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In his more than eight years as an assistant coach for FC Dallas Marco Ferruzzi has held various responsibilities under four different head coaches. The San Antonio native even had a short stint as FCD’s interim head coach before current coach Schellas Hyndman was hired in June 2008.

But this season, Ferruzzi has added another responsibility as the new coach of the Dallas reserves. And through their first four games, the FCD reserves are 3-1-0 with nine points, tying them with Houston for the top spot in the Central/Mountain Division of the MLS Reserve League.

Bryan Levya and Jonathan Top each have two goals thus far for the reserves while FCD academy player Michael Ambrose, who is heading to the University of Maryland, currently leads the club with two assists.

In short, the man coaching this group couldn’t be happier.

“Well, it’s been good. The approach from the group has been very positive and committed. I think the one thing we started off with in speaking to the group is that this is an opportunity for you guys to get prepared to play first-team minutes but you have handle these games as important as the first-team games in terms of wanting to play well in terms of wanting to win those games because the results are important,” Ferruzzi said.

And the longtime FCD assistant feels that making sure his players have that same mentality is one of his biggest responsibilities with this young group.

“It’s all the same mentality that you have playing in the first team. If you sit there and you take it as an exercise or you take it as an individual and you separate it from the bigger picture, you’re not going to get the most out of it. So, they’ve taken it the right way,” Ferruzzi said.

So far, the only blemish on the FCD reserves this season is a loss to Houston, who they currently share the division lead with.

“They’ve gotten good results. I think they matched up against Houston, which on paper a good team, and they ended up getting a good result against us but I think we competed against them. It’s given those boys a chance every single week to be in Schellas’ 18 and some of them have already been in the 11,” Ferruzzi said.

Of course, this isn’t the first incarnation of the MLS Reserve League. But this Frisco fixture admits it’s nice to not have to basically pull guest players off the street as was often the case in the earlier incarnation of this league.

“It’s been enjoyable. From the first couple go arounds where we were scrapping for players because of injuries, schedule congestion and the timing of everything, I like the fact that we’re bringing in academy guys. Everybody that’s coming in is an FC Dallas part of the organization and I think it’s benefitting them,” Ferruzzi said. “They’re going to go away to school. They’re going to be that much more confident, that much more able and with that whole idea of being connected to us and coming back. There’s that whole continuity with us, which I like. So I think it’s got a lot of legs.”

In what isn't a huge surprise, FC Dallas will be without midfielder Andrew Jacobson this weekend after he suffered a right hamstring strain in the first half of a 2-1 win over Montreal on Saturday night at FC Dallas Stadium.

Hernan Pertuz, who also was replaced at halftime due to injury, a swollen right foot, will travel to Vancouver. Here’s FCD head coach Schellas Hyndman making it official.

"AJ will not be traveling. Pertuz will be traveling and Villar not," Hyndman said.

With Jacobson unavailable, the likely pick to replace him in the first 11 is second-year player Bobby Warshaw, who really showed well for himself in the second half of the win over the expansion Impact.

As to when Ricardo Villar might be return, no one seems to know. But that didn’t stop his head coach from extolling his toughness and love of the game after training on Wednesday.

"Ricardo is such a tough player. He’s a guy that plays for the passion of the game. He doesn’t play for the money or the glory, he plays because he loves it. You may have players sometime say my leg doesn’t feel 100 percent and they’re looking not to play. Villar’s the opposite. I’m ready to go even if he’s 40 percent injured, I can help because he wants to play, because he has such a passion to play," Hyndman said. "So I think on this one, we’ve got to slow it down a little bit because this could be a serious injury."

Jacobson and Pertuz were both listed as questionable on the MLS injury report published on Tuesday while Villar continues to be listed as out.

By his very nature, FC Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman likes to keep things fairly simple. Basically, if a formation and/or a lineup works, namely results in a win, then he’s very likely to stick with that same methodology in the game following. That was definitely the case in Saturday’s 2-1 win over Montreal.

Even with starting left back Jair Benitez returning from suspension, Hyndman opted to keep Hernan Pertuz in his first 11 at left back and sit Benitez on the bench. Ex-captain Daniel Hernandez did return to the starting lineup alongside Andrew Jacobson but that could have been a simple decision, especially with Ricardo Villar out with a foot injury.

Still, it is interesting to hear the gaffer discuss such things, which he did in great detail after training on Monday.

