April 30, 2016

WEEKEND WRAP: Sunday 4/30/2016 Features a Hat-trick, End-of-Season Drama

Interesting day today. The battles for promotion/relegation are really down to the wire. A few leagues are done for the season, with some into (or going into) there 2nd season (Play-Offs) to determine promotion, relegation, European spots for next season. 

Today we had a Hat-Trick in Sweden from Eddy Prugh and goals in Germany (Royal Fennell) and Israel (Aaron Schoenfeld). Goalkeeper Ethan Horvath had a shut-out, and Tim Howard started for Everton (Coach Roberto Martinez had announced that Tim would see out his time at Everton as the starter)
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USMNT Perry Kitchen started and played 90, as Hearts were overpowered 1 - 3 by Celtic in Scotland's Premier League, in what was a meaningless game for both teams (top 3 qualify for Europe, #1 Celtic - UCL #3 Heart's - Europa)

USMNT Alejandro Bedoya started and went 90 as Nantes won 1 - 0 over Nice in France Ligue 1

Devante Parker came of the bench and played 17 minutes in Mainz II's 3 - 2 loss at Aalen in Germany's 3Liga

Royal Fennell, started, went 90, and Scored the winning goal for Wurzburger as they visited Cottbus and grabbed 3 points in a 1 - 2 win - Wurzburger, who have won 4 of their last 5 are in the promotion play-off spot in Germany 3Liga, with 2 games left

Marc Heider, started on the bench, joining the action at 60 minutes, and picked up a late yellow card as Kiel beat Stuttgart II 1 - 0, USYNT Joel Sonora dressed, but did not play for Stuttgart II

Ken Gipson started and went 63 minutes in RB Leipzig II 2 - 1 win over Schonberg in Regionalliga Nordost

Charlie Rugg (26) and Trier failed to hold off USYNT Caleb Stanko (90 & yellow card) and Freiburg II in a 1 - 2 Freiburg win in Regionalliga Sudwest. Yup! Caleb was in the 18 for Freiburg's senior squad yesterday.

Aaron Valentini got 15 minutes in for Jena II as they thumped Cottbus II 4 - 0 in Oberliga NOFV Sud

Charlie Butte started 90 as Burgbrohl beat Rochl. Volklingen 1 - 0 in Oberliga Pfalz/Saar

Eddie Prugh started, went 90, picked up a yellow card and SCORED A HAT-TRICK for Bodens BK as they beat Ange IF 3 - 5 in Sweden's Division 2 (Norrland) The game also saw Chase Miller go the full 90

Bryan Gaul started and went 90 for Bahlinger in their 1 - 3 loss to Homberg in Regionalliga Sudwest

Ryan Malone got 6 minutes on the pitch today as #6 Magdeburg thrashed #5 Sonnenhof 4 - 0

Douglas Bentley, started and went 90 as AlbinoLeffe fell 1 - 2 to Lumezzane in Italy's Lega Pro (Group A)

GK Paul Rachubka, was in 18 (DNP) as Bolton won 1 - 0 over Hull in the English Championship

USMNT Christian Pulisic, in 18 (DNP) as Dortmund thumped Wolfsburg 5 - 1 in Bundesliga

USMNT Alfredo Morales started and went 90 as Ingolstadt visited Hoffenheim and lost 2 - 1

Babajide Ogunbiyi, started went 90 in Hobro's 1 - 2 home loss to Sondrjyske, in Denmark Superliga

As promised by coach Martinez, USMNT GK Tim Howard started and went 90 as Everton beat Bournemouth 2 - 1 in the EPL. Martinez had said that Tim would see out his career at Everton by playing in this seasons final games.

USMNT Geoff Cameron and Stoke looked like they had the win over USMNT DeAndre Yedlin and Sunderland, until 90+4 when Sunderland scored (PK) creating a 1 - 1 draw, and some hope to Sunderland who a battling to avoid relegation

USMNT Brad Guzan was in 18 (DNP) as Aston Villa suffer another embarrassing loss ( the gave up 2 goals 90th and 90 +3 ) 3 - 2 at Watford

Fulham and USMNT Tim Ream (90) and USMNT Emerson Hyndman (25) were easy meat for Brentford as Fulham fall 3 - 0 in the English Championship

USMNT Eric Lichaj, started went 90 and picked up a yellow card, as Nottingham drew 1 - 1 at home with Wolves

USMNT Danny Williams was back for Reading, giving a solid 90 minutes for his team before they gave up an ET goal and fell 1 - 2 to Preston

Adam Henley was in the 18 (DNP) for Blackburn as the visited Rotherham and came away with the win 0 - 1

USYNT Gboly Ariyibi went into ET before being subbed out in a convincing 3 - 0 Chesterfield win over Bury in England's League 1

Zak Whitbread (90) and Shrewsbury made a real fight of it after falling 0 - 3 behind visitors Peterborough, tieing the game at 3 - 3 in the 89th minute, before succumbing to a 90+4 goal from the visitors and falling 3 - 4

USYNT Shane O'Neill in 18 (DNP) and Cambridge ended their game with Plymouth at 2 - 2. Cambridge played fairly well this season but just miss out on a promotion playoff spot.

Kevin Dzierzawski left the game between #3 Peterhead and #1 Dunfermline in Scotland's League One very early (20). I haven't seen the game report yet, but generally an early exit like this is an injury, more when I find out. Peterhead went on to lose the game 1 - 0. Peterhead have really collapsed losing their last 5 games, which may be the result of an early qualification for promotional play-off spot, we'll have to wait and see if they can up their game.

USYNT Romain Gall, started and went 90 in Nykopings 0 - 0 draw with Forward in Sweden Division 1 (Norra)

USYNT Kristian Scott started and went 90 minutes in Nuneaton's 3 - 0 win over Hednesford Town in Vanarama National League North, Nuneaton just missed out on the promotional play-offs, they had been hoping that 2 of the teams above stumbled today - but it was not to be. (Note: Nuneaton had been charged -3 points for disciplinary - with the 3 points they would have ended 3rd in the league)

USMNT GK Ethan Horvath kept a clean sheet, and Molde scored at 90 +3 to beat Aalesund 1 - 0 a result that keeps Molde in 2nd place

GK Brendan Moore who has been so spectacular while on loan to Torquay had a horrid last day of the season. Torquay visited Guiseley and lost 4 - 3, still because of Brendan's heroics Torquay avoided relegation this season. Brendan will return to Fleetwood (we have GK Alek Gogic there as Back-up keeper) in League One today. Fleetwood are hoping to avoid the drop into League 2, we will have to see what happens next for Brendan. Brendan finished his spell at Torquay with 11 games, gave up 10 goals, had 6 shut-outs - not bad at all.

Jon-Paul Pittman started and went 90 for Grimsby as they tried to get back to winning ways, unfortunately a last day funk set in and Grimsby lost 1 - 0 at Tranmere. Next up for Grimsby will be a promotional play-off game. Lets hope they can get back to their early season form.


Aaron Schoenfeld started, went 90 and Scored for H. Tel Aviv as they held on for a 3 - 3 draw with H. Haifa in Israel. This was Aaron's 5th goal (5 starts / 11 appearances) since joining H Tel Aviv in February (pretty good acquisition) from the Columbus Crew.


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