{"id":9245,"date":"2024-05-12T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T22:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9245"},"modified":"2024-05-12T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T22:54:04","slug":"timbers-fall-2-1-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/05\/12\/timbers-fall-2-1-to-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers fall 2-1 to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers would go out to an early lead on Sunday afternoon against the Sounders, but couldn&#8217;t hold that lead and would fall 2-1 to the visitors.&nbsp; <strong>Felipe Mora<\/strong> had the lone goal for the Timbers, while <strong>Christian Roldan<\/strong> and <strong>Ra\u00fal Ruid\u00edaz<\/strong> would score for the Sounders.<\/p>\n<p>After a physically tough first 10 minutes where neither team had any advantage, the Timbers made their first good opportunity pay off in the 14th minute.&nbsp; <strong>Eric Miller<\/strong> played a long ball into the box that was chested down by <strong>Jonathan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> into the run of <strong>Felipe Mora<\/strong>, who had a pretty easy finish, and the Timbers had an early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>But just five minutes later, and Sounders would tie it up when a seemingly harmless shot by <strong>Christian Roldan<\/strong> appeared to ricochet off the foot of Timbers defender <strong>Kamal Miller<\/strong>, and though <strong>Jordan Morris&nbsp;<\/strong> appeared to be in an offside position and in the line of sight of the keeper, the goal was reviewed by VAR and upheld, so the score was 1-1.&nbsp; In the 31st minute Seattle had another great chance that ricocheted again on the way to goal, but went wide this time.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams would have reasonably good chances before the half but neither team seriously threatened to score, and the match would be level at the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the 50th minute, Seattle would take the lead when <strong>Ra\u00fal Ruid\u00edaz<\/strong> hit a nice curling shot from the top of the box that was well beyond the reach of Timbers keeper <strong>Maxime Cr\u00e9peau<\/strong>, and the Sounders had a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams had a few good chances for the rest of the match, but the Timbers never found the equalizer, and the Sounders would leave with a 2-1 win.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Timbers would go out to an early lead on Sunday afternoon against the Sounders, but couldn&#8217;t hold that lead and would fall 2-1 to the visitors.&nbsp; Felipe Mora had the lone goal for the Timbers, while Christian Roldan and Ra\u00fal Ruid\u00edaz would score for the Sounders. After a physically tough first 10 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-timbers-mls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tascarf.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245","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=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9246,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions\/9246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}