ORLANDO CITY SC vs. PORTLAND TIMBERSCITRUS BOWL, Orlando, FloridaAPRIL 3, 2016 (WEEK 5, MLS GAME #42)8 pm ET (FS1, MLS LIVE)
It's a prominent interconference matchup to finish off the MLS weekend when Orlando City SC play host to the Portland Timbers on MLS Soccer Sunday at the Citrus Bowl before a FS1 crowd. Orlando City are still undefeated to begin the new season, falling off their first win of the year two weeks prior in a 1-0 triumph at New York City FC. The Timbers are taking off subsequent to returning for an essential point in a 2-2 home draw with Real Salt Lake at Providence Park two weeks back.
Cyle Larin made it three objectives from three amusements with a marker in each, as Orlando City SC stayed undefeated on the new season in their last match with their first win of the year, a 1-0 triumph at New York City FC on March 18.
Fanendo Adi did it once more, scoring two objectives as the Timbers conquered a late two-objective deficiency to record a 2-2 draw with Real Salt Lake on March 19 at Providence Park. Adi has scored 28 objectives in 60 group appearances; in the 18 recreations when Adi has scored an objective, he's netted a support in 10 of those.
The groups met once in Orlando City's inaugural season, Cyle Larin and Kaká netting objectives as OCSC left away with a 2-0 win against the Timbers on April 12 at Providence Park.
REFEREE: Alan Kelly. AR1 (bench): Eric Weisbrod; AR2 (opposite): Kyle Longville; 4th: Caleb Mendez MLS Career: 38 games; FC/gm: 26.3; Y/gm: 3.3; R: 11; pens: 14 SUSPENDED: none DISABLED LIST: none INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none HEAD-TO-HEAD ALL-TIME (1 meeting): Orlando City 1 win, 2 goals -- Timbers 0 wins, 0 goals -- Ties 3 AT ORLANDO CITY: First meeting. LAST YEAR (MLS): 4/12: POR 0, ORL 2 (Larin 30; Kaka 85)
This is the only league meeting between the teams this season.
Coaches record: Caleb Porter vs. ORL: P1 W0 L1 T0 -- Adrian Heath vs. POR: P1 W1 L0 T0
"Ties are the same, but they’re a little bit different where, if we would have got scored on late, it would have been sickening but it does give you a lift when you score late and get something out of the game."
With the Quakes reuniting the 1996 San Jose Clash and celebrating the inaugural match in Major League Soccer history, a game won 1-0 by San Jose, it was the Earthquakes substitutes on Saturday night who saved the day vs. D.C. United with Shea Salinas finding Adam Jahn for an 89th minute equalizer to make it 1-1 and salvage a point for San Jose. Jahn was an 82nd minute substitute and Salinas came in the 71st. Salinas provided an almost immediate spark for a San Jose attack that didn’t lack for opportunity and offensive build up during the match. It took a Salinas cross from the right side and a tremendous sliding finish by Jahn to the D.C. far post that finally got the ball across the line and into the United goal. “I thought even at halftime, we were good for a couple of goals and to go in down 1-0, we were kind of shaking our heads as to how that happened,” said San Jose head coach Dominic Kinnear. “We were creating a lot of chances. I just told the guys, keep the same energy, we’re going to get chances. Keep fighting for second balls that are dropping in midfield and I thought the effort tonight was great. Ties are the same, but they’re a little bit different where, if we would have got scored on late, it would have been sickening but it does give you a lift when you score late and get something out of the game.” The Quakes produced a number of dangerous scoring opportunities in the first half. Quincy Amarikwa had a shot saved in the 25th minute and sailed the rebound over the D.C. United crossbar. Ten minutes later, Amarikwa put a Chris Wondolowski pass into the back of the net only to have it disallowed by an offside call. San Jose owned 57 percent of the possession in the first half with Alberto Quintero and Matias Perez Garcia proving crafty and dangerous for the Quakes. So it stung even more when Lamar Neagle chipped a ball into the box and found a cutting Nyarko for the header from about seven yards out to put D.C. up 1-0 on a goal against the run of play. “They (United) took their chance well,” Kinnear said. San Jose pressed in the second half, but with time ticking away, it looked like D.C. would spoil the party and get a bit of revenge some 20 years in the making. “We were playing well and a little more direct the last 20 minutes or so,” Kinnear said of his decision to go with Jahn late in the contest. “A lot of balls were falling so I thought with Adam we could get a little more territory by his height. His finish was great. At that particular time, it helped to have Adam’s height and his eagerness to get on the end of crosses. Good for him.” The Jahn goal began a flurry of offensive urgency by San Jose to try and score the game-winner. A Marvell Wynne throw-in found Jahn in the box who flicked it over to Wondolowski, narrowly missing that game winner with a tap. MAN OF THE MATCH: Jahn gets the nod as the Man of the Match for his timely goal. Jahn spent some time last week training and playing for United Soccer League affiliate Sacramento Republic. Kinnear commented postgame that Jahn had an extra skip in his step and showed more confident during training this week because of his time in Sacramento. Jahn rewarded Kinnear’s faith with a goal. TURNING POINT: It’s easy to point at Jahn’s goal as the turning point of the match, but Salinas coming into the match in the 71st minute was huge for San Jose. While the Quakes didn’t lack for opportunities throughout the game, Salinas’ presence gave San Jose an extra boost. It was his cross that found Jahn for the game-winning goal. BOOKED: San Jose: Shaun Francis (yellow, 31’), Andres Imperiale (yellow, 59’) D.C. United: Taylor Kemp (yellow, 59’), Patrick Nyarko (yellow, 64’), Luciano Acosta (yellow, 86’). ATTENDANCE: Reported attendance at Avaya Stadium was 18,000. INJURY REPORT: Kinnear commented on the status of midfielder Anibal Godoy. He said that Godoy has a bruised knee and was on crutches as recently as two days ago. UP NEXT: The Earthquakes will look for their first positive road result on April 9 when they face FC Dallas. Game time is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and you can catch the action on Comcast SportsNet California
Another weekend, another delicious free kick from Dimitri Payet.
Slaven Bilic calls him "Superman" which is as it should be. Dimitri Payet is just on another planet, and crisp off praising his 29th birthday with a stellar presentation for France amid the worldwide break, West Ham's pro is grinding away once more. Payet has brought home the bacon from dead-ball situations this season, and has made his imprint as one of the world's best in such manner. He shocked every one of us against Bournemouth ahead of schedule in the new year, and most eminently netted in consecutive FA Cup matches against Blackburn and Manchester United. Of course for Les Blues against Russia midweek. Primary concern: It's getting somewhat wild (positively.)
Against Crystal Palace on Saturday, he twisted home another excellence into the top corner and left Wayne Hennessey attached to his spot, giving the Hammers a 2-1 lead heading into the break. Watch (and wonder):
A seven-man wall, you say? No problem! Keep smashing 'em in, Dimitri. We're not complaining.
Lexi Thompson encouraged Saturday to place herself in position for a keep running at another triumph jump into Poppie's Pond. For the majority of the warm evening at Mission Hills, it looked as though her new enormous headed putter may wind up in the beverage — or in a bent load in the closest refuse can. Beating her battles on the greens, Thompson made two late birdies and nestled into 15-foot falcon putt on the standard 5 eighteenth gap to take a one-stroke lead into the last round of the ANA Inspiration. "It was certainly somewhat baffling," Thompson said. "I simply attempted to stay positive. I got disappointed. I'm not going to mislead anybody. In any case, I simply attempted to remind myself the putts I made the most recent two days, and recall those strokes and getting that inclination, and fundamentally instructing myself to simply put a more certain stroke on it, put some more speed on it."
Cristiano Ronaldohttp://www.foxsports.com/soccer/cristiano-ronaldo-player scored late for 10-man Real Madrid to grab a 2-1 rebound win at Barcelona and restore its thin any expectations of trying for the Spanish class title on Saturday. Madrid finished Barcelona's Spanish record unbeaten streak at 39 diversions over all rivalries with its first dig out from a deficit win at Camp Nou since 1965, as per STATS. In Zinedine Zidane's first clasico as a supervisor, Madrid vindicated a 4-0 home misfortune to Barcelona it persisted under Rafa Benitez in November by managing the Catalan club its first thrashing since Oct. 3. On a night that Barcelona respected Johan Cruyff with a moving tribute, it was Ronaldo and Madrid's star advances that beat Lionel Messi, Neymar, and Luis Suarez. After a dreary first a large portion of, Barcelona's Gerard Pique opened the scoring with a header in the 56th. Be that as it may, Karim Benzema adjusted six minutes after the fact, and Ronaldo opened in the champ in the 85th, minutes after Madrid's Sergio Ramos got a second reserving. "Madrid is the merited champ," Pique said. "Indeed, even before Ramos' sending off, there were five minutes when we didn't have control of the match. I don't know whether we got tired, however we couldn't figure out how to assault." The huge win kept Madrid in third place, one point behind Atletico Madrid after its 5-1 win over Real Betis, diminishing the shortfall with Barcelona to seven focuses with seven adjusts left. Given the impressive hole and lessening opportunities to overwhelm both leaders, Madrid's absolute best at flatware still rests in the Champions League, where it will play German side Wolfsburg on Wednesday.
