NY Red Bul players celebrate one of the goals scored.
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The Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín signed a great goal from a direct free kick this Saturday, but his team, Inter Miami fell 3-1 on their visit to the New York Red Bullsin a game in which the Spanish Alejandro Pozuelo was expelled with a direct red card for a very harsh foul on the Colombian Andrés Reyes.
The ‘Pipita’ Higuaín reached nine goals in the current season of Major League Soccer (MLS) by transforming a magnificent direct free kick from 18 meters that excited Phil Neville’s team.
It was the 19th minute and Inter Miami was going downhill, but everything would change ten minutes later, when the Spanish Alejandro Pozuelo saw a direct red card for giving, albeit unintentionally, a hard kick to Colombian Andrés Reyes in the chest.
Although the impact was less violent, it was a move similar to the well-known foul of the Dutchman Nigel De Jong against the Spanish Xabi Alonso in the 2010 World Cup final and the referee, after reviewing it on the screen at the foot of the field, expelled Pozuelo with a direct red card.
The New York team took advantage of this situation to come back on the scoreboard, driven by goals from Scotsman Lewis Morgan and Daniel Edelman.
Numerical equality was restored at minute 70, when Kyle Duncan was red for a naive foul on Sweden’s Christofer McVeyalthough that did not prevent the Red Bulls from sentencing their victory thanks to a goal from Caden Clark.
The Red Bulls accelerated towards the ‘playoffs’, while Inter Miami was seventh, in the last place that gives the ticket for the postseason.