September 19, 2016

WEEKEND WRAP: Friday/Saturday/Sunday Features Goals (11) and Assists (5)


Sorry a little late with the wrap this week. Here we go, not a bad weekend, some exciting stuff in Germany's Bundesliga, as Pulisic, Johnson and Johannsson all feature in their games. Game winning goals for Shane O'Neill, Omar Castro, Harrison Hanley and Jakeem Johnson for their teams. OK I gotta do the Bundesliga bit, Christian Pulisic is amazing every one although his position as a starter is still not guaranteed, a goal and 2 assists should create a circumstance where leaving him on the bench becomes more difficult. Fabian Johnson and Aaron Johannsson faced off in a cracking game  at M;Gladbach, both players had assists, but the game also saw Aaron receive a straight red (for descent) reports on Monday am has Aaron saying that the referee mis-heard his comment - well I guess we will see how that plays out. Also in Germany, in the U19's McKinzie Gaines had himself a game for Wolfsburg U19's scoring twice and getting an assist. Unusual for American goalkeepers, no shut out's this weekend. Finally we are still waiting for Matt Miazga to get on the field at Vitesse and two players surprisingly didn't get on the pitch this weekend, DeAndre Yedlin at Newcastle and Lynden Gooch at Sunderland, BTW both of the teams lost. OK to the list, as is normal now, the short version is directly below, the long version below that;

Here's the short version;

GOALS

Shawn Parker (Germany)
Shane O'Neill (Netherlands)
Royal Fennell (Germany)
McKinzie Gaines x2 (Germany)
Christian Pulisic (Germany)
Omar Castro (Germany)
Kevin Dzierzawski (Scotland)
Aaron Schoenfeld (Israel)
Harrison Hanley (Iceland)
Jakeem Johnson (Finland)

ASSISTS

McKinzie Gaines (Germany)
Christian Pulisic x2 (Germany)
Fabian Johnson (Germany)
Aron Jóhannsson (Germany)

And here's the long version;

FRIDAY

In Finland Veikkausliga, Kemi and Christian Eissele (6) lost 3 - 1 in their away game at HIFK (HIFK are fighting possible relegation)


GK Craig Hill was on the bench (he is KuPS backup keeper) as his team fought for a 1 - 1 draw at Lahti (KuPS are sitting in 5th place , 1 point out of 3rd and a Europa League spot)


Will John entered the game at minute 58, and helped Rovaniemi (RoPS) win 1 - 0 against relegation bound PK-35. RoPS win was very important moving them into the leagues 3rd spot, in what looks like a battle that will go down to the wire for the final Europa League spot. The gap between 3rd and 6th is 1 point and the loss of any points could be fatal for participation in next seasons European contest.


A Goal-Fest at Bochum, Russel Canouse's (in 18/DNP) team exchanged goals freely with Nurnberg and Shawn Parker (27), who Scored their 4th goal, and picked up a yellow, in a 5 - 4 loss at Bochum in 2Liga


Marc Heider, who played for the opposition for many years, went 90 as Osnabruck visited Kiel and came away with a 0 - 1 win, which must satisfy Marc, and make Osnabruck happy as they move into a tie for the top spot in 3Liga.


Brandon Hines-Ike came off the bench late in a fierce 3 - 3 draw between his team Orebro and Sundsvall in Sweden's Allsvenskan. The draw did not help Orebro keep pace with the rest of the league leaders as they are now tied 4th, but 5 points adrift of a Euro spot


Sirius still dominate Sweden's Superettan, today Patrick Hopkins went 90 as his team beat Varnamo 2 - 0 extending their lead at the top of the league to 7 points


In France Ligue 2, Jordan Siebatcheu (64) and Reims held Sochaux to a 1 - 1 draw to get an away point and a shared first place in the league. Difficult to know if this is 2 points lost or 1 gained?


GK Quentin Westberg (90) was on the losing side today as Tours fell 1 - 3 to Nimes in Ligue 2 as they drop into the relegation zone


Rubio Rubin was an unused sub as Utrecht sunk deeper and continued there poor form losing 1 - 5 at home to Groningen (Desevio Payne is still not fit to play)


In Erste Divisie Shane O'Neill came off the bench at minute 75 and Scored the winner (Breda's 3rd) in NAC Breda's 2 - 4 win over Waalwijk and move into a 3-way tie for 2nd place and promotion.


