{"id":9143,"date":"2024-04-13T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2024-04-13T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T03:29:20","slug":"thorns-cant-break-through-in-north-carolina-fall-by-2-0-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/04\/13\/thorns-cant-break-through-in-north-carolina-fall-by-2-0-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns can&#8217;t break through in North Carolina, fall by 2-0 score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns are still winless in the 2024, campaign falling 2-0 to the North Carolina Courage on the road.&nbsp; <strong>Tyler Lussi<\/strong> and <strong>Haley Hopkins<\/strong> had the goals for the Courage.<\/p>\n<p>In just the 5th minute, on a North Carolina corner kick, <strong>Tyler Lussi<\/strong> would one-time a shot past<strong> Shelby Hogan<\/strong>, and the hosts had a 1-0 lead.&nbsp; In the 18th minute, Portland&#8217;s <strong>Sophie Smith<\/strong> had a 1-on-1 chance with Courage goalkeeper <strong>Casey Murphy<\/strong>, but would slide the shot just wide right.&nbsp; In the 33rd minute, the Thorns had a great chance when <strong>Morgan Weaver<\/strong> intercepted a pass deep in Courage territory, but her quick shot would be blocked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 36th minute, the hosts would double their lead when Lussi&#8217;s pass into the box found the head of <strong>Haley Hopkins<\/strong>, who finished from just a few yards out, and the lead was 2-0, which would be the score at the break.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns would have a few good chances in the second half, but never found the net, and ended up on the short end of a 2-0 score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns are still winless in the 2024, campaign falling 2-0 to the North Carolina Courage on the road.&nbsp; Tyler Lussi and Haley Hopkins had the goals for the Courage. In just the 5th minute, on a North Carolina corner kick, Tyler Lussi would one-time a shot past Shelby Hogan, and the hosts had [&hellip;]<\/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-9143","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\/9143","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=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9144,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9144"}],"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=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}