{"id":9339,"date":"2024-06-09T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2024-06-09T00:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T07:05:24","slug":"sophia-smith-penalty-kick-the-difference-in-1-0-win-over-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/06\/09\/sophia-smith-penalty-kick-the-difference-in-1-0-win-over-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Smith penalty kick the difference in 1-0 win over North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns would host a very gritty match on Saturday night at a humid Providence Park.&nbsp; It would be a second half penalty kick by <strong>Sophia Smith<\/strong> that would be the lone goal in a 1-0 win for the Thorns.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half both teams would have a few reasonably good chances, with the best probably being a chance for the visitors in the 42nd minute when the Thorns gave up the ball in their own end, but <span class=\"mw-page-title-main\"><strong>Kaleigh Kurtz<\/strong>&#8216;s shot was stopped nicely by <strong>Shelby Hogan<\/strong>.&nbsp; <strong>Sophia Smith<\/strong> also had a good chance in first half stoppage time from just outside the box, but Casey Murphy made a nice save.&nbsp; The match would be scoreless as the break.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The second half was more chippy, but neither team really threatened to score until late when a VAR review resulted in a penalty kick for the Timbers.&nbsp; Smith would take the kick and finished nicely inside the left post, and the Thorns had a 1-0 lead in the 79th minute.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of regulation time, the visitors nearly tied the score when a header by <strong>Victoria Serena Pickett<\/strong> off a corner was off the right post, and defender <strong>Marie M\u00fcller<\/strong> nearly accidentally headed the ball into her own net, but the rebound trickled just wide.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns would hang on for the 1-0 win.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns would host a very gritty match on Saturday night at a humid Providence Park.&nbsp; It would be a second half penalty kick by Sophia Smith that would be the lone goal in a 1-0 win for the Thorns. In the first half both teams would have a few reasonably good chances, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9339","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\/06\/nc060824-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339","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=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9341,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions\/9341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}