"Regulated, first we need to overwhelm Atletico Madrid since we are still third, and afterward we will see what happens," Zidane said. "What I can say is that triumphant here is a gigantic prize for our players in light of the fact that actually they played a tremendous match. "It's critical for our confidence to win here, and just before we play a diversion in the Champions League in Germany." In spite of the misfortune, Barcelona's mission to rehash its uncommon treble of Liga, Copa del Rey, and European Cup from last season stays in place. Barcelona has Atletico in the Champions League on Tuesday. "Their first objective startled us and shockingly we lost our first amusement at home" this season, Barcelona mentor Luis Enrique said. "We need to shake it off and recuperate for the Champions League, which will be a requesting match. We need to imagine that we are still the pioneers with seven adjusts left." Before kickoff, Barcelona played a video of numerous previous players offering gratitude to previous player and director Cruyff, who passed on of lung malignancy a week ago. The 90,000 or more group reacted with a long applause, and shaped a colossal mosaic with the message "Expresses gratitude toward Johan" in Catalan while they sang the club song of devotion before a moment of quiet. The same message was additionally painted in favor of the pitch and worn on the players' shirts. Another round of commendation came at the 14-minute imprint, to pay tribute to his number as a player. After halftime, the force revved up, and Keylor Navas needed to plunge and extend his fingertips to turn Messi's sly heaved shot past his post. From the subsequent corner, there was nothing Navas could do to keep out Pique's pointblank header, when Pique circled Neymar and Suarez toward the close post to free himself from Pepe. Madrid immediately leveled against the stream of the match when Marcelo drove a disarranged assault that fixed Barcelona when Toni Kroos' diverted pass tumbled to Benzema to clear in. While Barcelona fought to recapture control, Madrid mounted an influx of counterattacks that in the long run paid off. Gareth Bale seemed to have scored yet his objective was waived off for a foul on Jordi Alba. Minutes after the fact, Ronaldo jogged down and sent a ball off the highest point of the bar. Ramos' second yellow card for an ungainly foul on Suarez didn't swing the stream back Barcelona's direction, and Madrid got the conclusive objective when Bale crossed the ball to Ronaldo at the far post. He chested the ball down after Dani Alves confused his test and penetrated it under Claudio Bravo for his association driving 29th objective of the season.
Somewhere else, Valencia lost at Las Palmas 2-1 in the introduction of mentor Pako Ayestaran.
At the point when the Chicago Blackhawks open the Stanley Cup playoffs they will be without the administrations of their best defenseman for the principal amusement. The association reported Friday evening that Duncan Keith has been suspended for six amusements for a high-staying episode including Minnesota Wild forward Charlie Coyle prior this week. After a fight that brought about Coyle thumping Keith to the ice, Keith swung his stick at Coyle's head and hit him specifically in the face bringing about a really sizable cut on his nose. Coyle was in the long run ready to come back to the amusement, while Keith was given a match punishment and shot out from the diversion. The six-amusement suspension implies that Keith will miss the Blackhawks' last five recreations of the customary season, incorporating Friday's diversion in Winnipeg, and additionally Game 1 of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs where the Blackhawks will probably play either the Dallas Stars or St. Louis Blues. Here is the NHL's clarification.
It is the second time in his career he has been suspended for a play just like this after earning a one-game suspension during the 2013 playoffs for high-sticking Los Angeles Kings forward Jeff Carter. He will lose $148,883.35 in salary as a result of the suspension.
