Wright-Phillips gets Golden Boot, Red Bulls win the east

“It’s a unique feeling, you know, because it’s unfortunate that our players didn’t get the feeling of coming off of our home field and getting the applause they deserved for the season”.

Bradley Wright-Phillips scored twice for NY. For Wright-Phillips, the individual award is nice, but he says winning a championship is more important. “I want to be known as a victor, and when you get into some teams, you have different guys in a group, and I want to be that guy who’ll do what it takes to get you the win”.

The goal would stand up as both the match-winner and the one that secured BWP his second MLS Golden Boot. In addition, Sacha Kljestan has recorded 19 assists, which would become a franchise record for most assists in a season. He finished the season with 24 goals, three shy of his 27 goals scored in the 2014 season when he also won the Golden Boot. “I think that shows good leadership, it shows we are a team that’s in this thing together”. “But we still had to get a couple of saves and this is what it’s like when you have the lead when you are on the road”.

Jesse Marsch could have chosen to rest his players given the fact the Red Bulls had a virtual hammerlock on first place in the East heading into Sunday, but instead he trotted out his first-choice lineup. The Union’s hated rival the New York Red Bulls made the 2006 playoffs with 39 points in 32 matches, a 1.22 points per game average. The Flyers were the only team to make the playoffs a year ago. We can’t change it and we have a ticket to the real season, as I call it. Games are going to be different.

If there has been a knock against the Red Bulls, even during their unbeaten streak, it has been their penchant for surrendering goals when holding leads. The final also served as the final NYRB II game, for now, at Red Bull Arena. We know we have a good team.

Red Bulls players cheer on Red Bulls II in the second half of their 5-1 win in the USL Cup final.

Adams, Allen and Etienne were three players on loan from the main Red Bulls roster.

“It feels great”, Wolyniec said. “I was proud before the game”.

“A lot of friends from school reached out to me”, Adams said. Toronto picked up a 3-2 win, but NYCFC’s victory kept it from a top-two spot in the conference. They not only were the best team in the USL this season, they broke all time records for success, points, goals, and wins to name a few.

But goals from Benny Feilhaber and Graham Zusi guided Sporting KC to the win they needed to finish fifth, ending Portland’s title defence in the process.

RSL ended the season in sixth, despite losing 2-1 to Seattle, who finished two points better off in fourth.

None of Wright-Phillips 24 goals this season came from the penalty spot; all of them were scored inside the 18-yard box.