“It is exactly that [based on the fact that things were working],” Hyndman said. “It was the first shutout we’d had [against New England] and it was working. Now all of a sudden, you’re going to change it after having a first shutout? You have to remember I didn’t think we played very well against D.C. and if you look at those mistakes, you can start looking at the area of concern. That’s why we made the change and so as much as we like Pertuz there, it’s really not his position.”

Hyndman added: “What we do is we lose out on one side of the field because you’ve got Pertuz on one side, who doesn’t attack real well and you’ve got Carlos [Rodriguez] in front of him that doesn’t attack real well. That was another thing that was developing. When I’m making all of these changes and a lot of it is through necessity, knowing that if we get a good result here, a good performance here, it was great but what do we want? I think you’ll start to see us getting back into positional players.”

Now that FC Dallas completed their two-game homestand with the full six points, Schellas Hyndman’s club will hit the road for a third time this season later this week, leaving on Thursday for Vancouver in advance of Saturday’s meeting with the Whitecaps at BC Place. Here’s the gaffer addressing several Vancouver-related subjects after Monday’s practice.

General thoughts on the Whitecaps

Hyndman: I saw Vancouver at Disney and I was really impressed with them. I was wow, what a good team, a good team. You talk about player-to-player, positions, roster, substitution, bench, you look everywhere on the field, they’re a good, good team. They’re playing a home Wednesday night and then they’re playing us at home. The Kansas City game’s going to be a tough game for them but Kansas City’s 6-0 and I think they very well could be the team to beat them. They’re a solid team. For us going in with us being banged up, I’m glad we don’t have a weekday game. We’ll have those games coming up later but I’m really impressed with what they’ve done with their team.

On what makes Sebastien Le Toux such a tough player to account for on the field

Hyndman: Le Toux historically started off as a defender. So he’s got that defensive mentality of courageousness, first to the ball, strong in the air, physical. You add those qualities as a striker-first to the ball, strong in the air, physical and then you add on the fact that he’s probably one of the most fit players in the league. He just runs up and down. We did the yo-yo 2 test the other day and Zach Loyd finished incredibly high, 31. I think the league is like 22 on average and I think the Premier League’s like 23. So 31, unbelievable. I bring that up because I think if Le Toux is running with Zach, I think they’d be very similar. He’s playing with a lot of confidence. We’re shocked that Philadelphia moved him.

On what he sees different in Eric Hassli this year compared to last, his first in MLS

Hyndman: Yeah, one of the best strikers in the league, not only in holding the ball, distributing the ball but just a pure finisher and he’s got the size to go with it. Very, very dangerous player and now you put him and Le Toux together and then you’ve got Camilo [Sanvezzo] and the other boy. They’ve got a very good strike force, I think one of the best in the league. Of course, we were the team that beat them last year at home. It was also the [site of the] injury to David Ferreira [in 2011], so there’s a lot of sidebars going on here.

On former FCD midfielder/forward Atiba Harris

Hyndman: Great player, we loved Atiba. Hard worker, they’ve got him as a big, strong striker with Hassli. I don’t know what this brings. I’m sure in their coaching mentality and their management mentality, it’s you need more than two strikers of quality. I think with Atiba, he may be having some flare-ups with his knee every once in a while but we really like him. I think he’s a hard player, aggressive, strong and maturing into a good striker.

On Vancouver’s No.1 goalkeeper Joe Cannon

Hyndman: A difficult guy to play against, got great experience, a solid keeper. The thing with Joe Cannon is if you’re going to score on him, you’re going to have to beat him. He’s not a keeper that’s going to beat himself. With Vancouver having so much of a strike force, all teams have something to give up and I think what Joe Cannon has been able to do is organize their defense and make them a very difficult team to score against.

Schellas Hyndman has never made any affronts about his strong affinity for the 4-4-2 formation, specifically such a look with a diamond midfield. Of course, with FC Dallas currently lacking in the depth department that just isn’t possible. But when asked for his thoughts on the performance of ex-captain Daniel Hernandez so far this season after a Monday morning recovery session in Frisco, he might have offered a glimpse into his crystal ball.

“When you go with two central midfielders, your hope is that you have one that’s very attacking and one that is very defending. With A.J. and Daniel, they’re basically the same. They’re both holding midfielders, so you need that second striker there that can almost drop back to be of a 4-5-1 formation and we didn’t have that. Blas [Perez] wasn’t that guy and Fabian [Castillo] wasn’t that guy, so A.J. and Daniel had to do a lot of work, a lot of work,” Hyndman said.

