The Portland Timbers visited St. Louis City on Saturday night. Neither team could find the net and in the end, it was a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n
In just the third minute the Timbers had a good chance when Antony<\/strong> led a break with Jonathan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, but the pass was a bit behind and Rodr\u00edguez ended up having his shot saved nicely by Roman B\u00fcrki<\/strong>. In the 17th minute, the hosts would have a great breakaway chance on a nice lead pass into the run of Hosei Kijima<\/strong>, but Timbers goalkeeper James Pantemis<\/strong> did a nice job of charging out of his box and clearing the threat at the last second. Shortly afterwards Portland’s Evander<\/strong> had a nice shot from the top of the box tipped just wide by a nice save from B\u00fcrki.<\/p>\n In the 35th minute, St. Louis forward Jo\u00e3o Klauss<\/strong> slipped past Pantemis but couldn’t get a hard shot on goal, and the ball was cleared by Zak McGraw<\/strong> before it could cross the goal line. Late in the half, C\u00e9lio Pompeu<\/strong> had a nice shot that Pantemis was shielded from at first, but made a nice reaction save to keep it out. The match would be scoreless at the break.<\/p>\n In the 74th minute, the hosts came very close to taking the lead, when a free kick by Eduard L\u00f6wen<\/strong> from just outside the box was off the left crossbar, and rebounded directly to Tim Parkerk<\/strong>, who had a follow-up chance into a seemingly empty net, but Timbers defender Claudio Bravo<\/strong> had great position and blocked the shot from crossing the line. Neither team would threaten again and the match would end up scoreless.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Portland Timbers visited St. Louis City on Saturday night. Neither team could find the net and in the end, it was a 0-0 draw. In just the third minute the Timbers had a good chance when Antony led a break with Jonathan Rodr\u00edguez, but the pass was a bit behind and Rodr\u00edguez ended up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9343","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\/03\/scarves1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343","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=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9346,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions\/9346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}