Wednesday, May 28, 2014

MLS Midweek Games, May 27 and 28, 2014

There's a handful of games on during the week. The first is a Tuesday game, as...

Sporting Kansas City hosts the New York Red Bulls. Luis Robles and Eric Kronberg are set to start. Kansas City opened with a Toni goal, assisted by Benny Feilhaber. New York picked up some yellow cards as Bradley Wright-Phillips and Dax McCarty committed fouls in the fourteenth and twentieth minutes. The Red Bulls tied it in the fiftieth minute on a Wright-Phillips goal, passed from Thierry Henry. Sporting saw Kevin Ellis pick up a yellow card for a foul in the sixty-third minute. Kansas City also was given a yellow in the eighty-seventh minute on a foul by Toni. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, with the man of the match being Wright-Phillips for his equalizer.

On Wednesday, Chivas USA hosts the Portland Timbers. Donovan Ricketts and Dan Kennedy are manning the nets. The two teams traded yellow cards early in the first half, as Danny O'Rourke of Portland committed a foul in the eighth minute, followed by Marco Delgado's foul in the tenth minute for Chivas. Chivas got another yellow card in the twenty-eighth minute on a foul by Agustin Pelletieri. Portland got on the board in the sixty-fifth minute with a Fanendo Adi goal, assisted by Jorge VillafaƱa and Darlington Nagbe. The Timbers added on in the seventy-first minute as Adi scored his second of the game, set up by Diego Valeri. Chivas, already behind on the scoreboard, went down a man after Bobby Burling committed a serious foul in the eighty-fourth minute, for which he got a straight red. In the eighty-seventh minute, Chivas' Carlos Alvarez was booked for a yellow card on a foul. The Timbers' Rauwshan McKenzie was shown a yellow card for a foul in the third minute of stoppage time. The final was 2-0, with Adi being the man of the match for his brace.

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