{"id":369916,"date":"2025-11-10T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:10:11","slug":"san-diego-4-0-portland-nov-9-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369916\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego 4-0 Portland (Nov 9, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO — Anders Dreyer<\/a> and Amahl Pellegrino<\/a> scored two goals each to help\u00a0San Diego FC<\/a> beat the Portland Timbers<\/a> 4-0 on Sunday night and win their best-of-3 first-round series in the MLS Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n

No. 1 seed San Diego plays fourth-seeded Minnesota in the single-game Western Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n

Pablo Sisniega<\/a> made his second career playoff start at goalkeeper for the injured CJ dos Santos and had two saves for San Diego. Dos Santos suffered a broken cheekbone early in the team’s penalty-kick shootout loss to Portland last week in Game 2 to force a decisive third game.<\/p>\n

Dreyer, on the counter-attack, skipped a volley from the center of the area — off an arcing ball-in played by Onni Valakari<\/a>\u00a0— into the net to give No. 1 seed San Diego the lead for good in the fifth minute.<\/p>\n

Pellegrino slammed home the rebound of his own shot to make it 2-0 in the 17th. Again on the counter-attack, Pellegrino’s first-touch was parried by diving goalkeeper James Pantemis<\/a>, but Pellegrino was there for the putback from point-blank range.<\/p>\n

Corey Baird<\/a> lofted a cross from the right side of the area to the back post where Pellegrino was there for the rising volley into the top-net in the 53rd minute and Dreyer’s second goal capped the scoring in the 79th.<\/p>\n

Juan Mosquera<\/a> was shown a straight red card in the 80th and the Timbers played a man down the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

Pantemis finished with five saves for No. 8 seed Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO — Anders Dreyer and Amahl Pellegrino scored two goals each to help\u00a0San Diego FC beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-369916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115527222823304962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369916","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=369916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}