{"id":9545,"date":"2024-07-27T21:07:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T04:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9545"},"modified":"2024-07-27T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T04:07:49","slug":"thorns-drop-3-1-summer-cup-result-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/07\/27\/thorns-drop-3-1-summer-cup-result-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns drop 3-1 Summer Cup result in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns played their first road match of the NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup on Saturday night in Utah against the Royals, and would end up on the short end of a 3-1 score.&nbsp; Former Thorns <strong>Hannah Betfort<\/strong> and <strong>Michele Vasconcelos<\/strong> along with <strong>Ally Sentnor<\/strong> would score for the hosts, while <strong>Olivia Moultrie<\/strong> had the lone Thorns goal.<\/p>\n<p>In just the second minute, former Thorn <strong>Hannah Betfort<\/strong> had a good shot that was saved nicely by <strong>Lauren Kozal<\/strong>.&nbsp; In the 4th minute, Utah would be on the board when <strong>Paige Monaghan<\/strong> made a nice run down the right side then crossed to Betfort, who redirected the shot with her back heel, and it was off the left post and into the net on a shot Kozal never had a chance at, and the score was 1-0 Royals.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then in the 17th minute, Monaghan had an open chance herself on a nice cross from the left side, but couldn&#8217;t get her foot on the ball and then chance was lost.<\/p>\n<p>And in the 21st minute, Utah would make their control of the match pay off again, when<strong> Ally Sentnor<\/strong> made a nice cut across the top of the Thorns box, then blasted a shot just inside the right post, and the Royals lead was now 2-0, which would be the score at the break.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns would make their first good scoring chance of the match pay off in the 66th minute when <strong>Olivia Moultrie<\/strong>, getting her first playing time since her injury, made a nice cut at the top of the Utah box, then blasted a shot into the upper left corner of the Utah net, and the score was now 2-1 Royals.<\/p>\n<p>But in the 76th minute, Utah would restore their two-goal lead when <strong>Michele Vasconcelos<\/strong> (another former Thorn) made a nice cutback after a run down the right side, and her shot deflected off a Thorns defender and into the net, and the score was 3-1 Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns had some really good chances to pull a goal back late, their best being in the 89th minute when a free kick by Moultrie looked destined to slip just inside the left post but a brilliant tip save by Utah goalkeeper <strong>Mandy Haught<\/strong> kept it out.&nbsp; After six minutes of stoppage the Royals had the 3-1 win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns played their first road match of the NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup on Saturday night in Utah against the Royals, and would end up on the short end of a 3-1 score.&nbsp; Former Thorns Hannah Betfort and Michele Vasconcelos along with Ally Sentnor would score for the hosts, while Olivia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-thorns","category-thorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/thorns-fans.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545","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=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}