Two weeks after Miami FC beat Orlando City, 3-1, the NASL leader put three goals past Atlanta United to defeat a second MLS team, 3-2. The late winner came from 25-year-old Kwadwo Poku, whomoved to Atlanta from Ghana as a teenager and achieved Open Cup heroics with the Georgia Revolution and Atlanta Silverbacks. In 2013, […]
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Open Cup: 'Mitch Says No!' for FC Cincinnati
For the second game in a row, FC Cincinnati set a U.S. Open Cup attendance crowd and sent the crowd home happy with a win over an MLS club. The second-year USL team beat the Chicago Fire in a shootoutbefore 32,287 fans at Nippert Stadium. Goalkeeper MitchHildebrandt was the hero, making saves on Nemanja Nikolic, […]
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Scoreboard: Open Cup round-of-16 results
Defending champion FC Dallas is among six MLS teams still alive in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The quarterfinals will take place the week of July 10-13 with one game each day. U.S. Open Cup: QUARTERFINALS, SCHEDULE: July 10 in San Jose, Calif. San Jose Earthquakes (MLS) vs. LA Galaxy(MLS) July 11 in Kansas […]
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Crowd Count: FC Cincinnati's top 10 list
FC Cincinnati’s crowd of 32,287 for its shootout win over the Chicago Fire broke its own record for the largest crowd in the U.S. Open Cup exclusive of in the final. In a year and half, it has alreadydrawn four crowds of more than 30,000 fans. FC Cincinnati’s top 10 crowds: ATT. OPPONENT (YEAR, COMPETITION)35,061 […]
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Open Cup: Defending champion FC Dallas advances
Mauro Diaz had a goal and an assist to lead defending champion FC Dallas to a 3-1 win over the Colorado Rapids in the round of 16 of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Defenders RyanHollingshead and Maynor Figueroa both were denied by the woodwork before Diaz scored from the penalty spot after being taken […]
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Datebook: Open Cup round-of-16 schedule (streaming)
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup moves into the round of 16 on Tuesday when FC Dallas host the Colorado Rapids. Two of the Division 2 survivors, FC Cincinnati and Miami FC, are at home on Wednesday. Thethird survivor, Sacramento Republic FC, will play at the LA Galaxy. U.S. Open Cup: ROUND OF 16,SCHEDULE: June […]
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MLS Closeup: FCD finds positives in narrow Open Cup win
In the long run, getting two regulars through a full game counts just as much as the 2-1 victory by which U.S. Open Cup defending champion FC Dallas started its 2017 campaign on Wednesday. In the fifth-round draw conducted Thursday FCD was paired up with Colorado, which rallied from two goals down to beat another […]
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Datebook: Open Cup round-of-16 schedule
Two of the Division 2 survivors in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, FC Cincinnati and Miami FC, earned home games in the round of 16. The third survivor, Sacramento Republic FC, will play at the LAGalaxy. For the complete draw … U.S. Open Cup: ROUND OF 16, SCHEDULE: June 28 in Boston, Mass. New […]
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Value of Open Cup depends on perspective
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Though the end is valuable in itself, the means of the U.S. Open Cup continues to vary wildly for itsMLS participants. It strikes me as ironic that U.S. Soccer has banned the USL teams run by MLS clubs, such as Red Bulls II and their ilk from the Galaxy, Timbers, Sounders, […]
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Scoreboard: Open Cup fourth-round results
Thirteen MLS clubs advanced to the round of 16 of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, where they will be joined by two USL teams and one NASL team. The Columbus Crew, Orlando City and Real SaltLake all lost, while the Colorado Rapids (down two goals at the half), Houston Dynamo (which won in overtime) […]