Rapids hand Red Bulls first loss
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05/14/2007 -
East Rutherford, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Red Bull New Yorks second designated
player signing, Juan Pablo Angel, made his Major League Soccer regular debut
Sunday afternoon against the Colorado Rapids at Giants Stadium with little
fanfare - 7,802 were in attendance on Mother's Day.
Maybe just as important for the Red Bulls, however, was the fact the teams
first designated player signing - Claudio Reyna - and another one of their
bigger offseason acquisitions - goalkeeper Ronald Waterrues - missed the game
with injuries. Waterrues sprained his left ankle in a 3-3 tie at Real Salt Lake last weekend while Reyna injured his groin in training on Saturday.
The impact of those two players absences, especially Reynas, probably
outweighed the impact of Angels presence in a 1-0 loss to the Rapids, New
Yorks first loss of the season.
"I think it was a big loss for us," Angel said of missing Reyna. "It was a bit
unfortunate for him because he just pulled out yesterday and he is a big
influence for us, he is a big character, he is the captain. But we've got to
be able to play without him, without any other player, and do well."
"It was bad performance on our part," New York coach Bruce Arena said. "You
lose players in games, Its not an excuse, we were very poor. I think we got
outplayed in the first half just in terms of the effort aspect of the game. In
the second half, I thought our performance on the technical side was horrible.
Poor crossing, poor finishing, poor passing, which was the case for 90 minutes
of the game. Obviously we missed some of the players that were out, but most
games you don't have a complete lineup so there are no excuses our part. I
thought it was a poor performance."
Colorado moved into first place in the Western Conference with 11 points. It
got a goal from Nicolas "Nico" Hernandez in the 24th minute, which was all the
offense it would need.
"The good thing about this is we played well and got a victory on the road,"
Colorado coach Fernando Clavijo said. "We played good defense for 90 minutes.
We had a game plan that we executed with no mistakes. We scored when we had a
chance and then we closed it down."
On the goal, Kyle Beckerman intercepted the ball in the midfield and played a
long ball to Herculez Gomez on the left wing. Gomez raced down the sideline,
cut inside and found Nico with a square pass from about six yards out that he
made no mistake on. It was Nicos first goal of the season.
"I am excited because the team won, I admit it feels good to finally score a
goal though as well," Nico said through translator and teammate Roberto
Brown.
Hernandez had seven goals and six assists last season for Colorado, his first
in MLS.
"That is always a plus (for Nico to get a goal) but if it wasn't for him it
could have been Hercules (Gomez), Terry Cook, Roberto Brown, Kyle Beckerman or
somebody else," Clavijo said. "Thats what it is, we have a lot of guys who
can score goals. You can't just concentrate on shutting down one guy. We have
a team that works together to win games."
Colorado goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul - a Dakar, Senegal native who grew up in
the Bronx - took a lot of pleasure out of his second shutout of the season and
fourth of his career.
"There are so many more to come," Coundoul said of the cleansheet. "It is a
great feeling to come to New York were you grew up and have a shutout with a
lot of friends and family here watching me. It means a lot for me."
It also means a little extra on Mother's Day with his family in attendance.
"To me every day is Mother's Day, not only one day but it is great to give her
this present," Coundoul said. "Every time I go on the field I talk to both my
mom and dad and they say, 'Go ahead, we are right behind you.' Everyday for me
is Mother's Day and Father's Day, to me."
Coundoul, who made seven saves in the game, faced a couple early chances,
thwarting New York in the seventh minute by collecting the ball in front on an
on-rushing Angel, and doing the same about 10 minutes later. On the second
chance, Coundoul came out of the box to clear a ball and completely whiffed,
but collided with Angel, giving his defense a chance to clear.
"The defense was excellent, I don't have a ton of experience but all the guys
in front of me have tons of experience which makes me look like I have some
experience, too," Coundoul quipped.
Colorado had its first chance about 20 minutes in when forward Jovan Kirovski
crossed into the box to Gomez, but Waterrues's replacement, Jon Conway, made
the save for New York.
He wasn't so lucky on Colorados next chance, which he had to dig out of the
net.
After a mainly lackluster first half, New York came to life a little to start
the second half. Dema Kovalenko controlled the ball in the offensive third for
Red Bull before passing into the box to Dave van den Bergh, who served as
captain in Reynas absence. Van den Bergh then passed to Angel in the box, but
his resulting shot was cleared off the line by Rapids defender Dan Gargan.
"Not only the goalie has to make a save," Coundoul said. "Sometimes the
defense has to make a save. He covered me on that one, the next time I cover
him."
That is exactly what happened a little over 10 minutes later.
Red Bulls midfielder Clint Mathis broke down the left sideline, pulled up and
squared a pass off past a sprawling Gargan, but Coundoul got into position in
time to save Dane Richards shot.
"Certainly we got it together a little bit better in the second half," Arena
said. "We had those opportunities in the early part of the second half to even
the game up and make it more challenging for Colorado, but we weren't able to
even the game up and get the goal back and put them under pressure."
New York (3-1-2) will try to snap its two-game winless streak Saturday when it
hosts Columbus while Colorado (3-2-2) will look for more of the same, also on
Saturday, against Kansas City.
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