla<\/strong> also had a goal.<\/p>\n

The Timbers had the first good look of the match in the 5th minute when Evander<\/strong>‘s free kick was saved by former Timber Steve Clark<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n

In the 11th minute, after the Timbers have given up a confusing corner kick, the Dynamo would make the Timbers pay when Griffin Dorsey<\/strong> was left open short of the near post, and headed it nicely past David Bingham<\/strong>, and Houston had an early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

In the 30th minute the Timbers had a good chance to level the score when a nice cross from Yimmi Char\u00e1<\/strong> gave Santiago Moreno<\/strong> a good chance near the far post, but his shot was saved.  In the 37th minute, the Timbers had another great chance with a blast by Cristhian Paredes<\/strong> from just outside the box that slipped just wide left.  Houston held a 1-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n

Early in the second half, Houston made the Timbers pay for a defensive breakdown when Adalberto Carrasquilla<\/strong> was patient as the Timbers scrambled to defend, and blasted a high shot into the net past Bingham, and the score was 2-0 Houston.<\/p>\n

In the 55th minute, a blast by Portland’s Claudio Bravo<\/strong> was tipped just wide by Clark.   In the 71st minute the task was made even harder for the Timbers when Dorsey had his second goal on the night, a high blast on an open shot that Bingham had no chance at, and the score was 3-0 Houston.<\/p>\n

The Timbers did get a goal back in the 80th minute, when Evander played a ball into the box into the run of Felipe Mora<\/strong>, who finished nicely to make the score 3-1 Houston, but the Timbers never got close and ended up on the short end of the result.<\/p>\n

With the other results around the league on Saturday night, the Timbers slipped from 7th to 10th and miss out on the playoffs by a single point.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Portland Timbers knew a win on Saturday night would have secured them a playoff spot, but a draw or a loss left it open to other results.  And everything would go wrong for the Timbers on this night as they ended up on the short end of a 3-1 result against the Houston Dynamo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-match-reports","category-timbers-mls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hou102123-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","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=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8882,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions\/8882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}