U.S. Soccer, the overseeing body for the game in America, pays the individuals from the men's and ladies' national groups who speak to the United States in worldwide rivalries. The men's group has verifiably been average. The ladies' group has been a quadrennial marvel, winning world and Olympic titles and conveying a great part of the nation to a stop simultaneously. Refering to this divergence, and also rising income numbers, five players on the ladies' group documented a government dissension Wednesday, charging U.S. Soccer of pay separation since, they said, they earned as meager as 40 percent of what players on the United States men's national group earned even as they walked to the group's third World Cup title a year ago. The five players, a percentage of the world's most conspicuous ladies' competitors, said they were being bamboozled on everything from rewards to appearance expenses to per diems. The case, submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the government office that upholds social liberties laws against working environment segregation, is the most recent front in the spreading level headed discussion over equivalent treatment of female competitors. A tennis competition chief was compelled to leave as of late in the wake of saying that female players "ride on the coattails of the men," and the N.C.A.A. has drawn investigation for the money related differences between the men's and ladies' ball competitions. "The numbers represent themselves," said goalkeeper Hope Solo, one of the players to sign the grumbling. "We are the best on the planet, have three World Cup titles, four Olympic titles." Solo said the men's players "get paid more to simply appear than we get paid to win significant titles." Solo was joined in the grievance by the co-chiefs Carli Lloyd and Becky Sauerbrunn, forward Alex Morgan and midfielder Megan Rapinoe. U.S. Soccer authorities pushed back mightily on the players' cases in a telephone call Thursday night, refering to assumes that the organization said demonstrated the men's national group delivered income and participation about twofold that of the ladies' group, and TV evaluations that were "a different" of what the ladies draw in, as per Sunil Gulati, the U.S. Soccer president. An organization representative, Neil Buethe, called a portion of the income figures in the players' objection "incorrect, deluding or both." In an announcement discharged before Thursday, U.S. Soccer described the part the alliance has played in the development of ladies' soccer, including first experience with the Olympic Games and in giving full-time compensations to top players. It said it was willing to examine remuneration as a component of proceeding with talks over another aggregate bartering understanding. Keep perusing the fundamental story RELATED COVERAGE Tim Howard Says Women's Team Should Fight for Rights MARCH 31, 2016 Games OF THE TIMES On Artificial Turf Issue, U.S. Ladies Dig In finally DEC. 8, 2015 Unwind, U.S. Soccer Fans. Making the World Cup Shouldn't Be a Problem. Walk 30, 2016 FROM OUR ADVERTISERS Be that as it may, in connecting their pay to the men's pay, the ladies' players put U.S. Soccer in a troublesome position. The organization has aggregate haggling concurrences with both groups, yet the monetary terms vary generally.
A men's player, for instance, gets $5,000 for a misfortune in a well disposed match however as much as $17,625 for a win against a top adversary. A ladies' player gets $1,350 for a comparable match, however just if the United States wins; ladies' players get no rewards for misfortunes or ties. Open doors for ladies to take an interest in games have expanded enormously in the over 40 years since the entry of the sexual orientation value enactment known as Title IX. Be that as it may, sports authorities keep on battling with matters of remuneration. It has been contended that men's games, and their players, merit a budgetary edge since they draw greater group and create significantly more cash in ticket deals and corporate sponsorships. That is the situation for U.S. Soccer's national groups, the alliance said Thursday. In any case, that is not valid for each game. Ladies' figure skating, for occasion, has frequently drawn higher TV evaluations and greater group than men's figure skating. In their protest, the five players refered to late U.S. Soccer money related reports as confirmation that they have turned into the league's primary financial motor even as, they said, they regularly earned just half as much — or less — than their male partners. In the meantime, the players said, they surpassed income projections by as much as $16 million in 2015, when their World Cup triumph set TV viewership records and a nine-amusement triumph visit in pressed stadiums delivered record entryway receipts and participation figures. U.S. Soccer authorities questioned those figures, contending that the ladies and their legal counselor, Jeffrey Kessler, singled out a phenomenally fruitful year to reach wide determinations. Michael LeRoy, who shows aggregate haggling and games at the University of Illinois, said that economic situations between the men's and ladies' games are unfathomably diverse. LeRoy indicated a prominent case brought by Marianne Stanley, the ladies' ball mentor at the University of Southern California in the mid 1990s, who contended she ought to be paid at a level equivalent to the men's mentor. Her legitimate exertion was unsuccessful. "They need to demonstrate balance of work and economic situations, and it's such an inflexible legitimate prerequisite," LeRoy said of the ladies' soccer players.
While ladies have frequently been rejected in global soccer — the men's World Cup started in 1930 and the ladies' not until 1991 — they have turned into the game's standard-bearers in the United States. The ladies' group has given the kind of rehashed achievement that has stayed tricky for the American men. Not very far in the past, a lady, Mia Hamm, might have been the best-known soccer player in the nation.
