Sporting Kansas City 3, Dynamo 0
by Zach Woosley on Sep 11, 2011 9:38 AM CDT
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I'm on the road today so expect plenty of reaction to this disaster tomorrow in Monday Morning Centre Back.
Houston Dynamo (8-9-11) vs. Sporting Kansas City (10-8-10)
September 10, 2011 -- LIVEStrong Sporting Park
Attendance: 14,791
Scoring Summary:
KC -- Teal Bunbury 6 (Graham Zusi 5) 9
KC -- Teal Bunbury 7 (Julio Cesar 1) 73
KC -- C.J. Sapong 4 (Kei Kamara 3, Graham Zusi 6) 79
Houston Dynamo -- Tally Hall, Hunter Freeman, Jermaine Taylor, Andre Hainault, Corey Ashe, Colin Clark (Cam Weaver 67), Adam Moffat, Geoff Cameron, Brad Davis (Luiz Camargo 81), Brian Ching (Je-Vaughn Watson 46), Carlo Costly.
Substitutes Not Used: Tyler Deric, Will Bruin, Jason Garey, Kofi Sarkodie.
Sporting Kansas City -- Jimmy Nielsen, Chance Myers (Michael Harrington 78), Matt Besler, Julio Cesar, Seth Sinovic, Roger Espinoza, Jeferson (Davy Arnaud 57), Graham Zusi, Teal Bunbury (Kei Kamara 74), C.J. Sapong, Omar Bravo.
Substitutes Not Used: Eric Kronberg, Birahim Diop, Peterson Joseph, Kei Kamara, Soony Saad.
Game Notes:
The Houston Dynamo fell 3-0 to Sporting Kansas City Saturday afternoon, recovering from a slow start only to see a potential tying shot hit the post and suffer a second-half red card. Kansas City added two goals with the Dynamo down to 10 players to move five points clear of Houston in the Eastern Conference standings.
Dynamo midfielder Brad Davis made the 250th appearance of his MLS career, becoming the third-youngest player in league history to reach that mark, following Kyle Beckerman and Landon Donovan. Davis is the 35th player in MLS history to play in 250 regular season games.
Kansas City controlled the games first 15 minutes and took the lead in the ninth minute when a Graham Zusi long ball found Teal Bunbury behind the Houston back line, and the second-year forward used the outside of his right foot to poke a shot behind Tally Hall to give Kansas City the lead. Houston allowed the first goal for the 17th time in 28 games this season.
Houston recovered from the slow start to outshoot Kansas City 6-3 over the final part of the first half and had a great chance to tie the game when Carlo Costlys shot hit the right post in the 30th minute. Kansas City goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen also appeared to handle the ball outside of the penalty area in the 39th minute, but the violation went uncalled.
Houston continued to carry play in the second half, but the game turned in the 64th minute when Carlo Costly was ejected after catching Chance Myers shin with a sliding tackle. The red card was the fifth time this year Houston has played shorthanded, while the Dynamo have not had a numerical advantage in any game this season.
Kansas City put the game away with two counter-attack goals in the final 17 minutes, as Teal Bunbury scored in the 73rd minute, and C.J. Sapong tapped in a back-post cross in the 79th minute. The Dynamo are now 0-6-8 in road games this season.
Midfielder Luiz Camargo made his competitive Dynamo and MLS debut, coming on as an 81st-minute substitute. Houston defender Corey Ashe made the 70th start of his MLS career and his 160th career appearance for the Dynamo in all competitions, fifth in club history. Midfielder Geoff Cameron made the 95th appearance of his MLS career, and midfielder Colin Clark started the 85th match of his MLS career.
The Dynamo played without midfielder Alex Dixon (finger fracture) and defenders Bobby Boswell (yellow card accumulation) and Eddie Robinson (quad).
Next Match: Wednesday, September 14, 6:30 p.m., Dynamo at Columbus Crew, Crew Stadium, Columbus OH
Next Home Match: Saturday, September 17, 7:30 p.m., Dynamo vs. San Jose Earthquakes, Robertson Stadium
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hate to say it....
but watson looked good out there. outside of that houston’s passing was very poor all night. So many times did the dynamo find themselves around SKC’s penalty area, and they see the easy pass but some how manage to muck it up. very frustrating to watch. send costly home, start weaver or bruin if healthy
by Futbol anonymous on Sep 11, 2011 12:38 PM CDT reply actions
Start Weaver?
I would prefer to start Dixon than Weaver any day. Just because of that red card people want Costly out of the team and I find that sad. Did you see how good he was in the first half? He almost got the game tied if it wasn’t for that pesky post and he almost scored a header. To me he’s already gelling into the team and I believe he will score saturday
you have to be kidding, Costly was the only one in the game that created chances to score against KC, I would say get rid of Weaver. Also, I saw that Alvaro Sanchez will be joining the Dynamo next season and I hope that would move him back to CB paired up with Boswell
ahh my bad, i meant that hopefully this will finally bring CAMERON back to CB with Boswell since Sanchez is a CAM
by Mendoza1011 on Sep 12, 2011 12:23 AM CDT up reply actions
Only source I’ve seen is Tribal Football which can be pretty sketchy. That said, the Dynamo have been interested in this guy for awhile so it makes sense that they’re working on a winter deal to get him here for next season. I’ll see what I can find.
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by Zach Woosley on Sep 12, 2011 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions
Yarp
I saw it on MLS Rumors and there was a post on Tribal Football
Both say that there’s a verbal agreement in place (for whatever that’s worth) and that he would join in January. Sounds great, its just tough to get excited right now because I have no idea what this team is trying to do. We have a very quality midfielder in Camargo but we’re letting him play in friendlies and reserves but only 10 minutes of actual game time. This is the same guy that has been talked up for almost a year now. And guess what? We’ve been talking up Sanchez for about as long now…and I know he’s talented but can he create for himself and others? We’ll see…
I hate to sound so pessimistic this early in the week and perhaps I need patience, but we’re running out of time and patience. There’s what, 6 games to go and instead of having 38pts (and leap-frogging KC) we’re still at 35pts whilst they have 40. Now we have Columbus and we need a positive result. Some would say draw, but a draw would put us at 36pts and at the mercy of what happens with COL v PHI this weekend.
Koke 2.0
bit inaccurate title, but i believe at this point koke had one goal out while doing primarily substitution minutes and being out of shape. costly id in shape and does seem to be clicking at all with the dynamo. Yeah he’s good when he has the ball but getting him the ball is proving to be quite difficult. and seriously dixon instead of weaver? what in the world makes you think dom would ever make this move, you’re just as likely to see dom sub in donovan (re:never happen) for weaver as you would dixon. i do like dixon though.
by Futbol anonymous on Sep 12, 2011 1:23 PM CDT reply actions
Yeah sorry
I give Dom lots of love and slack but I’m really down on this past weekend. He put us in a bad position and things only got worse. While Costly hasn’t scored (he got very close) he’s out for the next match and we’ll see if he gets back in the starting line-up after that. I wouldn’t mind keeping him if he doesn’t expect DP salary (‘cause at this point he’s not worth it)
Mark of a striker
Is putting ball in the back of the net.
End of story.
Close- hand grenades, horseshoes- not footy!
Sorry man
not picking on you, just putting it to Red Card Bhoy!
You're right
though that’s the story of our season. Hope v reality: I want Costly to do well but the results are what they are. He’s not scoring. At this point it puts him on the bench with Carr.
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