{"id":8997,"date":"2024-03-16T13:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2024-03-16T13:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:14:02","slug":"thorns-open-2024-nwsl-season-with-a-crazy-5-4-loss-at-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/03\/16\/thorns-open-2024-nwsl-season-with-a-crazy-5-4-loss-at-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns open 2024 NWSL season with a crazy 5-4 loss at Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Thorns had a wild opening match for the 2024 NWSL season, falling behind early, before nearly pulling off a late rally, but fell a goal short in a 5-4 loss to the Kansas City Current.  Vanessa DiBernardo<\/strong> scored twice for the hosts, while Beatriz Zaneratto Jo\u00e3o<\/strong>, Kristen Hamilton<\/strong>, and Alex Pfieffer<\/strong> also scored.  Sophia Smith<\/strong> scored twice for the Thorns, as did Janine Beckie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Kansas City opened the scoring in the 22nd minute, when D\u00e9bora Cristiane de Oliveira<\/strong> intercepted a bad pass from Thorns goalkeeper Shelby Hogan<\/strong>, and passed across the goalmouth to a charging Vanessa DiBernardo<\/strong>, who scored easily to give the hosts a 1-0 lead.  Just a few minutes later, a failed headed clearance attempt by Marie M\u00fcller<\/strong> fell to a wide open DiBernardo near the penalty spot, and she buried a hard shot past Hogan, and the score was now 2-0.<\/p>\n

In the 34th minute, the hosts added another goal to their lead when a nice pass by Hailie Mace<\/strong> was into the run of Beatriz Zaneratto Jo\u00e3o<\/strong> who beat Hogan with a nice shot under the crossbar, and the score was 3-0.<\/p>\n

In the 43rd minute, the Thorns were finally on the board when Sophie Smith<\/strong>‘s shot from outside the Current box slipped just inside the right post past goalkeeper Adrianna Franch<\/strong>, and the score was 3-1 Kansas City, which would be the score at the break.<\/p>\n

But in the 64th minute, the hosts added to their lead when Temwa Chawinga<\/strong> managed to free a loose ball from the Thorns keeper, and Kristen Hamilton<\/strong> jumped on the loose ball and scored into the open net to make it 4-1 Current.  In the 68th minute it was Chawinga setting up a score again, this time by chesting down a cross that fell to Alex Pfieffer<\/strong> at the top of the box, whose low shot was just inside the right post, and the score was now 5-1 to the hosts.<\/p>\n

But the Thorns weren’t done despite the four-goal deficit.  In the 71st minute, a corner kick was headed across the goalmouth, and fell to Janine Beckie<\/strong>, who blasted in a shot past Franch at the post, and the score was now 5-2.  Just three minute later, Smith made a few nice moves at the top of the Current box, and put a low shot to the far post perfectly past the Current keeper, and the score was 5-3.<\/p>\n

A stoppage time began, Beckie pulled the Thorns within a goal with a shot out of nowhere, as her perfect shot from 25 yards out curled just inside the left post, and the score was now 5-4.<\/p>\n

But the Thorns could never get the equalizer, and would fall by a goal to open the 2024 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Portland Thorns had a wild opening match for the 2024 NWSL season, falling behind early, before nearly pulling off a late rally, but fell a goal short in a 5-4 loss to the Kansas City Current.  Vanessa DiBernardo scored twice for the hosts, while Beatriz Zaneratto Jo\u00e3o, Kristen Hamilton, and Alex Pfieffer also scored.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-thorns","category-thorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/thorns-fans.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","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=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}