Freddy Adu and DC United won their first playoff game 1-0 against the New York Red Bulls and came into their second game looking to easily move on to the second round. However their fate didn’t look too good early in the game.
During the first half of play DC United was sloppy, botching crosses and making bad decisions. But the Red Bulls couldn’t take advantage of the early mistakes, unable to score in the first half. Freddy Adu was once again denied a penalty call as the Red Bull goal keeper tripped him up by his ankles and Adu tapped the ball towards the goal just missing, without a call.
Red Bull Youngster Josmer Altidore scored the first goal of the game with a header to the left corner of the goal to give the game it’s first score. Then late in the game, Christian Gomez scored to give DC United a 1-1 tie in the game but a 2-1 lead on aggregate overall in the series.
DC United held off the Red Bulls for the remaining time to end the game and move on. They play the New England Revolution at 4 p.m. eastern time on Sunday November 5th.
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