Juan Pablo Angel had two goals and an assist to lead the undermanned New York Red Bulls to a record-setting 3-0 win over the Chicago Fire on Thursday night. Teenage star Jozy Altidore also scored for the Red Bulls (5-1-2), who set an MLS record for the quickest two goals at the start of a game. And Altidore's goal -- which came just 55 seconds into the match -- was the fastest goal in franchise history.
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I watched a chunk of this game and boy was it brutal. The Red Bulls play like a Bruce Arena team and that's not good news for the rest of the league. They played the swarming blob shape and it had the Fire's rather static 3-5-2 completely overwhelmed. After watching a Villa match last fall in which Angel had a look at the open goal, tried to kick in the afterburners and found nothing there I made a bunch of wisecracks about how he was the slowet forward I'd seen in the Premiership all season. Obviously speed is not requisite to success in MLS. The Fire have lost 4 strait, they should sack Sarachan now. Unfortunately he'll be given until the end of the season and wil probably be rewarded for his mediocrity with a 5 year deal.
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