{"id":333629,"date":"2026-05-27T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333629\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:16:08","slug":"thorns-announce-home-friendly-against-san-diego-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333629\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns announce home friendly against San Diego Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; The Portland Thorns will face the San Diego Wave in a friendly match next month, the club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The June 28 match, which will not count towards the NWSL standings, marks the latest chapter in the emerging rivalry between the two clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Portland bounced San Diego from the playoffs last season, and the clubs have split their two matchups this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In addition, the Thorns and Wave are locked in a tight battle near the top of the NWSL standings this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Entering play this weekend, Portland (7-2-3, 23 points) holds a slim lead over San Diego, (7-1-4, 22 points) for second place in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Portland trails only the Utah Royals (7-2-2, 23 points), who have played one fewer match but hold a better goal differential, atop the standings. The Thorns host the Royals on Saturday at 1 p.m., with first place in the NWSL on the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Thorns are then off until the friendly against San Diego, which is set for 4 p.m. at Providence Park on June 28.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; The Portland Thorns will face the San Diego Wave in a friendly match next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[37966,138070,39239,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-333629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-fda","tag-fda-logo","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}