{"id":50354,"date":"2015-10-18T23:18:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T06:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.midvalleysports.com\/?p=50354"},"modified":"2015-10-18T23:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T06:18:40","slug":"timbers-bury-galaxy-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=50354","title":{"rendered":"Timbers Bury Galaxy 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50355\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/new.midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=50355\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50355\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50355\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50355\" src=\"http:\/\/new.midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/robbie-keane-vs-portland-600x768.jpg\" alt=\"Robbie Keane scored twice for the Galaxy but it wasn't nearly enough\" width=\"520\" height=\"666\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robbie Keane scored twice for the Galaxy but it wasn&#8217;t nearly enough<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Carson) &#8211; Portland scored five goals in the second half\u00a0and went on to rout the Galaxy 5-2 Sunday before a sold out crowd of 27,000 at StubHub Center.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Galaxy led 1-0 at the half on a goal in the\u00a036th minute by Robbie Keane\u00a0but the Timbers erased that with the second half onslaught.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy had several other opportunities to score in the first half but couldn&#8217;t cash in. Steven Gerrard hit the crossbar\u00a0in the fifth minute after Robbie Keane was taken down on\u00a0 penalty. Later Sebastian Lletget\u00a0missed wide right\u00a0on a shot on goal in the tenth minute.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier\u00a0in the half Leonardo headed one\u00a0off the cross bar\u00a0off of a corner kick and Giovani Dos Santos fired one wide right in the 18th minute as the Galaxy missed two on both chances.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half it was all Timbers.<\/p>\n<p>Portland&#8217;s\u00a0Liam Ridgewell\u00a0booted one high\u00a0the head\u00a0of Orlando Ricketts and over the crossbar early in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Then\u00a0Fanendo\u00a0Adi broke through and tied it\u00a0for Portland in the 65th minute on\u00a0a shot\u00a0over\u00a0Ricketts right in front. Adi then gave the\u00a0Timbers the lead three minutes\u00a0later when he was knocked down and then scored\u00a0on a penalty kick.<\/p>\n<p>Diego Chara\u00a0rushed\u00a0Ricketts and buried\u00a0a header past him in the 75th minute\u00a0and suddenly it was\u00a03-1 Portland as the\u00a0Timbers scored three goals in ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Keane tried to spark a rally as he scored\u00a0off a nice dish by Omar Gonzalez\u00a0but late in the half but before the PA guy\u00a0finished\u00a0announcing the Galaxy goal Timbers came\u00a0right back to score as Darlington Nagbe\u00a0kicked a shot home off a dish from Maxiillinao Urruti in the 85th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Urruti found the net again\u00a0in the 90th minute.\u00a0Four minutes\u00a0of additional time were added but it didn&#8217;t matter as\u00a0Portland\u00a0enjoyed the big victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy fell to 14-10-9 by losing the last regular season home game while the Timbers improved to\u00a014-11-8.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy honored Todd Dunivant before the game.\u00a0Dunivant announced earlier this year that he is retiring after the season is over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Carson) &#8211; Portland scored five goals in the second half\u00a0and went on to rout the Galaxy 5-2 Sunday before a sold out crowd of 27,000 at StubHub Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50356,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50354\/revisions\/50356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}