He added: “I think players like Daniel play better when you’ve got three central midfielders. Now you can always go in a 4-4-2 with a small diamond, much like what Real Salt Lake does, and we may eventually go in there once David [Ferreira] comes back, Villar’s back and we get all these quality players on our field, Jackson and now you say we can go into a small diamond because we have quality players that are going to keep the ball more.”

The FC Dallas Reserves left Sandy’s America First Field wet and cold, but with three points in tow courtesy of a comprehensive 3-0 victory over their Real Salt Lake Reserves counterparts on Tuesday. With the win, the FC Dallas Reserves move to 3-1-0, their nine points good for a share of the Central/Mountain Division lead alongside the Houston Dynamo, while the RSL Reserves’ third straight defeat dropped the Utah side to a disappointing 0-4-1 halfway through their 2012 MLS Reserve League calendar.

Rainy conditions in the first half made for some slippery footing, hearty challenges and tense moments, culminating with a 34^th minute altercation that followed Dallas forward Ruben Luna’s sliding challenge into RSL goalkeeper Kyle Reynish, which resulted in a yellow card shown to the Dallas attacker. Luna would help move the scoreboard shortly thereafter in the 41^st minute, his lobbed ball across the six finding midfielder Jonathan Top, who slammed a side-volley past Reynish and inside the bottom left corner to put the visitors up 1-0.

The FC Dallas Reserves doubled the advantage shortly after halftime off a penalty kick opportunity, created in the 49^th minute when RSL defender Chris Schuler clipped Luna inside the box. Midfielder Bruno Guarda would earn a caution for dissent shortly after the foul, but he was composed enough to bury the spot kick low and inside the right post seconds later to put Dallas up 2-0. Five minutes later the visitors tacked on a third, as defender Mike Ambrose swung a ball in from the left wing to on-rushing striker Scott Sealy, who placed his re-directed header off the right post and in.

Tensions once again rose to the forefront in the 80^th minute, when RSL Reserves forward Paulo Junior was shown a red card for a reckless challenge in the center circle against Top, followed shortly thereafter by Guarda’s ejection for making contact with the referee in the ensuing scrum. The Claret-and-Cobalt’s best chances of the day came in the 88^th minute from midfielder Jordan Allen, but the RSL-Arizona Academy product saw both of his shots from within 10 yards blocked by a scrambling Richard Sanchez, who entered the match at goalkeeper at the halftime break and combined with starter Chris Seitz for the shutout.

The FC Dallas Reserves will resume play with a road challenge against Sporting Kansas City Reserves (1-1-1) at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park on Tuesday, May 1 (7:30 p.m. CT).

MLS Reserve League Box Score

Real Salt Lake Reserves 0 : 3 FC Dallas Reserves

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

America First Field – Sandy, UT

Scoring Summary:
FCD – Jonathan Top (Ruben Luna) 41
FCD – Bruno Guarda (penalty kick) 49
FCD – Scott Sealy (Mike Ambrose) 54

Disciplinary Summary:
FCD – Ruben Luna (caution, Reckless Tackle) 34
FCD – Bruno Guarda (caution, Dissent) 49
FCD – Bruno Guarda (ejection, Unsporting Behavior) 80
RSL – Paulo Jr. (ejection, Reckless Foul) 80

Real Salt Lake Reserves (4-4-2): Kyle Reynish (c) (Lalo Fernandez 67); Terukazu Tanaka, Leone Cruz, Chris Schuler, Chris Estridge (Carlos Salcedo** 75); Yordany Alvarez, Enzo Martinez (Jordan Allen** 60), Jonny Steele, Sebastian Velasquez; Paulo Junior, Emiliano Bonfigli

Substitutes Not Used: Taylor Bowlin*, Luis Gil

FC Dallas Reserves (4-4-2): Chris Seitz (c) (Richard Sanchez 45); Alex Lee, Matt Hedges (Aaron Guillen** 88), Mark Barone*, Moises Hernandez; Jonathan Top (Flavio Guzman** 81), Bruno Guarda, Victor Ulloa, Michael Ambrose; Scott Sealy (David Robledo** 60), Ruben Luna

Substitutes Not Used: Bryan Leyva
*Guest player
**RSL-Arizona/FC Dallas Academy player

Referee: Alex Krelo
Referee Assistants: Hamed Sadeghi, Alan Jimenez
4^th Official: Brad Jensen

When FC Dallas signed Carlos Rodriguez back during preseason, Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman knew he was getting a quality player in the 22-year-old Panamanian. However, not even Hyndman had an idea of just how versatile Rodriguez would prove to be.

