{"id":28113,"date":"2014-09-27T23:51:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T03:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=28113"},"modified":"2014-09-27T23:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T03:51:36","slug":"asl-vieira-leads-charge-in-win-for-western-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=28113","title":{"rendered":"ASL: Vieira Leads Charge in Win for Western Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LUDLOW, Mass \u2013 Maxi Vieira scored twice to send Western Mass Pro Soccer to a convincing 2-0 win over the Rhode Island Oceaneers on Saturday at Lusitano Stadium.<\/p>\n

Vieira struck in the 16th and 63rd minutes while goalkeeper Warren Gross collected his fourth straight clean sheet. With the win, the Lusitanos remain unbeaten (3-0-2, 9 points) on the season while the Oceaneers (1-2-0, 3 points) couldn\u2019t continue the success seen in Friday\u2019s win over the Evergreen Diplomats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was the best game he\u2019s ever played here,\u201d Molinari said of Vieira\u2019s performance. \u201cHe\u2019s playing with a lot of confidence, and he\u2019s doing very good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vieira was active early and often, serving as the main conduit for the Lusitanos\u2019 attack. So it wasn\u2019t surprising that he\u2019d notch the first goal of the game.<\/p>\n

James Beeston sent an outswining corner toward the top of the box, where Vieira sent it through on a snap header to give the hosts the opener inside of 16 minutes.<\/p>\n

The guests, for their part, knew that finding an equalizer wouldn\u2019t be easy. After playing a high-tempo game against the Diplomats the night before, tired legs were clearly a factor for the Oceaneers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to make excuses,\u201d Oceaneers captain Wilder Arboleda said. \u201cBut some of the guys playing tonight went 60 and 70 minutes last night, too. So it was tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, nothing came easy for Arboleda and his teammates, who were without coach Jasir Charris after he was sent off in Friday’s match. Though Arboleda, Andres Perdomo and Emerson Barros created chances, Western Mass was simply too much for the Oceaneers to handle. Goalkeeper Chris Moura was on high alert all evening, and was called upon to make 11 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a team that plays hard, and likes to go hard on 50\/50 balls,\u201d Molinari said. \u201cI think they\u2019re really good.\u201d
\nWhile the Oceaneers were able to keep the match close despite the circumstances, it was only a matter of time before the Lusitanos capitalize for second time.<\/p>\n

After Anthony Bauman was called for handling inside the area, a penalty was awarded to the hosts. From the spot, Vieira sent Moura the wrong way to score his second goal of the evening in the 63rd minute.<\/p>\n

The hosts continued to press for more in the latter stages. Substitute midfielder Eddie Bogle created a number of problems for the Oceaneers defense by using his speed and inventiveness to fire two shots that nearly found the back of the net.<\/p>\n

All told, the Lusitanos fired 17 shots on Saturday, and collected eight corner kicks on a night in which a number of Molinari\u2019s men were active going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see that when we attack, we have at least three or four guys pushing into the 18,\u201d Molinari said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the guy who\u2019s going to score (a lot) of goals. So we have to (attack) with different players.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lusitanos return to action October 4 when they face the Philadelphia Fury. The Oceaneers will be back on the pitch on October 4 to face Mass United FC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maxi Vieira bagged a brace to give Western Mass a sound 2-0 win over the Rhode Island Oceaneers on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[625,868,869,858,867],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28115,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28113\/revisions\/28115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}