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Leeds score six, goals for Wright and Cardoso
Monday’s USMNT players abroad roundup starts in the Championship, where Haji Wright’s Coventry City lost 3-1 at Plymouth Argyle. Trailing from goals in the 40th and 43rd, Wright scored for Coventry in the 45th. Plymouth added a third goal in the 65th minute.
Ethan Horvath was in goal for Cardiff City’s 1-1 home draw with Oxford United. Yousef Salech put Cardiff up in the 56th and Oxford United equalized in the 79th minute. Daryl Dike’s West Brom lost 3-1 at home to Derby County, falling behind to goals in the 7th and 30th. Adam Armstrong pulled a goal back for West Brom in the 70th, but Derby scored again in the 87th minute.
Brenden Aaronson’s Leeds United beat Lynden Gooch’s Stoke City 6-0 at home to seal promotion to the Premier League. Gooch subbed on at halftime and Aaronson subbed out in the 86th. Joel Piroe scored for Leeds in the 6th, 8th, and 20th with Junior Firpo making it 4-0 in the 26th. Piroe scored again in the 41st and Wilfired Gnoto added a goal in the 59th minute.
Josh Sargent’s Norwich City lost 3-1 at Millwall. Trailing 2-0 from goals in the 8th and 39th, Norwich’s Shane Duffy pulled a goal back four minutes into first-half stoppage time. Millwall scored again in the 69th minute. Caleb Wiley’s Watford lost 1-0 at Portsmouth to a 25th minute goal. Watford’s Kelvin Keben saw red in the 57th minute.
Aidan Morris’s Middlesbrough lost 2-1 at Sheffield Wednesday. Boro went up from a Finn Azaz goal in the 11th. Sheffield Wednesday equalized in the 54th and went ahead in the 89th minute. In League One, Donovan Pines’s Barnsley drew 1-1 at home with Peterborough United. Trailing from the 17th, Jonathan Russell equalized for Barnsley a minute into stoppage time.
Johnny Cardoso’s Real Betis won 3-1 at Girona in La Liga. Cardoso opened the scoring in the 6th, Antony doubled the lead in the 39th, and Isco made it 3-0 in the 42nd. Girona pulled a goal back in the 85th minute.
Konrad De La Fuente subbed on a minute into stoppage time for Lausanne’s 2-0 home win over Lugano in the Swiss Super League. Fousseni Diabate put Laussane up in the 27th and Morgan Poaty doubled the lead in the 38th minute.
The Serie A and Serie B schedules were postponed due to the death of Pope Francis.
On Tuesday, Marlon Fossey’s Standard Liege lost 1-0 at home to Oud-Heverlee Leuven in Belgium’s Pro League. Oud-Heverlee Leuven scored in the 78th minute.
Bryan Reynolds subbed out in the 65th for Westerlo’s 3-2 win at Mechelen. Matija Frigan put Westerlo up in the 28th and an own-goal leveled the score in the 30th. Mechelen saw red in the 41st. Westerlo retook the lead in the 64th from an Issai Sakamoto goal and Thomas Van Den Keybus scored in the 77th minute.
George Bello subbed on in the 67th for LASK’s 4-1 win at Klagenfurt in the Austrian Bundesliga. Sascha Horvath put LASK up in the 12th and Maximilian Entrup doubled the lead in the 15th. Klagenfurt scored in the 31st. Entrup scored again in the 54th and Florian Flecker finished off the LASK goals in the 84th minute.
Wednesday saw Weston McKennie and Tim Weah’s Juventus lose 1-0 at Parma in Serie A. McKennie subbed out in the 57th and Weah subbed on in the 86th. Parma scored a minute into first-half stoppage time. With 33 games played, Juventus is in 5th-place tied on points with 6th-place Lazio and a point behind 4th-place Bologna.
Christian Pulisic subbed out in the 78th for AC Milan’s 3-0 win at Inter Milan to advance 3-1 on aggregate to the Coppa Italia final. Luka Jovic opened the scoring on the night in the 36th and doubled the AC Milan lead in the 49th minute.
Matko Miljevic subbed out in the 67th for Huracan’s 0-0 home draw with America de Cali in the group stage of the Copa America. Huracan put six shots on goal to one for America de Cali.
Did Not Play: Chris Richards and Matt Turner (Crystal Palace 2 – Arsenal 2), Yunus Musah (AC Milan 3 – Inter Milan 0)
Thursday had Richy Ledezma and Malik Tillman’s PSV winning 3-1 at Twente in the Eredivisie. Tillman subbed on in the 69th and Ledezma subbed out in the 78th. Twente went up in the 1st and Ivan Perisic equalized for PSV in the 11th. PSV took the lead in the 53rd from a Guus Til goal and Luuk de Jong scored in the 57th. Ledezma saw yellow in the 64th minute. After 30 games played, PSV is in 2nd-place on 67 points, six points behind leaders Ajax with four games remaining in the season.
Johnny Cardoso’s Real Betis beat Valladolid 5-1 at home in La Liga. Jesus Rodriguez put Real Betis up in the 17th with Valladolid equalizing in the 41st. Cucho Hernandez returned the Real Betis lead in the 64th, Isco doubled it in the 66th, and Roman Perraud made it 4-1 in the 84th. Abde Ezzalzouli finished off the Real Betis scoring in the 90th minute. Real Betis is 5th in La Liga with 54 points after 33 games, two points ahead of 6th-place Villarreal who have a game in hand and six points behind 4th-place Athletic.
Alan Sonora subbed on in the 82nd for Cerro Porteno’s 2-2 home draw against Sporting Cristal in group G of the Copa Libertadores. Trailing from the 37th, Cecilio Dominguez equalized for Cerro Porteno in the 42nd and Federico Carrizo scored in the 44th. Sporting Cristal equalized two minutes into stoppage time.
Vancouver took a 2-0 lead at home over Inter Miami in the first-leg of their Concacaf Champions Cup semifinal series. Brian White opened the scoring in the 24th and Sebastian Berhalter doubled the lead in the 85th minute.
Did Not Play: Taylor Booth (Twente 1 – PSV 3), Sergino Dest and Ricardo Pepi (PSV 3 – Twente 1)
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