Metros drill league-leading Fusion, 2:1
August 4, 2001
Mark Chung scored after an amazing run with 12 minutes left in the game to give the Metros their fourth win in five games, 2:1 over the league-leading Miami, whose hack tactics saw the team reduced to nine men by the end of the game. The win is Metros' second in two games against the Fusion.
Rodrigo Faria put the Metros on the board just three minutes into the game, taking an excellent pass from Adolfo Valencia and putting it past Nick Rimando, a sorry excuse for an all-star. The Metros controlled the flow of play from that point on, and went up one man, when Ivan McKinley was send off in the 36th minute for his second yellow card.
Miami, helpless for most of the first half, got themselves on the board early in the second. Preki chipped the ball over Tim Howard, who made his one mistake in the match by being out of position. With the game tied, the Metros once again took control. They mounted attack after attack, fueled by the return of Tab Ramos, who entered the game in the 56th minute. Then, in the 78th, Chung took a beautiful pass from Daniel Hernandez, dribbled downfield, and fired a shot past Rimando that gave the Metros the lead for good.
Miami's hacks came out again in the 85th, when Ian Bishop was shown red for a horrendous tackle of Ramos.
Lineup: Howard, Perez, Petke, Jolley, Hernandez, Walsh, Williams, Chung, Villegas, Faria, Valencia. Subs: Ramos, Semioli, Klinger.
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