Wednesday, August 24, 2016

MLS Midweek 8/24/16

There are six games on this Wednesday, helping to rebalance the schedule a bit. We begin with...

Orlando City SC hosting Toronto FC. Alex Bono and Joe Bendik get the starts in goal. Toronto led off in the seventh minute with a Tosaint Ricketts goal, assisted by Sebastian Giovinco. Marco Delgado of Toronto had a yellow card for his foul in the fifty-second minute. Orlando City tied it in the fifty-sixth minute on a Cyle Larin goal, made possible by Luke Boden. Seb Hines of Orlando City received a yellow card for a fifty-seventh minute foul, as did teammate David Mateos in the eighty-second minute. Toronto took the lead in the eighty-sixth minute on a Jozy Altidore goal, coming off of Giovinco. The game ended at 2-1, with the man of the match being Giovinco for his two assists.

Up in Columbus, the Crew SC welcome the Philadelphia Union. Andre Blake and Steve Clark protect the nets. Philadelphia got going in the sixtieth minute with a Fabian Herbers goal. Columbus tied it in the seventy-third minute on an Adam Jahn goal. The Union retook the lead in the seventy-fourth minute as Keegan Rosenberry scored, thanks to Tranquillo Barnetta. Philadelphia's Alejandro Bedoya received a yellow card for a seventy-eighth minute foul. The game ended at 2-1, with Rosenberry's quick response winner earning him the man of the match title.

Into Canada, where the Montreal Impact bring in DC United. Bill Hamid and Evan Bush are in the six-yard boxes. Steve Birnbaum of DC had a yellow card for an eighth minute foul. Bush, the Montreal keeper, took a yellow card for dissent in the thirty-sixth minute. United began in the thirty-ninth minute with a Lamar Neagle penalty kick goal. DC saw yellow cards for Marcelo Sarvas in the sixty-third minute and Kennedy Igboananike in the sixty-seventh minute, both for fouls. The Impact tied it on a Hassoun Camara goal in the seventy-seventh minute, assisted by Marco Donadel. United went down to ten men in the eighty-ninth minute as Kofi Opare took a straight red card for his foul. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, with Camara the man of the match for his equalizer.

Back stateside, the Chicago Fire host the Los Angeles Galaxy. Clement Diop is mismatched with Sean Johnson in goal. Los Angeles opened in the thirty-first minute on a Gyasi Zardes goal. Chicago tied it with a thirty-fourth minute goal by Arturo Alvarez. Jelle Van Damme of the Galaxy had a yellow card for his thirty-eighth minute foul, and it led to the Fire's go-ahead goal on a thirty-ninth minute David Accam penalty kick goal. Los Angeles retied it on a sixty-ninth minute Giovani dos Santos goal, coming off of Alan Gordon and Sebastian Lletget. The Galaxy saw yellow cards for Lletget in the seventy-first minute and Baggio Husidic in the seventy-sixth minute, both for fouls. Accam took a yellow card for a foul in stoppage time. The game ended at 2-2, with dos Santos the man of the match for his equalizer.

In Texas, the Houston Dynamo welcome the Seattle Sounders FC. Stefan Frei and Joe Willis are between the posts. Cristian Roldan of Seattle had a yellow card for his fiftieth minute foul. Houston dented the scoreboard in the seventy-fifth minute on an Andrew Wenger goal, passed from Ricardo Clark and Will Bruin. The Sounders tied it in stoppage time with a Nicolas Lodeiro goal, assisted by Joevin Jones and Andreas Ivanschitz. The game ended at 1-1, with Lodeiro the man of the match for the late equalizer.

Finally, the San Jose Earthquakes bring in the New England Revolution. Brad Knighton and David Bingham are in goal. San Jose's Anibal Godoy had a yellow card for a twenty-fifth minute foul. The Earthquakes saw yellow cards assessed to Darwin Ceren in the fifty-fourth minute and Simon Dawkins in the seventy-fifth minute, both for fouls. New England's Gershon Koffie and Teal Bunbury took yellow cards for fouls in the eighty-second and eighty-seventh minutes, respectively. The game ended 0-0, with the man of the match being Bingham for his three-save clean sheet.

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