So far, the versatile Panamanian has played all over the field for FCD, at right midfield, left midfield and also at right back and left back. He has appeared in five of Dallas’ first six games, the only game he missed while he was away for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament. In short, this guy has been huge.

“I feel really good out there. I can play wherever,” Rodriguez said on Monday through a translator. “I’ll do whatever it takes to help the team out and get results.”

And it’s clear how Hyndman feels about one of his newest additions. But not only did the Dallas gaffer extol the greatness of Rodriguez, but he also did so with fellow newcomer Hernan Pertuz, whose signing has brought equally favorable benefits to FCD.

“He’s a wonderful young player,” Hyndman said of Rodriguez. “He and Hernan both, anytime I’ve moved them around, they both give me that look of whatever you need coach. They’ve brought the positive things I had hoped for but I also know I’m not getting the best out of them because they’re still trying to learn a new position. As I said to Carlos after the game the other day, a great second half, glad to see you perform in your position and he had a big smile on his face because that’s where he wants to play. That [at left back] is where he is a national team player for Panama but he has the versatility.”

But like every player, Rodriguez admits he does have one spot he prefers to line up on the pitch above all others. “My natural position is left back. Coach said he wants me to play the left midfield spot, so I’m just going to do whatever I can to help the team out on the field,” he said.

Maybe one reason why he has performed so well is that ever since he joined the club back in March, his new teammates have welcomed him with open arms. “They’ve really helped me adjust to the team. We’re one family off the field. We get along on the field and get along off the field just as well,” Rodriguez said.

While having versatile players is great, especially for a team who isn’t all that deep, like is currently the case for Dallas, it also comes at a price.

“If you remember what we’ve done with Jackson, Jackson’s played everywhere but goalkeeper. He’s been right side, left side, center, center back, right back, left back, he’s played everywhere and that’s great for a team that needs that versatile player,” Hyndman said. “I don’t know if it’s great for the player.”

FC Dallas midfielder Brek Shea has been nomiated for MLS Goal of the Week, you can go vote here. He will need all the votes he can get since David Beckham is nominated as well (with admittedly a cracker of a goal). Old friend Dax McCarty is also nominated.

Last Thursday, FC Dallas announced they had recalled Jackson Goncalves from his loan to Brazilian side Cruzeiro. However, as of yet, the versatile South American defender, midfielder, and even occasional forward, has yet to return to Frisco.

Jackson could be back in Frisco later this week, and it will be interesting if he arrives back in time to possibly be available for Saturday’s game at Vancouver. Dallas’ last day of training in the Lone Star State is Wednesday before the team leaves on Thursday. FCD plans to train in Vancouver on Friday.

“I don’t know [exactly when he’ll be here],” Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman said after a recovery session on Monday. “I think his whole thing is just getting his visa, getting into the American Embassy and getting his visa. We have all the paperwork and everything in place. He could have been here last week, so hopefully he’ll be here shortly.”

Midfielders David Ferreira and Andrew Wiedeman, who had surgery to repair a sports hernia last week, remain on the shelf for at least the next six to seven weeks, but FC Dallas also had several other players pick up injuries last week, so here’s an update from FCD head coach Schellas Hyndman.

M ANDREW JACOBSON (hamstring injury in first half of Saturday’s win over Montreal)

Hyndman: It [his condition] is a big improvement from yesterday but there’s still a little bit of swelling in the back of the leg and we’re going to be very cautious this week and see if we can get him back for this game.

M BRYAN LEYVA (ankle sprain picked up in training last week)

Hyndman: No it wasn’t [in last week’s reserve game that he picked up that injury]. It was out here in training and it was just a couple days ago. He’ll be going for the reserve game today [Monday].

D HERNAN PERTUZ (leg injury in first half of Montreal game)

Hyndman: Much better as well, it happened about the last 10 minutes of the half. He just took a pretty hard hit to the middle of the foot. He’s getting treatment. Today was a recovery day, so neither player was really asked to do anything but I think he’ll be a player that we’ll just continue to watch as well.

M RICARDO VILLAR (foot injury in first half of 1-0 win over New England on April 5

Hyndman: Very good improvement, his toe is probably the area that’s got the greatest concern. The reason for that is it’s an area where you really explode from, that part of your foot. Right now we’re just grading it.

One player who has yet to be heard from this season for FC Dallas is 20-year-old forward Ruben Luna. The homegrown striker comes off a season where he played in 15 games with the first team and scored one goal. Luna also led the MLS Reserve League with 10 goals. However, he has yet to earn any minutes with the first team so far this year and FCD head coach Schellas Hyndman offered a simple explanation about why that has been the case thus far.

