{"id":9562,"date":"2024-08-24T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T22:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9562"},"modified":"2024-08-24T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T22:42:21","slug":"thorns-fall-to-gotham-by-a-2-0-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/08\/24\/thorns-fall-to-gotham-by-a-2-0-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns fall to Gotham by a 2-0 score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns never found their form in their first match after the summer break, and ended up on the short end of a 2-0 loss to Gotham FC.&nbsp; <strong>Ella Stevens <\/strong>and <strong>Rose Lavelle<\/strong> had the goals for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>In the 7th minute, before the Thorns had really even entered the Gotham half of the pitch, the hosts were on the board when <strong>Bruninha<\/strong> made a nice cross that <strong>Ella Stevens<\/strong> got her head to and Thorns goalkeeper <strong>Shelby Hogan<\/strong> had no chance, and Gotham had a 1-0 lead. The home side had the better chances through the rest of the half but neither team really threatened to score again, and Gotham had a 1-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivia Moultrie<\/strong> had a good chance in the 52nd minute after a steal by <strong>Hina Sugita<\/strong> in front of the Gotham goal, but her shot was saved by a tip save by <strong>Ann-Katrin Berger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the 61st minute the Thorns came close to scoring when a cross from <strong>Jessie Fleming<\/strong> was headed by a Gotham defender but continued towards goal and ricocheted off the left post before being cleared.<\/p>\n<p>In the 70th minute, Gotham doubled the lead when<strong> Yasmeen Ryan<\/strong> blasted a low, perfectly placed shot from outside the box past Hogan, and the home side now had a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the 86th minute Gotham nearly scored again when <strong>Rose Lavelle<\/strong> had a blast from outside the box that was off the crossbar and bounced down just in front of the goal line, but the ball was cleared by the Thorns.&nbsp; The Thorns never were able to convert on their few good scoring chances in the second half and Gotham emerged with the 2-0 win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns never found their form in their first match after the summer break, and ended up on the short end of a 2-0 loss to Gotham FC.&nbsp; Ella Stevens and Rose Lavelle had the goals for the hosts. In the 7th minute, before the Thorns had really even entered the Gotham half of [&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-9562","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\/9562","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=9562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9563,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions\/9563"}],"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=9562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}