As noted by HC Chris Armas, an inductee into the Long Island Soccer Player Hall of Fame, there have been a great many goal scorers for his team this year. This evidenced itself as a trio of players scored and an equal number had assists, yet only one did both, Royer getting his Goal well into extra time off a great run by Kyle Duncan, fresh out of camp with the US, the 2nd assist going to BWP who looked well after quite a long layoff, had 20 minutes. Kaku had the goal of the game taking the ball, misplayed by the 'keeper then burying it in the back of the net at 8' in. 51' later Royer fed Brian White for his 5th of the season. To an extent this spreading out of the goals has been timely as the main source for them over the last few seasons, BWP had been sidelined, while he finds his fitness in the near future, should he pick up where he dropped off and the others continue at their level of contributions, look out MLS. The Fire opened hot with a trio of great chances in the first 10 minutes, CJ Sapong fed by Katai, his shot was played away at 5', again Sapong from the back post by Nicolas Gaitan saw the header go just high at 6', finally Gaitan again set up a teammate, this time Katai and he was just off target. The Kaku goal came via a back pass to the GK, which he misplayed and it was tucked away into the vacant net, see the Facebook of #SoccerLongIslandMagazine for our interview with Kaku on this. As the half came to a close Luis Robles, the RBNY captain answered the call a few times, thwarting the away team's attack, featuring 26 shots. At 54' Katai beat a few Red Bull players to have Robles push the go on goal wide with a diving save, 56' and Sapong sent another strike goalward, but again Robles was more than up to the challange. Through the first hour, Chicago outshot the hosts 21-6, an astounding figure to not net even a single goal, at 59' White tucked away the ball from Royer making it 2-0. Sapong had his 6th shot of the day go off his right foot and wide of its mark. 81' saw the visitors finally visit the scoreboard with Nikolic converting a rebond of a Katai try on goal, Nikolic then had the last of the shots for his side on the day. The 3' of extra time ended the scoring as Royer found the ball, a product of a great run by Kyle DUncan and struck it true.
Kwik Kixx:
-This win put NYRB squarely in the log jam that is the Eastern Conf. just 5 points out of first and tied for 4th.
-Home cooking has been delicious for NYRRB of late, going 3-0-1, no losses in the last 4 games at RBA.
-Kaku was not just on fire facing the Fire, getting his 3rd goal, 9th as a Red Bull, but he now has points in 5 straight games, a trio of goals and a pair of assists.
-White has the team lead with 5 tallies, in a miniscule 708 inutes of game time, over his last 5 games he has a trio of goals and a single assist, 3g & 2a in this span.
-Royer trails White by one goal, now sits at 28 for his career.
-Capt. & GK, Luis Robles hit his season high of 7 assists putting him 7th in MLS history with wins at 108.