In Germany's Regionalliga (Nordost) RB Leipzig's Ken Gipson (90) and USMNT Terence Boyd (90) were lucky to get a 1 - 1 draw at Babelsberg after scoring 2 minutes into extra time.


Julian Ceesay (90) and FC Amberg visited Oscar Ortiz (90) and SC Feucht in a goal-fest that had SC Feucht win 4 - 3 in Oberliga (Bayern Nord)


Charlie Rugg (28) would probably preferred to stay on the bench for Pirmisans as they were dismantled by Hoffenheim II 6 - 0 in Regionalliga (Sudwest)


In Ireland's Premier League Don Cowan (90 +1) visited Finn Harps and completed their mission 0 - 1 on an early (17) goal. This is Longford's first win since March, that's 24 games ago. Draw's have kept them alive but the team above them is on 19 points - 6 above Longford - looks like the drop for Longford and Don Cowan


SATURDAY


Andrew Wooten (66) and Sandhausen visited Braunschweig in Germany's 2Liga and lost 2 - 1 to the league leaders - who are yet to lose this season 5 for 5


Jerome Kiesewetter only played the final 8 minutes as Dusseldorf lost their first game of the season at Heidenheim in 2LIga


Mitchel Lopez went 90, as high flying BK-46 lost 2 - 0 at FC Espoo in Finland's Kakkonen (Group B)


Lawrence Smith went 90 and Chris Corcoran 13 as GBK hosted TP-47 and won without much trouble 3 - 0 in Finland Kakkonen (Group C) This is GBK's 3rd straight win


Devonte Parker (3), came on late for Mainz II in Germany's 3Liga as they fell 2 - 1 at Bremen II


Royal Fennell (90) Scored as Hallescher had to come back in the 2nd half after going down 0 - 1 to Shawn Barry (90) and FSV Frankfurt in 3Liga where the final result was a 1 - 1 draw - FSV has yet to win this season.


Jann George went 77, picked up a yellow as Regensberg had their handsful with Fortuna Koln, that was drawn on a 90+4 goal by Regensburg as they hold on at home 2 - 2


GK David Yelldell was an unused sub for Sonnenhof as they drew 2 - 2 with Aalen in 3Liga


Brian Span (90) as Mariehamn visited SJK in Finland's Veikkausliiga in a game that had more importance to Mariehamn as they battle for top spot in the league and either a Champions League or Europa League. Today they failed to gain any points losing this one 1 - 0 - that's 2 losses in the last 3 games.


McKinzie Gaines (68) Scored twice and had an Assist as Wolfburg's U19 squad visited JFV Nordwest in Junior Bundesliga (Nordwest) That's 5 goals in 3 games for McKinzie


Alassane Kane went 90 for Bayern Hof as they fall at home 1 - 2 to Greuther Furth II in Regionalliga (Bayern)


Julian Green was an unused sub for Bayern and Alfredo Morales went 63 minutes for Ingolstadt in a 3 - 1 home victory for Bayern


In what is the biggest US Player story of the day, Christian Pulisic (90) Scored and had 2 Assists as Dortmund throttled Darmstadt 6 - 0. Christian receives MOTM from most sites and from what I saw of the game he deserved it - is it time to move from hype to belief??


Timothy Chandler (90 + yellow) had himself a day for Frankfurt, giving up an 87th minute PK (that Chicharito missed) to Leverkusen that would have tied the game - but with the miss Frankfurt held on to win 2 - 1


RB Leipzig were all over Bobby Wood (83 + yellow) and Hamburg as they handed them a painful home defeat 0 - 4. For those wondering Terence Boyd and Ken Gipson played on Friday for the RBL reserves


In England's Championship, Danny Williams (90 + yellow) and Reading visited Barnsley and came away with all 3 points in a 1 - 2 win


DeAndre Yedlin watched Newcastle fall 0 - 2 at home to Wolves in a game that saw Newcastle give up an OG and suffer a Red Card - Benitez needs Yedlin (IMHO)


Eric Lichaj (90) and Nottingham fell 1 - 2 at home to Norwich,  as they, Norwich battles to return to the EPL


Gboly Ariyibi went 90 in Chesterfield's convincing 3 - 0 win over Northampton in England League 1


Duane Holmes played the first half as Scunthorpe visited Shrewsbury and took all 3 points in a 0 - 1 win. Scunthorpe are now on top of the standings with a game in-hand


