{"id":9062,"date":"2024-03-24T20:58:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T03:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2024-03-24T20:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T03:58:25","slug":"thorns-cant-break-through-fall-1-0-to-ny-nj-gotham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/03\/24\/thorns-cant-break-through-fall-1-0-to-ny-nj-gotham\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns can’t break through, fall 1-0 to NY\/NJ Gotham"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Thorns opened their 2024 home campaign on Sunday afternoon against NY\/NY Gotham FC, and though the Thorns would produce many chances (including two goals nullified by offside calls), they’d never find the net and would fall by a 1-0 score.  Esther Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong> would have the lone goal for the day.<\/p>\n

A 3rd minute goal by Sophie Smith<\/strong> was ruled offside.  Six minutes later Smith had a nice breakaway chance, but her shot was saved nicely by Cassie Miller<\/strong>.  In the 27th minute, Gotham would have their first good look when Midge Purce<\/strong> made a nice cutback but her shot from near the corner of the box was saved by Shelby Hogan<\/strong>.  The match would be scoreless at the break.<\/p>\n

In the 61st minute, the Thorns thought they had taken the lead when Smith hit a beautiful shot from the top of the box just inside the right post, but a video review ruled (correctly) that she had been offside when she received the original pass.<\/p>\n

In the 72nd minute, the Thorns inability to finish would finally hurt them, when on a Gotham counterattack, Yazmeen Ryan<\/strong> would play a pass after a deep run down the right side to a wide-open Esther Gonz\u00e1lez, who finished easily, and just like that the visitors had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, Portland’s Morgan Weaver<\/strong> made a nice run down the left side, and crossed to Smith, who made a nice tap to get an open shot, but it was saved by Miller.  In the 82nd minute, Hina Sugita<\/strong> would have a good chance on a header on a nice lob played into the box by Becky Sauerbrunn<\/strong>, but the shot would go wide left.  A few minutes later, Gotham had a good chance on a counterattack, but Gonz\u00e1lez’s shot was saved nicely when Hogan tipped the shot over the bar. <\/p>\n

In stoppage time, the Thorns had a great chance to level the score when a nice high cross found the head of Christine Sinclair<\/strong>, but her attempt was right at Miller.  It would be the last chance and Gotham would leave with a 1-0 win.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

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The Portland Thorns opened their 2024 home campaign on Sunday afternoon against NY\/NY Gotham FC, and though the Thorns would produce many chances (including two goals nullified by offside calls), they’d never find the net and would fall by a 1-0 score.  Esther Gonz\u00e1lez would have the lone goal for the day. A 3rd minute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9062","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\/2024\/03\/ny032424-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062","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=9062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9064,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9062\/revisions\/9064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}