{"id":9299,"date":"2024-05-29T20:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T03:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9299"},"modified":"2024-05-29T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T03:50:03","slug":"timbers-shut-out-austin-win-2-0-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/05\/29\/timbers-shut-out-austin-win-2-0-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers shut out Austin, win 2-0 on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a poor start to the 2024 season, the Timbers are starting to hit their stride, and have now won three of their past four matches, winning 2-0 on the road against Austin FC on Wednesday night.&nbsp; <strong>Evander<\/strong> and <strong>Jonathan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> would have the goals for the Timbers.<\/p>\n<p>In just the 13th minute, the hosts were awarded a penalty kick on a foul by <strong>Diego Char\u00e1<\/strong> in the Timbers box.&nbsp; <strong>Sebasti\u00e1n Driussi<\/strong> (who was the Austin player who had been fouled) stepped up to take the kick, but his chance was saved nicely by Timbers goalkeeper <strong>James Pantemis<\/strong>, and the match remained scoreless.<\/p>\n<p>In first half stoppage time, Austin would have a few great chances, including one from just a few yards out by Driussi, but the chance was saved nicely be Pantemis.&nbsp; But then shortly afterwards, Portland&#8217;s <strong>Evander<\/strong> had a free kick from 25 yards out, directly in front of the Austin goal.&nbsp; The Timbers midfielder curled a perfect shot just inside the right post, which Austin goalkeeper <strong>Brad Stuver<\/strong> had no chance at saving, and the Timbers had a 1-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the 64th minute, the Timbers would be awarded a penalty kick themselves, when Antony was fouled in the Austin box.&nbsp; <strong>Jonathan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> would take the kick for the Timbers, and Stuver dove in the wrong direction and the Timbers forward finished easily, and the score was now 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams had a few half-chances late in the match, but neither team would threaten to score, and the Timbers held on for the 2-0 victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a poor start to the 2024 season, the Timbers are starting to hit their stride, and have now won three of their past four matches, winning 2-0 on the road against Austin FC on Wednesday night.&nbsp; Evander and Jonathan Rodr\u00edguez would have the goals for the Timbers. In just the 13th minute, the hosts [&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-9299","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\/9299","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=9299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9300,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299\/revisions\/9300"}],"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=9299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}