After scoring two goals within a minute of each other only minutes into the second half it was looking like the Timbers had taken control of a game that had previously been firmly held by the New York Red Bulls on a fifth minute goal by Austin Da Luz. To the Timbers' misfortune that lead wasn't to hold. Another goal was added to the tally after New York defender Stephen Keel slid in on a Jorge Perlaza cross in the sixty seventh minute and knocked the ball into his own net, but the Red Bulls kept fighting and ended up drawing even. First came a goal courtesy of Thierry Henry, assisted by the earlier goalscorer, to bring the deficit down to one. Then, late into stoppage time New York was working their way into the box and the ball got crossed directly into the arm of a Timbers defender drawing a penalty. Ironically, twenty minutes earlier the Timbers had earned a penalty kick, but captain Jack Jewsbury clanged it off of the post. Dwayne De Rosario showed how to really take a PK, burying it into the back of the net just past a reaching Troy Perkins. That may have ended the game, but the drama didn't end there. Just two minutes prior to New York's game tying penalty kick an incident occurred between Henry and Adam Moffet, which despite the two shaking hands and putting it aside, resulted in a straight red for Henry and a yellow for Moffet. Now the Red Bulls will be heading into their mid-week meeting with the Seattle Sounders even more short-handed than they already were and without their top-scorer.
Notes
- The final tally for fouls during the match came out to 25 for the Red Bulls and 5 for the Timbers. That's more than a little lop-sided don't you think?
- The Timbers have two of the most offside players of the league in their squad, strikers Kenny Cooper and Jorge Perlaza, and they certainly re-enforced that stat tonight
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