“Ruben’s a player that has kind of been off and on. I think he’s a player that came in and got an injury in preseason. Because we’ve been working so hard, he’s been trying to catch up. I think for him to get on the field and be of help to us, he’s got to be a little bit more productive in reserve games,” Hyndman said. “’So we’ve been watching him very closely. All players, especially young players, have peaks and dips. Right now I think he’s working his way back up to develop self-confidence.”

First Touch: A mix of Dallas' inability to play in a 4-4-2 and Montreal unable to, uh, play very well at all (hey, they're an expansion side!) meant that the first half was a display of soccer awfulness at its most unwatchable.

Second Touch: Hyndman's shift back to a 4-1-4-1 put players back in natural spots and his side looked far more comfortable, even having to fight back from a surprise deficit and a bad night of refereeing

The Finish: With roster struggles continuing FCD pulls a second straight late game dramatic from its sock for a good crowd and Shea sticks the other sock in Davey Arnaund's whiny cake hole.

Grades:

Hartman: 7 - He's the great Hartman, but the late game incident was all of his own making in trying to kill time and play the ball instead of catching it. His demonstration afterwards looks very exaggerated when you see the replay, and silly too.

Loyd: 7 - Started at left back in the 4-4-2, moved back to right back in 2nd half. Solid night overall, but his crossing from the left was not good enough (that's picky)…

Pertuz: 6 - Picked up a knock early that coach says he fought through, would explain a couple of his odd moments and refusal to get into attack when coaches were demanding he did so.

John: 7 - Continues to show new things, one assumes, he picked up while in England. Would easily be MLS best if he can improve attacking passes of 15+ yards.

Ugo: 7 - He and John worked well to keep Corradi in offside spots, Ugo was far more careful with the ball…Other than that near disaster pass late in the match.

Rodriguez: 6 - At right mid he's generally tidy, but doesn't get involved enough. Was really solid at left back (his more natural spot) in the 2nd.

Shea: 7 - Some might argue he deserves better for the late match dramatics. While Brek was improved from the last few outings, he is held to a higher standard. Many moments he looked more determined to grab control, but many of those ended in bad decisions, turnovers or a poor touch letting him down. If Brek is the Euro quality player he is touted to be, a grade of "7" is pretty generous for this particular performance.

Jacobson: 4 - He was hacked hard twice and came out of the match due to that, but he and Hernandez struggled as holding mids in the first half. AJ's season continues to ask if he's the right guy for FCD.

Hernandez: 6 - The score is the result of his fight late in the match when he was obviously battered, the outstanding free kick that led to the tying goal and his improved distribution (mostly in 2nd half)

Castillo: 6 - His final touch of the match was his best and darned important. Prior to that he struggled to make an impact on the match. Let's not talk about the late 1v1 missed shot.

Perez: 8 - Still not getting enough opportunities to score, but that is not a fault of Blas' effort or work rate. Like Hyndman commented after the match, "What would this team have been like in prior seasons if we'd had Blas?" MotM and climbing the pole of All Time Dallas greats.

Subs:

Guarda: 6 - Playing that attacking spot is not his forte, but he did some good work coming back deep to help defend. Put in a helpful, but not impactful 45 minutes

Warshaw: 7 - Impressively tidy 45 minutes with some smart possessive passing and covering a lot of ground. Had to work extra hard in final 15 minutes to help an injured Daniel.

Hedges: n/a - Thrown in very late just to help cover for Daniel in the midfield

Once again the excellent photographic work of Matthew Visinsky. Enjoy.
(written by Buzz, Matt doesn't talk about himself in 3rd person.)

It was a solid win by FC Dallas on Saturday night, beating the expansion Montreal Impact 2-1 at FC Dallas Stadium in a game that was eventful to say the least.

When Dallas gaffer Schellas Hyndman made two changes to start the second half, bringing on Bruno Guarda and Bobby Warshaw for Andrew Jacobson and Hernan Pertuz, respectively, few thought it was anything more than a tactical adjustment. And since those changes signaled a shift from the 4-4-2 formation that FCD had employed in the opening 45 minutes to more of a 4-1-4-1 in the final half of play, no one thought that those two substitutions could be injury-related.

However, injuries are exactly what had happened, something Hyndman discussed after the game.

It turns out Jacobson was having some issues in his back and leg after getting kicked more than a few times by the hard-fouling boys from Montreal. As for Pertuz, he had a foot swell up and was unable to answer the bell for the second half.

