This foul occurred at 56:35. Restart at 59:59. And a Portland player gets crocked by the free kick. More delay.
FCD are serving good balls into the box but they have no trailing attackers getting into the right gaps to get a shot off. They need a Daniel Salloi or a Diego Rubio with a nose for space.
FCD finally get a shot on goal. Actually was a good save from Attinella because it was coming through legs and he had to get down quick to block it.
After the corner, but moments before halftime, Chara was walking up the field and Gruezo walked to toward him and started talking to him face to face. Gruezo barely leaned in with the head and so did Chara which resulted in Gruezo going down like he got hit in the head with a beer bottle like George John did. Ref blew whistle*** as handbags began. Teams separated themselves eventually as coaches, staff, and bench came to move the players to the locker rooms. Then the camera pans to coaches pulling some players to the locker room, players talking to the refs (who are all at midfield), shot of Urruti and Blanco(?) walking off arm and arm. Ref then motions everyone to come back. Everyone (coach, staff, bench)is confused and still on the field while some players come back. He then gives yellow to Gruezo and Chara. Everyone walks off the field for half. *** I still don't think he actually blew the whistle for half. I think he just blew the whistle for handbags. I may be missing some parts as the Verizon Fios HD Unimas Channel occasionally looks like 50p with buffering.
I wish they would have both 3 v 6 games on Wednesday to make it clearer how the brackets sort out. I don't like having the 4 v 5 game end and have no idea who the winner will be playing. And there it is. MLS 10-man advantage, as predicted. Dallas 0-2 Portland
It's been a rough day for young american players. Mckenzie, Trusty, Cannon, and Gonzalez responsible for bad plays leading to goals.
I have completely lost count of the number of wild FCD shots which have ended up in the stands. They just have no quality in the final third.
And 3 of the 4 either have been or will be rewarded with US call-ups. McKenzie to the U-20s, Cannon and Gonzalez probably for the November friendlies.
They've only played rugby or American football, explaining why they keep shooting over the bar hoping for 3 points.