GK Paul Rachubka took his normal spot on the bench, as back-up, and watched as his team Bury beat host Swindon 1 - 2 in England League 1


Not a good day for GK Brendan Moore as Torquay visited Boreham Wood and lost 2 - 0 in England's National League


Jon-Paul Pittman (90) started for Harrogate as they visited Bridlington in the 2nd (Qualifying) round of the FA Cup. the game ended 1 - 1 with a replay in the week - but it shows if you don't take your opposition seriously you can be in for a shock


Will Daniels went 90 for Grindavik as they visited Akureyri in Iceland Inkasso-deildin and fell 2 - 1 after leading for most of the match. Akureyri are running away with the league at this point, unbeaten in their last 7


JC Mack went 90 for Selfoss as they visited GK Will Dieterich and Haukar in a game that end in a 1 - 1 draw


Johnatan Lama (21) and Huginn continue their disappointing season with a 0 - 4 loss to Kopavogur. Huginn are just 3 points above the drop zone and really need some points and some luck


Omar Castro Scored Braunschweig II's first (and winning) goal as they visited Lupo Martini Wolfsburg and came away 0 - 2 winners


Matt Nigro (90) and Vestri just didn't have it today as they are well beaten at Grotta 4 - 0 in Iceland Division 2


Jannik Eckenrode (90) and Danial Kuczynski (84) were on the losing side as Aegir fell 4 - 2 at Volsungur in Iceland Division 2


In Scotland's Premier League Bjorn Johnsen (72) got his first start and Perry Kitchen went 90 as Hearts fall 1 - 0 at St Johnstone as both teams now share 2nd place in the league.


Kevin Dzierzawski gave Peterhead a 0 - 2 lead after he Scored at Stenhousemuir. Unfortunately Peterhead could not hold the lead and ended having to be satisfied with a 2 - 2 draw, in Scotland's Championship


Andrew Stadler joined the action in the 60th minute, but could not help his team Ostersunds as they are beaten 2 - 0 at Kalmar after giving up 2 goals in 2 minutes, in Sweden;s Allsvenskan


GK Josh Wicks (90) and AFC hit a bump in the road at GAIS in the Superettan as they drew 1 - 1 - AFC are still in the hunt for promotion, but are a point off automatic promotion spot and may need to play a play-off to get there


GK Jeff Gal and Stephen Golz found themselves on the losing side as Lidkopings lost their home game 1 - 2 to Rynninge IK in Sweden's Division 2 (Norra Gotaland)


A game leading Score from Aaron Schoenfeld did not hold up as H Tel Aviv gave up 3 goals in a 3 - 3 draw with Shmona, in Israel's Ligat ha'Al


Joel Sonora went 81 for Stuttgart II as they win 1 - 2 at Trier in Regionalliga (Sudwest)


Eric Friedlander was an unused sub in Ansbach's 4 - 0 win over Frohnlach in Oberliga (Bayern Nord)


GK Bakary Sanyang let 3 in and his team Pfeddersheim lost 1 - 3 to Schott Mainz in Oberliga (Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar)


Jordan Tyler (90) and Hottur were totally embarrassed by Afturelding 7 - 2 in Iceland Division 2 as Hottur's season is skidding out of control


Fabian Johnson (85) had an Assist for M' Gladbach as they hosted Aron Jóhannsson (36 + Assist + RED card) As M' Gladbach dominates in first half, with 4 goals - the game ended 4-1. Evidently the Iceman melted down and was sent off for dissent


GK Ethan Horvath and Molde fall 1 - 0 at Viking in Norway's Tippeligaen. Josh Gatt was in the 18, but did not play. Molde are slowly falling out of contention for the final Europa League spot.


Hunter Gorskie (in 18/DNP) as Legnica failed to hold on to a 2 goal lead at home to Katowice in a game that ended 2 - 2 in Poland Division 1


GK Danny Rogers had a solid outing as Falkirk, who have now won 3 straight, defeated Dundee United 3 - 1 in Scotland's Championship. Falkirk now tied for 3rd place


The new normal for Brad Guzan, in 18/DNP. as Middlesborough were dismantled by Everton 3 - 1 in the English Premier League


Johnathan Spector (90) as Birmingham beats Sheffield Wednesday 2 - 1 in the English Championship putting them into the top 6 (tied 3rd with 2 other teams) Good result for Birmingham


Harrison Hanley (90+5) Scored Njardvik's only goal as they draw 1 - 1 with visitors KF in Iceland Division 2. Njardvik had trailed 0 - 1 for most of the game, until Harrison's goal saved the point


Robbie Kristo played in the Osnabruck Oberliga squad today going 70 minutes in their 1 - 1 draw at Cloppenburg


Louis Bennett III is still trying to get his debut in, as he was in 18 for the 3rd week in a row, but DNP for Anorthosis in Cyprus First Division. Today they drew 2 - 2 with Zakakiou. Anorthosis have yet to lose this (early) season and sit in 6th spot.


