Sporting Census City on Wednesday scored twice in the last 20 minutes to turn two-grains deficiency in a draw 2–2 against hosts St. Louis City.
SKC’s Tim Libold and Dejan Joveljic offset the second-half-goal Saint Louis’s Cellio Pompeu and Sedric Tachertart before a half goal.
Both teams left a lot of opportunities on the pitch.
Sporting Casey (3-8–2, 11 digits) had 17 shots, but only five were on targets. Fortunately for visitors, two of them changed late.
St. Louis (2–6-5, 11 digits) had 16 shots, with seven goals, and now the nine-match wineless streak (0-6-3).
Pompeu almost gave St. Louis City a three -goal lead in 15 seconds in the second half, but his crossing shot went right near the post.
Both keepers rescued point-blank shots at the beginning of the second half. Roman Berki of St. Louis stopped Joveljik’s attempt in the 54th minute. A minute later, SKC’s John Pulskamp stopped a break -off attempt by Marcel Hortel.
Libold’s second career MLS met at the Sporting Board in the 71st minute on a goal. Manu Garcia left it before going to Libold, who took it to Daniel Sali, who withdrew it to Libold for an easy target.
Joveljik leveled the match in the 77th minute to a mounting header by Shapi Sulemanov from a long free kick.
St. Louis gained an lead on a magnificent goal by Pompeu in the 15th minute, which was the first of the season. Come away from a corner from behind Eric Thommy of SKC, Pompeu tilted a right -foot shot in the upper right corner of the box from outside the box.
This was St. Louis’s first lead after the start of 1-0 in the 4–1 defeat to Seattle Soundlers on 2 May. The target was only the 10th of the team’s season.
St. Louis raised the lead 2–0 in the 44th minute. Tomas Osteruk gathered the ball and fed the THart, which deformed the rear of John Pulskamp. This was only the third time in this season when St. Louis scored two goals in a match.
Sporting pulled back almost one in the first minute of the first half stoppage time when Joveljik attempted a shot from outside the 6-yard box, but Barki removed it.
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