{"id":243540,"date":"2025-09-21T09:18:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243540\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:18:15","slug":"recap-portland-timbers-lose-1-0-on-the-road-to-houston-dynamo-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243540\/","title":{"rendered":"RECAP | Portland Timbers lose 1-0 on the road to Houston Dynamo FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <strong>Portland set to play two matches over the next seven days<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2013 Despite hitting the post twice deep into second-half stoppage time, the Portland Timbers (11-10-9, 42pts) lost 1-0 to Houston Dynamo FC (9-13-9, 36pts) Saturday night at Shell Energy Park. It marked the first of three matches in an eight-day span for the Timbers. Up next for Portland, the club will travel to BC Place to take on Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Wednesday, September 24.<\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>Goal-Scoring Plays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU \u2013 Ezequiel Ponce (Jack McGlynn), 44th minute:<\/strong> Ezequiel Ponce scored a header off a corner kick from Jack McGlynn.<\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>Portland Timbers (11-10-9, 42pts) vs. Houston Dynamo FC (9-13-9, 36pts)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 20, 2025 \u2013 Shell Energy Stadium (Houston, Texas)<\/p>\n<p>Scoring Summary:<br \/>HOU: Ponce (McGlynn), 44<\/p>\n<p>Misconduct Summary:<br \/>POR: Ortiz (caution), 21<br \/>HOU: Ortiz (caution), 38<br \/>HOU: Raines (caution), 58<br \/>HOU: Dorsey (caution), 63<br \/>HOU: Urso (caution), 70<br \/>POR: Zuparic (caution), 73<br \/>HOU: Sviatchenko (caution), 80<\/p>\n<p>Lineups:<br \/>POR: GK Pantemis, D E. Miller (Lassiter, 79), D Surman, D Zuparic, D Smith, M Ortiz (Rojas, 60), M Ayala (Paredes, 69), M Da Costa, F Velde (Chara, 69), F Antony, F Mora \u00a9 (Kelsy, 69)<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes Not Used: GK Muse, D K. Miller, M Fernandez, F Guerra<\/p>\n<p>TOTAL SHOTS: 9 (Rojas, 3); SHOTS ON GOAL: 4 (Antony, 2); FOULS: 10 (three players tied, 3); OFFSIDES: 2; CORNER KICKS: 4; SAVES: 6<\/p>\n<p>HOU: GK Bond, D Ortiz, D Dorsey, D Sviatchenko \u00a9, D Andrade, D Lingr (Bassi, 67), M Ennali (Holmes, 80), M McGlynn (Awodesu, 90+2), M Urso, M Raines (Samass\u00e9kou, 90+2), F Ponce<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes Not Used: GK Maurer, D Lowe, F Segal, F Santos, F Kowalczyk<\/p>\n<p>TOTAL SHOTS: 21 (McGlynn, 3), SHOTS ON GOAL: 7 (McGlynn, 1); FOULS: 11 (four players tied, 2); OFFSIDES: 0; CORNER KICKS: 11; SAVES: 4<\/p>\n<p>Referee: Allen Chapman<br \/>Assistant Referees: Ian McKay, Matthew Nelson<br \/>Fourth Official: John Matto<br \/>VAR: Kevin Stott<br \/>Attendance: 18,357<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland set to play two matches over the next seven days HOUSTON \u2013 Despite hitting the post twice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[462,4345,125038,3007,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-243540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-club","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houvspor-09-20-2025","11":"tag-team","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115241544046853186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}