CJ Fodrey scored on a header off a nook kick within the 82nd minute to offer Austin FC a 2-1 victory over host Sporting Kansas Metropolis on Sunday evening.
The win was Austin’s first in 13 matches this season after conceding the opening aim.
Owen Wolff scored Austin’s first aim within the thirty seventh minute and assisted Fodrey’s winner. Dejan Joveljic nailed a penalty kick within the sixteenth minute to offer Sporting Kansas Metropolis an early benefit.
Austin (11-9-8, 41 factors), standing in sixth within the Western Convention, noticed SKC (7-16-6, 27 factors) management many of the second half earlier than grabbing the late lead.
Sporting Kansas Metropolis, thirteenth within the West, got here into the sport with 21 targets within the remaining half-hour of matches, third-most in MLS. Whereas that they had loads of alternatives to take a lead, or tie it late, they could not convert.
Austin almost took a 2-1 lead within the 73rd minute when Fodrey’s header off a cross hit the left publish. That sparked Austin’s assault momentarily, till SKC’s Erik Thommy entered the sport to switch Shapi Suleymanov within the 76th minute. It was Thommy’s first motion since July 4 resulting from a hip harm.
Sporting had a golden likelihood within the 79th minute when Austin goalkeeper Brad Stuver needed to make a diving save of a Daniel Salloi rocket.
Shortly after Stuver’s save, SKC goalie John Pulskamp needed to make a diving deflection on the opposite finish on Robert Taylor’s right-footed shot from the middle of the field.
That resulted in Austin’s first nook of the match, and Fodrey’s header on Wolff’s cross gave Austin a 2-1 lead.
Sporting grabbed an early benefit after a VAR choice to award a penalty on a foul by Nicolas Dubersarsky, who tripped Suleymanov within the field. Joveljic transformed the penalty within the sixteenth minute when Stuver dove to his proper and Joveljic fired it to the decrease proper nook.
It was the beginning Austin was attempting to keep away from. They’d misplaced 9 and drew three of the primary 12 matches when conceding the primary aim of the match.
Austin drew stage within the thirty seventh minute. Guilherme Biro launched a cross from 20 yards behind the midfield stripe that Wolff collected fantastically simply outdoors the 18-yard field. He allowed the SKC protection to run previous him after which left-footed it previous rapidly approaching Pulskamp for the tying aim.
SKC had a 12-9 photographs benefit, and every squad completed with 4 photographs on aim. Stuver had three saves and Pulskamp made two.
–Area Stage Media
