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New York Red Bulls II Downed by Charlotte Independence 2-0

May 1, 2016 - United Soccer League Championship (USL)
New York Red Bulls II News Release


HARRISON, N.J. - New York Red Bulls II fell to Charlotte Independence 2-0 on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Red Bull Arena. Red Bulls II fought hard for a comeback, but could not cancel out the Independence's two first half goals.

The result is New York's first loss of the season and brings both their five-game unbeaten run and their 418-minute shutout streak to an end. New York stands in third place of the Eastern Conference with a 3-1-2 record.

Gideon Baah, who was loaned to Red Bulls II to regain his match fitness after suffering a hamstring injury earlier this season, started and played 45 minutes in the match.

Red Bulls II's first chance came when forward Anatole Abang sent a pass through the middle for midfielder Alex Muyl in the 10th minute, but Charlotte 'keeper Cody Mizell collected it at the top of the box before Muyl could arrive.

Charlotte's first goal came in the 13th minute, when forward Caleb Calvert flicked a cross from Brown on the left to midfielder Enzo Martinez who buried it in the left corner.

In the 33rd minute, Charlotte logged their second goal after New York failed to clear a deflected shot that fell to defender Patrick Slogic inside the box.

Rafael Diaz stopped a possible third for Charlotte in the 37th minute as he dove to direct out another Martinez shot from the left. NYRB II's goalkeeper made four saves in the match.

New York had their best chance to get on the board in the 44th minute when a point-blank save on forward Brandon Allen rebounded to Muyl, who sent the ball just over the crossbar.

Finding their momentum in the second half, Mizell was forced to make a low save against New York midfielder Derrick Etienne Jr. on a cross from Abang in the 57th minute.

New York almost got one back in the 87th minute when defender Justin Bilyeu put in a ball from outside the 18-yard box that Mizell needed to tip over the bar.

Red Bulls II returns to action on Saturday, May 7 when they travel to Highmark Stadium to take on the Pittsburgh Riverhounds at 7 p.m. ET.

Discipline Summary:

CLT: Patrick Slogic, Caution 28'

CLT: Zach Pfeffer, Caution 90'

Scoring Summary (Assists in parenthesis):

CLT: Enzo Martinez (Caleb Calvert) 13'

CLT: Patrick Slogic 33'

Lineups:

NY: Rafael Diaz, Justin Bilyeu, Gideon Baah (Stefano Bonomo, 46'), Zach Carroll, Konrad Plewa (Sean Teixeira, 85'), Sean Davis, Tyler Adams, Derrick Etienne Jr., Alex Muyl, Brandon Allen, Anatole Abang (Junior Flemmings, 72')

Subs not used: Sam Ilin, Aaron Long, Noah Powder, Dan Metzger

CLT: Cody Mizell, Bilal Duckett, Patrick Slogic, Dennis Castillo, Henry Kalungi, Jun Marques Davidson, Yann Ekra, Enzo Martinez (Jorge Herrera, 67'), Caleb Calvert (Zach Pfeffer, 59'), Brian Brown, David Estrada (Joel Johnson, 85')

Subs not used: Kyle Renfro, Jack Metcalf, Lewis Hilton, Alec Bartlett

New York Red Bulls II Quote Sheet

Red Bulls II head coach John Wolyniec

On if the pressure from Charlotte was the reason that they came out flat:

I think it's a combination of a lot of things. You have to give credit to Charlotte, they came out and a lot of teams have a lot of energy coming here. They're excited, they have a very good squad if you look at that roster, and we came out definitely flat and it's just disappointing for me because of our focuses before the game was a fast start so to come out that slow and give up that many chances straight away in the game was disappointing. Especially when we've been so good defensively over such a long stretch, so all good streaks come to an end and that one came crashing down.

On what Charlotte did better than previous teams to break Red Bulls II down:

I'm tempted to say everything. I just think that our approach and our start was not good enough and I preached to our guys that teams come here and we're playing in Red Bull Arena and they're going to be excited. They're going to come out and try to get after you and prove that they can play with you and we weren't ready for that for some reason.

On what he told his team at halftime:

My message was that the first half wasn't good enough and you have another half to prove that you're better than that. I think some of it was that Charlotte took their foot off the gas and that allowed us to come after them a little bit and some of it was that we couldn't have played much worse in the first half. It was that combination of things that made us look like we were doing a bit more in the second half.

On how the loaned players integrated into the team:

It's always tough, it's tricky and everybody's goal before the game is different and when you have guys coming down, like Gideon [Baah] coming back from injury and we're just trying to give him some time and experience so for him we are happy that he got through 45 minutes. For a lot of the other guys, it's not what we expected and it's not always easy when the personnel changes a lot, but at the same time we have high standards for those guys and they didn't quite meet it today.

On Stefano Bonomo at center back:

That was his first experience at center back in the game. You know it's - we're looking at it and he's been training there for weeks with the team and we're just going to see how it is and maybe we continue to do that and maybe we don't. He has some quality stuff that we need at that position and I've seen how quickly he can adjust. So credit to him that he's committed to it and that he's willing to take a look at this from a different angle and we'll see where it goes from there.

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