(NPSL 2017) Boston City 1v1 New York Cosmos B








Saturday 29th April 2017
Brother Gilbert Stadium, Massachusetts,   Attendance - 
Cosmos B opened their NPSL campaign with a draw at Boston City in windy conditions. Boston had a good spell early on and were rewarded with a goal. Cosmos lost the ball in their own half and the ball was played to Batista who showed some good footwork to earn him a shooting opportunity and he tucked an effort just inside the post past Zobeck.
New York were stung into action and almost replied straight away as Coutinho found Thierjung beyond the Boston defence and he found the net, only to be called offside. But the same 2 players linked up again minutes later to good effect and this time the flag stayed down and Thierjung  produced a fine chip to level the scores.
Straight from the restart Boston had a chance to regain the lead but a well struck effort went narrowly wide.
With the wind behind them Boston were eager to take a lead into half time and almost edged ahead when a well taken free-kick struck the bar and the overhead kick from the rebound went straight at Zobeck.
Boston continued to press and in the 38th minute a Boston player almost stole in at the far post after a cross from the right but the angle was too tight and the effort went wide.
Boston continued their superiority into the 2nd half and came desperately close to scoring early after the interval but Cosmos survived. But now with the advantage of the wind behind them Cosmos started to have more attacking play and there was a scramble in the Boston area just before the hour mark when a free-kick was headed across goal but the Boston keeper managed to smother the ball.
Cosmos had another sight of goal later in the half but from a tight angle the ball was blazed well off target.
Tensions flared s the game wore on which did not help the fluidity of the game and in the final stages it was Boston who were pressing harder for a winner, but with no further scoring the game ended level.

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