Wednesday, April 27, 2016

MLS Midweek 2016: April 27th

Three games on to hold over American soccer fans until the weekend. We begin with...

New York City FC hosting the Montreal Impact. Evan Bush and Josh Saunders protect the nets. New York City saw yellow cards for a twenty-ninth minute foul by Mikey Lopez and a thirty-fifth minute foul by Federico Bravo. In the forty-third minute, Ignacio Piatti of Montreal took a yellow card for his dive. New York City got going with an RJ Allen goal in the fifty-first minute, via Thomas McNamara and Khiry Shelton. The Impact's Marco Donadel took a yellow card for a sixty-fifth minute foul. New York City had a yellow card for time wasting by Ethan White in the seventy-eighth minute. Montreal had yellow cards for persistent infringement in the seventy-ninth minute and Wandrille Lefevre in the eighty-ninth minute for his foul. The Impact tied it in stoppage time with a Dominic Oduro goal, set up by Didier Drogba. This made it 1-1, the final, with the man of the match being Oduro for his late equalizer.

Up in Massachutsetts, the New England Revolution welcome the Portland Timbers. Jake Gleeson and Bobby Shuttleworth are in goal. Zarek Valentin of Portland had a yellow card for a foul in first half stoppage time. In the fifty-fourth minute, Diego Fagundez of New England took a yellow card for a foul. The Timbers dented the scoreboard in the sixty-fourth minute with a Jack Barmby goal, assisted by Darlington Nagbe and Fanendo Adi. The Revolution tied it as Jermaine Taylor of Portland put the ball in his own net for an own goal in the eighty-ninth minute. In stoppage time, Lee Nguyen of New England took a yellow card for his foul. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, with the man of the match being Barmby for his critical road goal.

Finally, the Vancouver Whitecaps FC bring in Sporting Kansas City. Alec Kann and David Ousted are in the six-yard boxes. Vancouver struck first in the fourteenth minute with a Christian Bolanos goal, courtesy of Cristian Techera. Kansas City had a yellow card given to Matt Besler for his twenty-second minute foul. Sporting tied it in the twenty-seventh minute on a Diego Rubio goal, coming off of Lawrence Olum and Saad Abdul-Salaam. In the fortieth minute, Kendall Waston of the Whitecaps received a yellow card for a foul. In the forty-first minute, Kansas City's Rubio took a yellow card for his foul. In the fifty-first minute, Vancouver went down to ten men when Waston got a second yellow card for another foul. In the sixtieth minute Nuno Coelho of Sporting had a yellow card for dangerous play. The final held at 1-1, with Rubio the man of the match for the equalizer.

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