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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Hackshaw helps Indy Eleven to USL win

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Nigel Simon
1519 days ago
20210524

NIGEL SI­MON

nigel.si­mon@guardian.co.tt

T&T de­fend­er Ne­veal Hack­shaw played the full 90 min­utes in help­ing In­dy Eleven to a 2-0 win over Sport­ing Kansas City II when the Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion con­tin­ued on Sat­ur­day night.

A pair of sec­ond-half goals by Jor­dan Hamil­ton and Manuel Artea­ga sent In­dy Eleven to a 2-0 vic­to­ry, their first at Michael A. Car­roll Sta­di­um this sea­son for their sec­ond win in three match­es this sea­son to go to fourth spot in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion with six points three be­hind lead­ers FC Tul­sa while At­lanta Unit­ed II and Louisville City FC are next with sev­en points each.

Na­tion­al de­fend­ers, Mekeil Williams and Je­lani Pe­ters both start­ed but could not pre­vent Pitts­burg River­hound from falling to a 1-0 loss ver­sus Char­lotte In­de­pen­dence.

De­spite be­ing re­duced to ten men as ear­ly as the 12th minute, Char­lotte got the lone item in the match from Irvin Par­ra and a gut­ty de­fen­sive dis­play for the win at High­mark Sta­di­um.

In an­oth­er USL match, T&T’s mid­field­er Shan­non Gomez and Sacra­men­to Re­pub­lic FC fell to a 1-0 de­feat against Or­ange Coun­ty SC at Cham­pi­onship Soc­cer Sta­di­um their first loss of the 2021 USL Cham­pi­onship sea­son.

<Pow­der's Re­al Salt Lake snatch­es MLS draw>

Na­tion­al de­fend­er Noah Pow­der was an un-used sub­sti­tute as Damir's Kreilach 86th-minute head­er lift­ed their Re­al Salt Lake to a 2-2 draw at FC Dal­las in a wet and wild af­fair at Toy­ota Sta­di­um on Sat­ur­day night.

Kreilach's late equal­iz­er can­celled out Ryan Holling­shead’s de­flect­ed strike for Dal­las two min­utes ear­li­er, dur­ing an evening where rain and slick con­di­tions chal­lenged the foot­ing of play­ers and the han­dling of goal­keep­ers on both sides.

Ru­bio Ru­bin added his team-lead­ing fourth goal of the sea­son ear­ly for Salt Lake.

David Ochoa made nine saves for the vis­i­tors, who have four points from two away trips this sea­son.

Fran­co Jara opened his 2021 ac­count from the penal­ty spot late in the first half for Dal­las, which now is 1-0-3 in four home games.

In­jured T&T mid­field­er Kevin Moli­no con­tin­ued his re­cov­ery while his Colum­bus Crew, the reign­ing MLS cham­pi­ons ral­lied past New York City FC 2-1 at Red Bull Sta­di­um in Har­ri­son, NJ thanks to a late brace from Lu­cas Ze­larayán

<Ear­ly strike downs De Leon’s Toron­to FC>

A 12th-minute head­ed goal from Tesho Akindele would be all Or­lan­do City SC need­ed in their East­ern Con­fer­ence matchup with Nick De Leon’s Toron­to FC at Ex­plo­ria Sta­di­um on Sat­ur­day, as the Li­ons rode the ear­ly tal­ly to a 1-0 vic­to­ry.

It was a more en­ter­tain­ing matchup than the fi­nal score­line might in­di­cate, as both sides had mul­ti­ple good chances that nar­row­ly missed, but the hosts ul­ti­mate­ly took all three points on the strength of Akindele's goal and some stal­wart goal­keep­ing from Pe­dro Gallese.

Or­lan­do shot out to a dream start in just 12 min­utes in through the even­tu­al game-win­ner from Akindele.

The vet­er­an for­ward made the most of some pin­point ser­vice from Sil­vester van der Wa­ter, who put a cross from the right flank on a plat­ter for Akindele to eas­i­ly head home a point-blank fin­ish.

USA-born De Leon, the son of ex-T&T leg­end Leroy de Leon was then in­tro­duced in the 55th minute by Toron­to to re­place Jonathan Os­o­rio, but it was Akindele who had an­oth­er chance for Or­lan­do in the 67th minute, this time set up by a per­fect through ball from Robin Jans­son, on­ly to be de­nied by Toron­to goal­keep­er Alex Bon.

Toron­to saw a po­ten­tial equal­iz­er thwart­ed by a goal-line clear­ance again in the 71st minute when sub­sti­tute Ja­cob Shaf­fel­burg sent in a shot from the left side with Gallese off his line, but Ro­dri­go Schlegel would clear away the threat.

The Reds con­tin­ued to press for a lev­eller and put on a flur­ry of late pres­sure, cul­mi­nat­ing on a wild last se­quence of the match when Gallese made a pair of high­light-reel saves to pre­serve the re­sult, the last of which saw the Pe­ru­vian back­stop go full ex­ten­sion to de­ny a laser shot from Yefer­son Sotel­do.

For­mer na­tion­al un­der-20 de­fend­er Luke Singh, who start­ed the sea­son bright­ly for Toron­to was not among the team ros­ter for the clash.

<Chica­go slips past Jones’ In­ter Mi­a­mi>

Chica­go Fire snapped their four-match los­ing streak and picked up their first win of the sea­son, a 1-0 vic­to­ry over T&T de­fend­er Jo­evin Jones’ In­ter Mi­a­mi on Sat­ur­day at Sol­dier Field

Chica­go’s re­ward for en­joy­ing the bet­ter of the en­counter came in the 69th minute from sub­sti­tute Lu­ka Sto­janovic.

The mid­field­er scored straight from a free-kick yard just out­side the penal­ty area, with Mi­a­mi goal­keep­er John Mc­Carthy sure­ly dis­ap­point­ed that he could do no more than par­ry the ball in the net de­spite get­ting in po­si­tion to make the save. Still, the goal end­ed a three-match run in which the Fire had not scored.

Mi­a­mi at­tempt­ed a re­sponse sev­en min­utes lat­er with a shot from Ju­lian Car­ran­za that was wide of the tar­get, but the Fire main­tained the mo­men­tum they start­ed the match with.

In­ter Mi­a­mi then made their last throw of the dice at sal­vaging a point when they re­placed Jones in the 78th minute with the more at­tack-mind­ed Sa­mi Guediri, but The Fire was able to close out the match as a re­sult, suc­cess­ful­ly shut­ting out Mi­a­mi for 90 min­utes.


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