Sunday, May 11, 2008

FC Dallas 1, Real Salt Lake 2 (game stats and notes only)

By Pegasus News wire

GAME 7 – May 10, 2008

FC DALLAS 1, REAL SALT LAKE 2

Rice-Eccles Stadium – Salt Lake City, Utah

Scoring:

RSL -- Javier Morales 1 (unassisted) 28

DAL -- Kenny Cooper 5 (Andre Rocha 3) 56

RSL -- Kyle Beckerman 3 (Andy Williams 1) 73

FC DALLAS (3-4-3): Dario Sala, Adrian Serioux (Aaron Pitchkolan 71), Duilio Davino, Drew Moor, Juan Toja, Pablo Ricchetti, Marcelo Saragosa (Ricardinho 77), Andre Rocha (Dominic Oduro 84), Arturo Alvarez, Kenny Cooper, Abe Thompson.

Subs Not Used: Mike Grazcyk (GK), Bobby Rhine, Dax McCarty.

Shots – 16; Shots on Goal – 5; Total Saves – 5; Fouls – 11; Offsides – 3; Corner Kicks – 6

REAL SALT LAKE: Nick Rimando, Jamison Olave (Andy Williams 40), Matias Mantilla, Nat Borchers, Tony Beltran, Kyle Beckerman, Dema Kovalenko, Javier Morales (Kenny Cutler 57), Chris Wingert, Fabian Espindola (Robbie Findley 80), Kenny Deuchar.

Subs Not Used: Chris Seitz, David Horst, Dustin Kirby, Yura Movsisyan.

Shots – 15; Shots on Goal – 7; Total Saves – 4; Fouls – 18; Offsides – 4; Corner Kicks – 8

Misconduct Summary:

RSL -- Dema Kovalenko (caution; Reckless Foul) 32

DAL -- Drew Moor (caution; Reckless Foul) 59

NOTES:

FC Dallas is now 2-2-3, 9 points on the season. With losses by Los Angeles and Colorado tonight, FCD remains in a first place tie with Colorado in the Western Conference.

Dallas is now 8-3-1 all-time versus Salt Lake.

This was Dallas’ first loss on the road this season (1-1-2)...also first loss to a Western Conference opponent (1-1-3).

Tonight was the first time ever that Dallas has lost a game in which Kenny Cooper scored a goal. FCD is now 15-1-3 all-time when Cooper scores.

Cooper’s fifth goal of the season ties him with Columbus’ Robbie Rogers for second-most in the League behind LA’s Landon Donovan (eight goals). It also surpassed Cooper’s goal total of 2007 (four), when a broken leg caused him to miss more than half the season.

This was Cooper’s 20th career regular season goal, making him the eighth player in team history to score at least 20 goals, and third fastest to reach the mark (in 52 games).

The goal snapped a streak of 236 minutes since the last Dallas tally, an 80th minute goal by Abe Thompson on April 20 in a 2-0 win at Chivas USA.

RSL’s 28th minute goal snapped an individual streak for FCD defensive midfielder Marcelo Saragosa – it was the first time this year the opponent scored while Saragosa was on the field. The Brazilian had played 353 consecutive minutes this season without the opposition scoring, which was by far the longest such streak by a field player in MLS this season. New England’s Chase Hilgenbrink is second at 168 minutes.

This was the first game this season in which Dallas trailed at the half.

Duilio Davino, Dario Sala, Andre Rocha, and Cooper are the only players to start and play in all seven games this season. Sala and Davino are the only ones to play every minute of every game. Dax McCarty and Blake Wagner had played in the first six games, but did not play today (coaches decision).

Today’s attendance was 12,173.

FC Dallas returns home to host the Los Angeles Galaxy on Sunday, May 18 at 2 p.m. CT at Pizza Hut Park.

Steve Morrow on the game: “It was very frustrating for us. We know it’s a difficult place for us to come and play, but we got ourselves back in the game after not playing too well in the first half. We were one nil down to a very scrappy, unlucky goal that could have been prevented. Then we got ourselves back in the game, and we should have pushed forward from then and didn’t. We still had our chances to tie the game and we didn’t. So again, it’s a frustrating loss, a disappointing one. The team will pick themselves up and get ready for the next one.”

Source: FC Dallas Communications

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