Captain Alexander Ring scored within the first half of harm time and Sebastian Driussi scored his 14th objective of the season in MLS to guide Austin FC to a 2-0 win over Sporting Kansas Metropolis on Saturday evening in Kansas Metropolis, Kan.
Brad Stuver returned from a match absence because of the COVID-19 protocol and made a save for Austin FC (13-5-5, 44 factors), which improved to 5-0-1 within the final six away video games.
Stuver highlighted his evening by denying his second penalty of the season after making a diving cease on Daniel Salloi within the 63rd minute. Stuver went on to file his seventh clear sheet of the season and thirteenth in his profession.
John Pulskamp completed with 4 saves for Sporting Kansas Metropolis (5-14-5, 20 factors), who’ve been omitted in every of their final three video games total.
The match was turned within the forty third minute after Sporting Kansas Metropolis’s Cameron Duke was despatched off after his second yellow card in a span of 4 minutes. Duke’s string of nasty fouls pressured Sporting Kansas Metropolis to play with 10 males for the rest of the match.
Austin FC wasted little time taking benefit when Ring unleashed a shot from outdoors the field that went proper between Pulskamp’s legs. Ring’s objective was his fourth of the season and the 18th of his profession.
Sporting Kansas Metropolis’s greatest probability to reply got here after Felipe Martins was whistled for a hand ball within the penalty space within the sixtieth minute. Salloi, nevertheless, was unable to reap the benefits of the chance.
Austin FC practically doubled their lead within the 67th minute when Diego Fagundez used Ethan Finlay’s rebound from a shot on the far publish at house. The obvious objective was overturned by the video evaluation, with Fagundez deemed offside.
Austin FC put the ball within the web on three events in the beginning of the match, however all three have been disallowed for offside.
Driussi secured within the ninetieth minute after changing a Fagundez by way of ball.
–Common on the discipline degree