{"id":8901,"date":"2023-11-07T17:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2023-11-07T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T03:20:34","slug":"8901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/11\/07\/8901\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns lose heartbreaker 1-0 to NY\/NJ Gotham in overtime that ends 2023 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a rainy night at Providence Park, the Thorns never found the net, and though their opponents NY\/NJ Gotham had the same problem for much of the match, only the visitors would find the net in overtime, and emerged with a 1-0 win that ends the Thorns season.&nbsp; <strong>Katie Stengel<\/strong> had the game winner for Gotham in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The first really good chance for either team wouldn&#8217;t come until the 32nd minute when <strong>Esther Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong> got in behind the Thorns defense, and past goalkeeper <strong>Shelby Hogan<\/strong> before the ball was cleared by <strong>Becky Sauerbrunn<\/strong> to keep the match scoreless.&nbsp; A few minutes later Gotham had another great chance when <strong>Jenna Nighswonger<\/strong> had a free kick from near the corner of the 18-yard box, but the ball was just over the bar.&nbsp; The match was level at 0-0 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns started getting really good breakaway chances late in the 2nd half, the first in the 79th minute when <strong>Crystal Dunn<\/strong> played a ball into the run of <strong>Sophia Smith<\/strong> on a 2-on-1 break, with Gotham goalkeeper <strong>Mandy Haught<\/strong> snaring the ball nicely just in time off Smith&#8217;s foot.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 90th minute the Thorns had another 2-on-1 break, with Smith passing to <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong>, who cut back onto her left foot and had a great look from near the penalty spot, but her shot was barely defected and saved by Haught.&nbsp; In stoppage time, <strong>Lynn Williams<\/strong> had a great run into the box for the visitors, but<strong> Sam Coffey<\/strong>&#8216;s defense stopped her at the last minute.&nbsp; So it would take extra time to decide this semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>After neither team scored in the first 15 minutes, it would be just a minute into the second overtime period that Gotham would make the Thorns pay for a mistake.&nbsp; After a poor clearance attempt by the Thorns, <strong>Katie Stengel<\/strong> collected the ball at the top of the box, and curled a beautiful curling shot into the upper left corner past Hogan, and Gotham had shocked the crowed with a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns would never find the equalizer, and their season would end with the 1-0 defeat.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a rainy night at Providence Park, the Thorns never found the net, and though their opponents NY\/NJ Gotham had the same problem for much of the match, only the visitors would find the net in overtime, and emerged with a 1-0 win that ends the Thorns season.&nbsp; Katie Stengel had the game winner for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8901","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\/11\/ny110523-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","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=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8903,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/8903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}