{"id":9613,"date":"2024-09-14T20:44:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T03:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=9613"},"modified":"2024-09-14T20:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T03:44:55","slug":"timbers-fall-short-in-colorado-lose-by-2-1-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2024\/09\/14\/timbers-fall-short-in-colorado-lose-by-2-1-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers fall short in Colorado, lose by 2-1 score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rapids took the lead in the 14th minute when a ball rebounded around several times just outside the Timbers box, falling to <strong>Jonathan Lewis<\/strong> who was just onside, who finished with a low shot past <strong>Maxime Cr\u00e9peau<\/strong>, and Colorado had a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after a great shot from Evander was saved, in the 24th minute, the Timbers would tie it up off a corner kick from <strong>Evander<\/strong> that was headed towards the back post by <strong>Miguel Araujo<\/strong>, then finished by a header from <strong>David Ayala<\/strong>, and the score was now level at 1-1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the 44th minute the Timbers had a great chance to take the lead on a breakaway by <strong>Antony<\/strong>, but goalkeeper <strong>Zack Steffen<\/strong> got a touch on the ball as Antony rounded him, and an attempt to cross to <strong>Jonathan Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong> missed and the chance was lost.<\/p>\n<p>Just into the second half, Antony had a great chance to take the lead when Evander found him wide open on a breakaway, but Evander couldn&#8217;t get a good strike and put the shot wide right.&nbsp; Minutes later <strong>Rafael Navarro<\/strong> had a good look for Colorado but his shot was off the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>In the 71st minute the Rapids would re-take the lead off a free kick from about 30 yards out by <span class=\"mw-page-title-main\"><strong>Djordje Mihailovic<\/strong> that the Timbers defense really made no effort to defender as&nbsp;Navarro headed it home, and the score was now 2-1 to the home side.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Timbers had great chances in stoppage time, by <strong>Felipe Mora<\/strong> and <strong>Mason Toye<\/strong>, but never found the equalizer, even though they had a man advantage for the last minute or so, and fell by a 2-1 score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rapids took the lead in the 14th minute when a ball rebounded around several times just outside the Timbers box, falling to Jonathan Lewis who was just onside, who finished with a low shot past Maxime Cr\u00e9peau, and Colorado had a 1-0 lead. Not long after a great shot from Evander was saved, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9613","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\/04\/fans-scarves.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613","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=9613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9614,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9613\/revisions\/9614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}