{"id":315153,"date":"2025-10-19T04:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315153\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:41:13","slug":"pellegrino-and-dreyer-help-san-diego-beats-timbers-4-0-clinch-no-1-seed-in-western-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/315153\/","title":{"rendered":"Pellegrino and Dreyer help San Diego beats Timbers 4-0, clinch No. 1 seed in Western Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PORTLAND, Ore. &#8212; PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Amahl Pellegrino and Anders Dreyer each had two goals and an assist to help San Diego FC beat the Portland Timbers 4-0 on Saturday night to clinch the top seed in Western Conference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">San Diego (19-9-6) finished the regular season with 63 points \u2014 the most by an expansion club in MLS history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Portland (11-12-11) fell to eighth in the Western Conference and will play ninth-seeded Dallas on Wednesday in the Wild Card game. The winner takes on San Diego in the best-of-three first round. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pellegrino, after a Timbers giveaway in their defensive half, ran onto a ball played ahead by Dreyer and his first-touch finish from the center of the area gave San Diego the lead for good in the 26th minute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Dreyer added goals in the 47th and 49th minutes and, following another Portland turnover, Pellegino knocked down a pass played by Jeppe Tverskov and then scored from just inside the area to make it 4-0 in the 63rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">CJ dos Santos had two saves for San Diego. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">San Diego had 64% possession and outshot the Timbers 16-11, 7-2 on target. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">More AP soccer: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/Soccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/Soccer<\/a> and <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. &#8212; PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Amahl Pellegrino and Anders Dreyer each had two goals and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[158466,5229,347,1582,276,36220,3549,7264,221,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-315153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-158466","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-mls-soccer","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115398998982505692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315153","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=315153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}