Matt Miazga (in 18/DNP) sits out another game at Vitesse as they win 2 - 0 over GA Eagles in the Eredivisie


SUNDAY


GK Daniel Schmidt (90) and Yamaga are still on pace for promotion despite a 'blip' today in a 1 - 1 draw at Kusatsu. Sitting in 2nd place of Japan's J-League 2 and with teams closing in on them, every point is critical


In Finland, Jakeem Johnson Scored the winning goal for PEPO as the hosted MPS in Kakkonen (Group A) and won 2 - 1. At my reckoning that's 14 Goals in 11 Games for Jakeem


In (Group C) Kakkonen, Jossimer Sanchez went 90 as Narpes Kraft beat GK Scott Angevine and YPA 3 - 1 in a mid-table battle. YPA has now lost 3 straight


In Finland's Ykkonen, Mike Banner was an unused sub as KPV were held to a goalless draw by Oulu. Only 6 points separates #5 KPV from the #1 spot held by JJK


In Germany Junior Bundesliga (Sud) Toni Suddoth went 90 as Stuttgart U19 visited cross-town Stuttgart Kickers in a game that ended 1 - 1, on a 90th minute Kickers goal


In Junior Bundesliga (West) Haji Wright was subbed out at 90 minutes and Weston Mckennie went 90 and picked up a yellow as Schalke U19 beat Dortmund U19 2 - 1


In Denmark Division 1, Babajide Ogunbiy (90 + Yellow) and Hobro were well beaten, as they visited Fremad Amager, 4 - 1. Hobro has slipped a little, down to 4th place


In Sweden's Allsvenskan, GK Matt Pyzdrowski had a rare appearance as Helsingborg fell 1 - 2 at home to #1 Norrkoping. As it stands, Helsingborg will have to play a Rel/Pro play-off to stay in Sweden's top flight


The least said the better about Stoke and Geoff Cameron, now firmly at the bottom of the EPL and based on performances so far this season, likely to stay there. Today's happy opponent was Crystal Palace who whipped Stoke 4 - 1


George Fochive (90 + yellow) and Viborg visited #1 Brondby in Denmark SuperLiga and came away with all 3 points in a 1 - 2 win, on an 81st minute OG


Dallas Aminzadeh came off the bench at 72minutes to help Oldenburg in their 3 - 0 win over Egestorf-Langreder in Germany's Regionalliga (Nord) Oldenburg played most of the 2nd half with 10 men


Paul Torres (90 + yellow) as Assyriska take on IK Frej in Sweden Superettan in a game that ended goalless


Jochen Graf was an unused sub as Oskarhamns falls 3 - 1 to Oddevold in Sweden Division 1


Really surprised that Lynden Gooch was an unused sub as Sunderland visited Tottenham in the EPL and lost 1 - 0


Daniel Stephens went 90 as GrIFK were beaten at home 1 - 2 by TPS Turku in Finland's Ykkonen


Gabriel Wirtz was an unused sub (1st game back after injury) as Jazz Pori played to a 1 - 1 draw with KTP and Isaac Kannah (90) - Both teams are in the relegation zone


Conor O'Brien (90) and Horsens lost ground today as they fell 0 - 2 to #1 FC Copenhagen in Denmark Superliga


GK Alex Horwath (90) and #2 Brann visited Bodo/Glimt in Norway's Tippeligaen and came away with a 1 - 3 win that keeps pace at the top of a very tight league battle


Also in Tippeligaen Stabaek with Cole Grossman (90) visited Odd and won 0 - 1 Stabaek are now 2 points away from escaping the relegation zone


When the league top team meets the bottom team the out-come is pretty much decided before a kick of the ball, so no surprise that Start and Alex De John (90) were defeated at #1 Rosenborg 2 - 0 in Norway's Tippeligaen (Rosenborg are 18 points clear at the top, Start are bottom and 50 points behind them)

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