{"id":438857,"date":"2026-08-21T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438857\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:22:09","slug":"velde-has-a-goal-and-an-assist-pantemis-has-5-saves-as-timbers-beat-san-diego-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438857\/","title":{"rendered":"Velde has a goal and an assist, Pantemis has 5 saves as Timbers beat San Diego 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Kristoffer Velde had a goal and an assist, Ariel Lassiter and David Da Costa each added a goal, and the Portland Timbers beat San Diego FC 3-1 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>James Pantemis had five saves for the Timbers (8-9-3).<\/p>\n<p>On the counter-attack, Velde blasted a shot from 25 yards out that slipped past the outstretched fingers of diving goalkeeper CJ dos Santos and inside the back post to open the scoring in the 29th minute.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego (6-8-6) had its three-game unbeaten streak snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Pirani, at the top of the box, cut back to evade a defender and casually rolled a shot inside the left post to make it 1-1 in first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Jimer Fory, on the left side of the area, ran onto a ball-ahead from Velde and played a first-touch cross to a charging Lassiter for a rising finish from point-blank range that gave the Timbers a 2-1 lead in the 51st.<\/p>\n<p>Da Costa bent a shot from outside the area inside the back post that capped the scoring in the 68th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Dos Santos finished with two saves.<\/p>\n<p>Portland beat San Diego 2-1 on April 22 at Snapdragon Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Kristoffer Velde had a goal and an assist, Ariel Lassiter and David Da Costa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-438857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","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\/438857","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=438857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}