FOXBOROUGH, Mass. Chris Pontius scored late in the game to hand the New England Revolution its first home loss of the Season on Saturday afternoon at Gillette Staduim.
New England Revolution was playing without its suspended captain Shalrie Joseph for the first time this season.
New England’s newly acquired Columbian Forward Jose Moreno scored the first goal of the game early in the contest when he received a beautiful cross from teammate Saër Sène from the left wing. Thirteen minutes later, Maicon Santos scored for the visitor from a corner kick by Nick DeLeon assisted by Dwayne Rosario’s marvelous bicycle kick.
The game would remain tied until the 82nd minute when Chris Pontius scored from the left wing to win it for DC united 2-1.
After the game, the Frenchman Saër Sène told haititempo.com that he’s getting acquainted to playing next Jose Moreno who started his first MLS game and also scored the lone goal for the local side. Saër admitts that there are communication issue at times between the two strikers because he speaks french while Moreno speaks Spanish. However, he was very confident they could provide positive results with more playing time together.
Scoring Summary:
NE: Jose Moreno (Saër Sène, Lee Nguyen) 6
D.C.: Maicon Santos (Dwayne De Rosario, Nick DeLeon) 19
D.C.: Chris Pontius (Nick DeLeon) 82
New England Revolution: Matt Reis ©, Chris Tierney, A.J. Soares, Stephen McCarthy, Kevin Alston (Fernando Cardenas 86), Ryan Guy, Kelyn Rowe, Clyde Simms, Lee Nguyen (Benny Feilhaber 55), Jose Moreno (Bjorn Runstrom 79), Saër Sène
Substitutes Not Used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Darrius Barnes, John Lozano, Alec Purdie
STATS: Shots 20, Shots on Target 7, Corner Kicks 6, Saves 5, Fouls 10, Offsides 1, Passes Completed (percentage) 348 (67.8%), Possession 48.1%
D.C. United: Joe Willis, Daniel Woolard, Dejan Jakovic (Chris Korb 59), Brandon McDonald, Robbie Russell, Perry Kitchen, Nick DeLeon, Danny Cruz, Maicon Santos (Chris Pontius 79), Hamdi Salihi (Josh Wolff 65), Dwayne De Rosario ©
Substitutes Not Used: Bill Hamid, Branko Boskovic, Stephen King, Andy Najar
STATS: Shots 22, Shots on Target 7, Corner Kicks 10, Saves 6, Fouls 11, Offsides 3, Passes Completed (percentage) 385 (69.4%), Possession 51.9%
Team Records
New England Revolution: 2-4-0 (6 pts.)
D.C. United: 2-2-2 (8 pts.)
Other MLS Results:
Philadelphia Union 1 – 0 Columbus Crew
Seattle Sounders FC 1 – 0 Colorado Rapids
Toronto FC 0 – 1 Chivas USA
New York Red Bulls 2 – 2 San Jose Earthquakes
Sporting Kansas City 1 – 0 Real Salt Lake
FC Dallas 2 – 1 Impact de Montréal
Portland Timbers 1 – 3 Los Angeles Galaxy
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