Saturday, March 25, 2017

MLS 2017: Week 4

Only three games on this weekend, as MLS takes a partial break for the international action. We begin with...

The New England Revolution hosting Minnesota United FC. Bobby Shuttleworth faces his former team and Cody Cropper in goal. New England opened in the fourth minute with a Juan Agudelo goal, via Chris Tierney and Scott Caldwell. Minnesota tied it on a fifteenth minute goal by Collen Warner, passed from Christian Ramirez. The Revolution retook the lead with a Kei Kamara goal in the twenty-first minute, coming off of Lee Nguyen and Diego Fagundez. New England added on with a thirty-second minute Nguyen penalty kick goal. The Revolution extended the lead as Agudelo scored his second of the game in the forty-first minute, thanks to Fagundez. Minnesota got one back in the forty-ninth minute with a Brent Kallman goal. New England replied in the fifty-third minute on a Tierney penalty kick goal. The final held at 5-2, with the man of the match being Agudelo for his brace.

Down in Red Bull Arena, the New York Red bulls welcome Real Salt Lake. Matt VanOekel is mismatched with Luis Robles in goal. New York's Kemar Lawrence took a yellow card for a forty-second minute foul. Luke Mulholland of Salt Lake took a yellow card for a foul in the fifty-seventh minute, followed by teammates Luis Silva in the sixty-sixth minute for a foul, Sunny in the sixty-eighth minute for dissent, Aaron Maund in the seventieth minute for a foul, and Ricardo Velazco in the eighty-seventh minute for a foul. The game ended 0-0, with the man of the match being VanOekel for a three-save clean sheet in a rare appearance.

Finally, the Columbus Crew SC bring in the Portland Timbers. Jake Gleeson and Zack Steffen draw the starts in goal. Portland started in the fourth minute with a Dairon Asprilla goal, coming off of Sebastian Blanco. Columbus tied it in the eleventh minute with a Justin Meram goal. The Crew took the lead in the nineteenth minute with an Ola Kamara goal, set up by Federico Higuain. The Timbers had a yellow card for a Diego Chara foul in the twenty-fifth minute. Columbus' Wil Trapp received a yellow card for his twenty-sixth minute foul. Portland retied it on a first half stoppage time goal by Fanendo Adi, made possible by Alvas Powell. The Crew's Artur took a yellow card for a sixty-third minute foul. The Timbers had yellow cards for Blanco and Diego Valeri in the sixty-ninth and seventieth minutes, both for fouls. Columbus pulled ahead with an eighty-fourth minute goal by Niko Hansen. This made it 3-2, the final, with the man of the match being Hansen for his first MLS goal, the game-winner.

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