2023-10-15 03:57:05
Argentine Alan Velasco scored late in the first half and FC Dallas rescued a 1-1 draw once morest the Colorado Rapids on Saturday, a result that was not enough to secure their place in the postseason.
Rafael Navarro scored his first goal in MLS in the 25th minute to give the visitors the lead. It was the Brazilian’s ninth game in the league, all starts.
Velasco responded with his fourth goal of the season in the 37th.
Dallas reached 43 points, which is eighth in the Western Conference. He mightn’t get better results once morest the Rapids, who are bottom with 27 points.
The Texan team will conclude the regular season, visiting the Los Angeles Galaxy next Saturday. The Rapids will host Real Salt Lake.
Also on Saturday, newcomer Sam Surridge scored two goals in the first half and Nashville beat the New England Revolution 3-2 in a duel between teams qualified for the playoffs.
Nashville ended a streak of four games without a win, as well as another of three games without a goal, which was the worst in the team’s history. He won for only the second time in 12 games. Despite the bad streak he had gotten into, he is already in the playoffs, with 49 points, with only one date remaining.
New England has not won in its last 13 away games in various competitions. After a long time in second place in the Eastern Conference, they are now in fifth position with 52 points.
Their debut goalkeeper Jacob Jackson was received in a bad way by Nashville, who took the lead in the 19th minute, with a goal from Dax McCarty, his first of the campaign.
Surridge made it 2-0 with the first score in MLS, in his fifth start and eighth since arriving from Nottingham Forest of the English Premier League, as a designated player, in a signing for almost $6.5 million. .
The Englishman also scored in the third minute of first-half stoppage time, so that Nashville went into the break with a large 3-0 lead.
New England got its first goal four minutes into the second half, through a shot by Tomás Chancalay, who also scored in the 71st minute.
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