Revs Draw With Red Bulls

New England Revolution
at New York Red Bulls

April 19, 2008
East Rutherford, N.J. (Giants Stadium)

Scoring Summary
NY – Jozy Altidore (unassisted) 30
NE – Jeff Larentowicz (unassisted) 56

New England Revolution: Matt Reis, Amaechi Igwe, Michael Parkhurst, Jay Heaps, Khano Smith (Wells Thompson 84), Jeff Larentowicz, Shalrie Joseph ©, Mauricio Castro, Sainey Nyassi, Adam Cristman (Chase Hilgenbrinck 69), Kenny Mansally (Kheli Dube 77)
Substitutes Not Used: Doug Warren (GK), Gary Flood, Rob Valentino, Argenis Fernandez

New York Red Bulls: Jon Conway, Kevin Goldthwaite, Jeff Parke, Carlos Mendes, Dave van den Bergh, Sinisa Ubiparipovic (Danleigh Borman 61), Seth Stammler, Claudio Reyna © (Mike Magee 77), Chris Leitch, Jozy Altidore, Juan Pablo Angel (John Wolyniec 46)
Substitutes Not Used: Zach Thornton (GK), Luke Sassano, Oscar Echeverry, Chris Megaloudis

The New England Revolution, trailing by a goal and down a man early in the second half, battled back to earn a 1-1 draw with the New York Red Bulls at Giants Stadium on Saturday night. A spectacular 56th-minute free kick by Jeff Larentowicz and a remarkable effort by goalkeeper Matt Reis helped the 10-man Revs pick up a valuable point on the road.

The meeting was the 53rd all-time between New England (2-2-1, 7 pts.) and New York (1-1-1, 4 pts.) – including regular-season and postseason contests – which represents the highest total of games the Revolution has played against any other MLS team.

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Go Revs!

TomC

Celtic Clip Aberdeen

Scottish Premier League
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Celtic Park, Glasgow

CELTIC… 1
(Samaras 56)

ABERDEEN… 0

CELTIC (4-4-2) Boruc; Hinkel (Caddis 46), Balde, McManus, Wilson; Nakamura, Robson, Donati, McGeady; McDonald (Killen 84), Samaras.
Subs: M Brown, McGowan, Sno, Pressley, Mizuno.

ABERDEEN (4-5-1) Langfield; Maybury, Diamond, Considine, Hart; De Visscher (Aluko 80), Severin, Nicholson, Duff, Young; Miller.
Subs: Soutar, Lovell, Maguire, Bus, Smith, Aluko, Walker.

Celtic rode their luck and a rollercoaster of emotion as a solitary Georgios Samaras goal deservedly sealed all three points in a nail-biting encounter with Aberdeen.

There were a few nervous moments towards the end of the match, and relief when Zander Diamond's late strike for the visitors was fortuitously ruled out by referee Iain Brines for an apparent hand ball by Barry Nicholson.

However, Celtic ultimately deserved the victory which maintains the winning run after Wednesday’s stunning derby win over Rangers and puts them back on top of the SPL.

Gordon Strachan was forced to make four changes to the team which started during midweek, with Bobo Balde, Mark Wilson, Massimo Donati and Georgios Samaras stepping in place of the suspended Gary Caldwell and the injured trio of Lee Naylor, Paul Hartley and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink.

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After beating Rangers at midweek, the Bhoys have a chance. They have to continue to win out to hold onto that chance. Here is hoping that they do!

'MON THE HOOPS!

TomC