{"id":919,"date":"2010-09-23T00:21:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T04:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2010-09-24T10:11:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T14:11:24","slug":"disappointment-in-the-big-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Disappointment in the Big D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO, Tex. \u2013 Holding a two-goal lead late, the New England Revolution surrendered a pair of goals in the waning minutes as they drew 2-2 to FC Dallas at Pizza Hut Park Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph\u2019s score in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> minute gave the Revolution the early lead, while Ilija Stolica scored another in the 66<sup>th<\/sup> minute. But David Ferreira\u2019s 80<sup>th<\/sup> minute penalty and Jeff Cunningham\u2019s 93<sup>rd<\/sup> minute goal clinched the come from behind draw.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_218\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-218\" href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" data-attachment-id=\"218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=218\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/joseph.jpg?fit=368%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"368,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D Mark II N&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1283370976&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;280&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shalrie Joseph\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Joseph has had more and more of the offensive burden placed on his shoulders each year since 2006. (Photo by CHRIS ADUAMA\/aduama.com)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/joseph.jpg?fit=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/joseph.jpg?fit=368%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-218\" title=\"Shalrie Joseph\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/joseph.jpg?resize=220%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/joseph.jpg?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/joseph.jpg?w=368&amp;ssl=1 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shalrie Joseph&#39;s first goal of the season gave the Revs an early lead in Dallas. (Photo by CHRIS ADUAMA\/aduama.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The draw extended Dallas&#8217; league-best 16-match unbeaten streak.<\/p>\n<p>New England opened the game with a swagger unseen in their previous pair of matches. The first opportunity to crack the scoresheet appeared only four minutes in when Marko Perovic uncorked a shot that Dario Sala punched away.<\/p>\n<p>But the keeper wasn\u2019t up to the task a minute later when the Revolution marched toward his net. Chris Tierney captured a wayward ball in the middle and sailed it ahead into the heart of the box, where Joseph settled it, took a touch, and struck it past Sala to earn his club their first lead of the road trip.<\/p>\n<p>After the guests had dominated the middle for the first ten minutes, Dallas began to put up a fight. Atiba Harris carried it in to the box, where he eventually crashed down and requested a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Playing with newfound confidence, they looked primed to score another until the 31<sup>st<\/sup> minute when Milton Rodriguez sent a ball ahead to Ferreira inside the 18, where he and Kenny Mansally battled for it before Dallas\u2019 midfield maestro hit the pitch and was awarded a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira stepped up to the spot, but hooked it wide right in the 34<sup>th<\/sup> minute to leave the board unblemished. Knowing they had dodged a bullet, the Revolution backline clamped down to keep Dallas off the board in the first frame.<\/p>\n<p>With their best 45 minutes of their three-match road set under their belts, the Revolution eyed another solid frame in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dallas came out of the locker room a new team. A team ready to attack and assert themselves in the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>They wasted little time doing so, as\u00a0Martin Chavez trekked into the attacking third and delivered a smart cross toward the far post, where an unmarked Eric Alexander headed it over the bar in the 53rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, Ferreira followed up with a sizzling shot from twenty that Matt Reis casually snatched above his head in the 55<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>By the hour it was clear that that the hosts had owned the ball, sending a series of attacks toward the Revolution backs.<\/p>\n<p>After sustaining enemy fire for much of the frame, the Revolution finally responded in the 66<sup>th<\/sup> when Perovic raced down the left and slid it toward a streaking Stolica, who poked it through to give his club a commanding two-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0Dallas was far from finished. Shortly after Ferreira was taken down inside the area again \u2013 this time by Darrius Barnes &#8211; another penalty was awarded by referee Baldomero Toledo in the 79<sup>th<\/sup> minute. Ferreira\u2019s second go from the spot didn\u2019t miss, and put the score at 2-1 in the 80<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Clutching a tenuous one-goal lead into stoppage, the Revolution survived a series of late Dallas attacks until Eric Avila delivered a keen ball from D toward the right post, where Ferreira tapped it toward the opposite stick. At the last possible moment, Cunningham charged ahead and redirected it through to give Dallas the last-gasp draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revolution leave points on the pitch after conceding the equalizer in the closing seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/josephfeature.jpg?fit=490%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}