A double from the Uruguayan Facundo Torres and third goal from North American benji michel this Wednesday gave victory to orlando-city (3-0) in the grand final of US Open Cup in the view of Republic of Sacramento.
It was an unequal rivalry between a team from mls and another one at USL, something that hasn’t happened since 2008 when Charleston’s battery lost to him too DC United in the final of the tournament.
The success of orlando-city meaning the first title for a group of Florida since St. did it. Petersburg 33 years ago.
Great start to the match for both teams, very vertical and with the intention to step into the opposite area with a very high pace and intensity. create more risk Orlando City, noting the technical prowess of its players.
So came the first good chance of the meeting in the boots of the ex Penarol Facundo Torres, with a shot from the edge of the area with more than enough time to prepare for the passivity of the California defense. It deflected slightly over the crossbar.
Sacrament He also warned and in the twenty-first minute, that the Irish stole the ball Dan Casey, the play was put together from the middle of the field to find the Jamaican Maalique Fosterwhich is caracoleaba and defined as disturbing in Peruvian Pedro Gallese.
As the minutes passed, in the latter part of the first half, the rhythm of the game dropped, the game of both teams was more horizontal as opposed to what was seen before.
The locals suffered to take advantage and inaugurated the light, they even saw the title in danger on a very clear occasion for the Honduran Douglas Martinez, heading with subtlety and precision on the move to the far post. guessed his intentions Pedro Gallese and caught the ball.
What may have been the initial purpose of Sacramentwhich became the first objective of Orlando in the next action. Less than a minute passed Facundo Torres punished an unforgivable mistake by the California defense, with Conor Donovan and Dan Casey They compromised the ball in their own area and the Uruguayan took the opportunity to correct it with his left foot and adjust it to the vertical, this is the 75th minute.
just four minutes later benji michel resulted in a penalty in a new collective error by the visiting defence. Sam Casey the American was clearly overwhelmed and had no doubts about the referee’s decision.
took responsibility Facundo Torres from the penalty spot, completely fooling goalkeeper Daniel Vitiello. Double in the match, fourth goal in the competition and tenth of the season on his private account.
The Uruguayan was the third in a counter-attack led from the center of the field alone, and chose his shot against two better placed teammates. He struggled to find the hat-trick prioritizing individual actions. but he had no success to complete it.
Yes, the third one Orlando but I will sign it benji michel, a footballer who came on from the bench in the sixty-first minute, and was decisive. His performance was summed up with the help of the first goal, which caused the penalty of the second goal and, finally, he himself managed to carry out the third.
The 107th edition of the US Open Cup he stayed at Exploria Stadium in Orlando, with great relief that the champion team could celebrate in front of their fans.
The tremendous road followed by Sacramento to the last remains for history, eliminating up to three teams from higher categories such as San José Earthquakes, Los Angeles Galaxy and Sporting Kansas City.
In the success of orlando-city The two great motivations represented by the presence of the Sacramento Republic in this meeting were dissolved, on the one hand their claim to consider themselves an ‘MLS-sized’ team and on the other hand this pride is meant for the USL to ‘ steal the title from the major league , something that has not happened since 1999 when he lifted the Rochester Rhinos cup, a team owned by a footballer Jamie Vardy.
match sheets:
3. City of Orlando: Galician; Ruan (Smith, m.83), Antonio Carlos, Schlegel, Moutinho; Junior Urso (Perea, m.91), Araujo, Pereyra (Cartagena, m.91); Torres, Kara (Michel, m.61) and Angulo (Akindele, m.83).
0. Sacramento Republic: Vitiello; Casey, Donovan (Ross, d.88), Desmond; Gurr, LaGrassa (Cuello, m.78), Fernandes, Viader; Keko (Martínez, m.65), Foster (Archiméde, m.78) and López.
The objectives: 1-0, m.75: Facundo Torres. 2-0, m.80: Facundo Torres, from a penalty. 3-0, m.96: Benji Michel.
Referee: Ramy Touchan. He showed yellow cards to locals Antonio Carlos (m. 69) and Mauricio Pereyra (m. 91) and visitors Lee Desmond (m. 74), Luis Fernandes (m. 77) and Rodrigo López ( m. 79).
Incidents: The match corresponding to the US Open Cup final was played at Exploria Stadium in Orlando before nearly 25,000 spectators.
Source: La Verdad
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