Superliga Wrap: Night Two

Well my pre­dic­tions about this com­pe­ti­tion at least to this point look laugh­able. Pachuca my pick to win the Superliga con­trolled the match ver­sus L.A. Galaxy but some fan­tas­tic indi­vid­ual play by Lan­don Dono­van and Cobi Jones cost them the game. Then last night, DC United the team I picked to face Pachuca in the August 29th final strug­gled at home and finally ended in a draw with 10 man Moriela. Recall, that I said that both Moriela and the LA Galaxy did not belong in this event and that both had been included solely for mar­ket­ing purposes.

Match two last night had a great atmos­phere at Robert­son Sta­dium as we saw Hous­ton really take the match to Club Amer­ica. A great piece of work from Stu­art Holden set up an easy fin­ish for Nate Jaqua, and Dwayne DeRossario and Joseph Ngwenya really frus­trated Club America’s defend­ers all night, cap­ping off what was a dom­i­nant per­for­mance in a 1–0 vic­tory. Eddie Robin­son and Craig Waibel also deserve praise for an out­stand­ing night for the Dynamo.