USL Playoffs: Steve Guppy’s Goal Lifts Rhinos

Steve Guppy is one of two play­ers capped by England’s National Team at the senior inter­na­tional level to be play­ing his club foot­ball in the United States cur­rently: the other is David Beck­ham. Guppy, now 38 scored the game win­ning goal Fri­day night as the Rochester Rhi­nos beat the Charleston Bat­tery in the first leg of their USL-1 play­off series 2–0. The sec­ond leg will be held in Charleston Sun­day night and will be braod­cast nation­ally on FSC.

In the other play­off matches Fri­day night, the road weary Mon­treal Impact suc­comed in Seat­tle to the Sounders 2–1. Thanks to the CONCACAF Cham­pi­ons League, Mon­treal is in a period of play­ing 13 matches in 29 days. The return leg is at Stade Saputo Sun­day night. Van­cou­ver beat Min­nesota 2–0 as well.

The Reg­u­lar Sea­son cham­pion Puerto Rico Islanders recieved a bye to the semi­fi­nal round of the playoffs.