{"id":9579,"date":"2024-09-04T21:06:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2024-09-04T21:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:06:35","slug":"thorns-open-concacaf-w-champions-league-win-a-3-1-win-over-club-america-femenil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/09\/04\/thorns-open-concacaf-w-champions-league-win-a-3-1-win-over-club-america-femenil\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns open CONCACAF W Champions League win a 3-1 win over Club Am\u00e9rica Femenil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns played a rotated roster on Wednesday night opening their play in the CONCACAF W Champions League but it was more than enough for a 3-1 win over <span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Club Am\u00e9rica Femenil<\/span>.&nbsp; <strong>Christine Sinclair<\/strong> had two goals while <strong>Reilyn Turner<\/strong> added a third.&nbsp; <strong>Irene Guerrero<\/strong> had the lone goal for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>In the 13th minute, the Thorns would take the lead when <strong>Olivia Wade-Katoa<\/strong> forced a turnover deep in the <span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Club Am\u00e9rica Femenil <\/span>end of the field, then <strong>Christine Sinclair<\/strong> quickly hit a curling shot from 30 yards out the was over the head of <span class=\"mw-page-title-main\">Am\u00e9rica<\/span> goalkeeper <strong>Sandra Pa\u00f1os<\/strong> and into the net, and the Thorns had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the 27th minute, Sinclair was on the board again when during a Thorns breakaway after the visitors had turned over the ball, <strong>Marie M\u00fcller<\/strong> played a perfect pass to an open Sinclair at the top of the box, who finished easily, and the score was 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the 36th minute, the visitors had their first really good scoring chance on a shot by <strong>Kiana Palacios<\/strong> that was saved nicely by <strong>Mackenzie Arnold<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Thorns had a 2-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the 52nd minute, the Thorns widened their lead on a corner kick when <strong>Reilyn Turner<\/strong> headed it perfectly into the upper right corner to give the Thorns the 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>But just two minutes later the Thorns lead was two goals again when<strong> Irene Guerrero<\/strong> nicely chipped a shot from the top of the box to made the Thorns lead 3-1.&nbsp; Neither team threatened again and the Thorns held on for the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Thorns played a rotated roster on Wednesday night opening their play in the CONCACAF W Champions League but it was more than enough for a 3-1 win over Club Am\u00e9rica Femenil.&nbsp; Christine Sinclair had two goals while Reilyn Turner added a third.&nbsp; Irene Guerrero had the lone goal for the visitors. In the [&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-9579","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\/9579","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=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9580,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9580"}],"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=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}