{"id":9414,"date":"2024-06-23T17:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2024-06-23T17:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T00:29:46","slug":"thorns-never-find-their-form-drop-4-1-result-to-kansas-city-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/06\/23\/thorns-never-find-their-form-drop-4-1-result-to-kansas-city-current\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns never find their form, drop 4-1 result to Kansas City Current"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Thorns would have a their chance to redeem themselves from their season opening loss to Kansas City when they had to overcome a huge halftime deficit, but things would turn out even worse and they’d end up at the short end of a 4-1 result.  Sophia Smith<\/strong> had the lone goal for the Thorns, while Lo’eau LaBonta<\/strong> scored twice for the Current, along with goals by Stine Ballisager Pedersen<\/strong> and Temwa Chawinga<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Thorns would have a good chance just a few minutes on a low shot by Sophia Smith<\/strong>, but it was tipped wide by a nice save by former Thorn Adrianna Franch<\/strong>.  A few minutes later the visitors would have a great chance with an open header by Bia Zaneratto<\/strong>, but it was right at Thorns keeper Shelby Hogan<\/strong> and easily saved.
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In the 22nd minute, a nicely touched heel pass from Hina Sugita<\/strong> gave Smith a great chance in the Current box, but her shot was nicely saved by Franch.  <\/p>\n

But eight minutes later, the Current were finally on the scoreboard when after a cross from the right side, Temwa Chawinga<\/strong> headed towards net, and though it appeared that chance would be saved, Lo’eau LaBonta<\/strong> was able to redirect the shot with her own headed, and the ball ended up in the Thorns net, and Kansas City had a 1-0 lead.
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Then eight minutes after their first goal, Kansas City added a second when the Thorns failed to clear a corner kick that rebounded around inside the box, before Stine Ballisager Pedersen<\/strong> knocked in the rebound from just a few yards out, and the score was now 2-0 in favor of the Current.<\/p>\n

But just two minutes later, the margin was three goals when LaBonta<\/span> had an open look from 20 yards out, and blasted a shot into the upper right corner to make it 3-0 Kansas City.  Just before the half, Portland’s Izzy D’Aquila<\/strong> had a great shot from inside the box tipped wide by Franch, but the visitors held a 3-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n

Less than two minutes into the second half, the Current added another to their total when Chawinga<\/span> had a breakaway chance and fought off her Thorns defender, then finished easily past Hogan, and the score was now 4-0 Current.<\/p>\n

In the 73rd minute, the Thorns were finally on the board when Smith made a nice run down the left side and fought off several Current defenders to the top of the box, then finished with a nice shot just inside the right post to make it 4-1 Kansas City.<\/p>\n

But the Thorns would never threaten again and ended up on the short end of the 4-1 result.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Portland Thorns would have a their chance to redeem themselves from their season opening loss to Kansas City when they had to overcome a huge halftime deficit, but things would turn out even worse and they’d end up at the short end of a 4-1 result.  Sophia Smith had the lone goal for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9414","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\/kc062324-1024.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414","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=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9416,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions\/9416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}