“Pertuz got kicked over on the sideline and just wasn’t able to go. He fought his way through the first half but we knew something was wrong,” Hyndman said. “When we brought him up here [to the locker room at halftime], the foot was swollen and he just couldn’t go. AJ took a few hits, more of the back and leg that was bothering him.”

Obviously, if these injuries keep one or both of these guys off the field for any significant period of time they are big negatives for Dallas. No matter whether it’s been at left back or at right back, where he has started each of the last two weeks in Hyndman’s 4-4-2, the Colombian defender Pertuz has been a rock-solid addition to the FCD backline.

Some might have questioned why Jair Benitez, who normally starts at left back for Dallas, wasn’t back in the first 11 for the Montreal game, but the answer is simple. If Hyndman is anything, he’s consistent, especially when it comes to winning. When a formation and a lineup works, if all of those same 11 players are available the following week, it’s a safe bet he’ll employ the same look barring something unforeseen.

That’s why Pertuz was in the starting lineup against the Impact and Benitez was on the pine. Pertuz has earned his playing time and will be until he slips up or Jair plays his way back into the first 11 through a string of strong performances in training... pending injury of course. Pertuz might be relatively new to MLS and to this club, but he’s already more than shown his value and if he’s not available for a while, it would definitely be a big loss.

Ditto for Jacobson, who after a rough start to the season, seems to have found himself and is no longer trying to do too much in the middle of the field. Some feel he might best serve this team as the holding mid with Warshaw possibly starting in the linking role but that’s a whole other discussion. The fact of the matter is that he and Daniel Hernandez form a steady if not a bit nard-nosed tandem in the middle of the yard and if A.J. is out for a while, that too would be a big loss.

Of course, the Dallas midfield is already a bit thin with David Ferreira out for about the next two months, as is Andrew Wiedeman, after both of them underwent recent surgeries. Ricardo Villar is week to week. Help is on the way as Jackson is thought to be arriving this week but it’s unknown what his current fitness level is, but if he’s ready to roll, he can definitely provide help in very short order.

We’ll find out more about the condition of Jacobson and Pertuz on Monday. Hopefully the news is good.

Scoring Summary:
MON – Bernardo Corradi (PK) 61
DAL – Blas Perez 77
DAL – Brek Shea (Perez, Fabian Castillo) 88

FC Dallas – Kevin Hartman, Zach Loyd, Ugo Ihemelu, George John, Hernan Pertuz (Bobby Warshaw 45), Brek Shea, Daniel Hernandez, Andrew Jacobson (Bruno Guarda 45), Carlos Rodriguez, Fabian Castillo (Matt Hedges 90), Blas Perez.

Substitutes Not Used: Chris Seitz, Victor Ulloa, Scott Sealy, Jair Benitez.

TOTAL SHOTS: 13 (Blas Perez 4);
SHOTS ON GOAL: 4 (Blas Perez 2);
FOULS: 17 (Carlos Rodriguez, Daniel Hernandez 3);
OFFSIDES: 5 (Fabian Castillo 4);
CORNER KICKS: 3 (Daniel Hernandez 2);
SAVES: 4 (Kevin Hartman 4).

Montreal Impact – Donovan Ricketts, Tyson Wahl, Matteo Ferrari, Shavar Thomas, Zarek Valentin, Lamar Neagle (Sanna Nyassi 72), Felipe Martins, Collen Warner, Justin Mapp (Sinisa Ubiparipovic 88), Davy Arnaud, Bernardo Corradi (Andrew Wenger 72).

Substitutes Not Used: Greg Sutton, Josh Gardner, Patrice Bernier, Justin Braun.

TOTAL SHOTS: 9 (Felipe Martins 4);
SHOTS ON GOAL: 5 (five players with one);
FOULS: 17 (Tyson Wahl 5);
OFFSIDES: 4 (Bernardo Corradi, Davy Arnaud 2);
CORNER KICKS: 4 (four players with one);
SAVES: 2 (Donovan Ricketts 2).

Misconduct Summary:
MON – Bernardo Corradi (caution; reckless challenge) 18
MON – Felipe Martins (caution; reckless challenge) 22
DAL – Fabian Castillo (caution; professional foul) 28
MON – Tyson Wahl (caution; reckless challenge) 46

Referee: Ramon Hernandez
Referee’s Assistants: Chris Strickland, Claudio Badea
4th Official: Ismail Elfath
Attendance: 16,164
Time of Game: 2:03
Weather: Cloudy, 80 degrees