Minnesota at Tampa Bay
MINNESOTA STARS FC
Friday, May 25, 2012 // 6:30 p.m. CDT Al Lang Stadium // St. Petersburg, Fla. 2012 NASL Regular Season Minnesota Stars FC Tampa Bay Rowdies Record: 4-3-0 (15 pts) Record: 3-2-3 (11 pts) 2nd place in NASL 4th place in PDL Most recent: W D W W W Most recent: D W L LW
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Goals scored Goals allowed Assists Shots/gm Corners/gm Fouls/gm Goals leader Assists leader Saves leader Players to watch
14 8 10 13.6 3.4 7.4 Walker (3), Del Do (2) Walker (3), Takada (2) VanOekel (16) Neil Hlavaty - #4 Martin Nunez - #9 Amani Walker - #11 Rodriguez (hernia)
Absences
10 10 8 13.1 5.9 11.5 Antoniuk (4) Ambersley, Savage (2) Attinella (37) Ambersley - #15 Antoniuk - #9 Mulholland - #8
Match Preview
TAMPA BAY ROWDIES*
MINNESOTA STARS FC*
How the Stars and Rowdies Compare
*NASL stats only. Does not contain US Open Cup statistics.
Stars vs. Rowdies/FCTB Series History 2012: First meeting In MIN: No games played In TAM: No games played
All-time: MIN record: 4-2-3 In MIN: MIN record: 2-1-1, 3 GF, 2 GA In TAM: MIN record: 2-1-2, 6 GF, 7 GA
Stars 0-0 FCTB NSC Stadium Yellow Cards TAM: Ambersley, Hayes Att: 2,019
Sept. 6, 2011
Stars 1-1 FCTB Al Lang Stadium Scoring Summary MIN: Cvilikas 54 TAM: King 59 Yellow Cards TAM: Ambersley Att: 3,001
FCTB 2-1 Stars NSC Stadium Scoring Summary TAM: Savage 22, Gyorio 77 MIN: Kallman 51 Yellow Cards MIN: Takada Att: 767
Sept. 24, 2010
Sept. 17, 2011
FCTB 2-0 Stars Al Lang Stadium Scoring Summary TAM: Millien 45, Hlavaty (og) 65 Yellow Cards MIN: Cosgriff TAM: Ukah, Yoshitake Att: 3,150
May 28, 2011
October 1, 2011
Stars 1-0 FCTB Al Lang Stadium NASL Playoffs Round One Scoring Summary MIN: Mulholland 27 Yellow Cards MIN: Altman, Cosgriff TAM: Arango Att: 3,003
August 13, 2011
Last six Stars-Rowdies/FCTB matches
Stars 3-1 FCTB Al Lang Stadium Scoring Summary MIN: Rodriguez 14, Bracalello 39, 44 TAM: Galindo 73 Yellow Cards MIN: Del Do, Gotsmanov TAM: Galindo Att: 3,006
Record: 3-3-1 Points: 12 Place: 2nd Scored-Allowed: 11-7 Assists: 8 Yellow cards: 13 Red cards: 1 Home att. avg: 1,355
2012 Stars
A look at how the 2012 Stars compare to the 2011 Stars through seven league games.
2011 Stars
At this point last season
After Friday night, Minnesota Stars FC’s difficult roadtrip will be half over. The Stars play at the fourth-placed Tampa Bay Rowdies Friday night at Al Lang Stadium. Originally scheduled for Saturday night, the game was moved a day earlier before the start of the season following the announcement of the US Men’s National Team’s friendly against Scotland in Jacksonville on Saturday night. The Stars have won three straight league games and four straight games overall. Last Saturday night, the Stars bounced back from an early goal with three unanswered scores in a 3-1 road win against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers. The team defeated the PDL’s Des Moines Menace 2-0 on Tuesday night in Iowa in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup second round and faced a quick turnaround to for Friday’s match with the Rowdies. Friday’s match will be streamed live via the internet on NASL.com and Ustream.tv/tampabayrowdies.
2012 Regular Season Schedule Date Opponent 4.07 Carolina RailHawks 4.14 at Fort Lauderdale Strikers 4.22 at FC Edmonton 4.28 at Atlanta Silverbacks 5.05 Atlanta Silverbacks 5.12 Carolina RailHawks 5.19 at Fort Lauderdale Strikers 5.25 at Tampa Bay Rowdies 6.02 at San Antonio Scorpions FC 6.09 at Carolina RailHawks 6.16 Tampa Bay Rowdies 6.23 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 6.30 at Tampa Bay Rowdies 7.04 Puerto Rico Islanders 7.07 Atlanta Silverbacks 7.12 Tampa Bay Rowdies 7.18 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 7.21 at Carolina RailHawks 7.28 at Puerto Rico Islanders 8.04 at FC Edmonton 8.11 San Antonio Scorpions FC 8.18 at Atlanta Silverbacks 8.25 FC Edmonton 9.01 San Antonio Scorpions FC 9.08 FC Edmonton 9.11 Puerto Rico Islanders 9.15 at Puerto Rico Islanders 9.23 at San Antonio Scorpions FC
Time/Score 0-0 D 0-0 D 4-3 W 3-3 D 2-0 W 2-1 W 3-1 W 6:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 6:00 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 6:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 6:00 p.m. CDT 6:30 p.m. CDT 8:05 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 6:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 7:30 p.m. CDT 6:30 p.m. CDT 6:00 p.m. CDT
NASL Regular Season Standings
Puerto Rico Record: 4-3-0 Minnesota Points: 15 San Antonio Place: 2nd Scored-Allowed: 14-8 Fort Lauderdale Tampa Bay Assists: 10 Edmonton Yellow cards: 12 Carolina Red cards: 1 Home att. avg: 4,184 Atlanta
GP 8 7 7 8 8 7 9 8
W 5 4 4 2 3 2 0 0
D 2 3 2 3 2 1 5 4
L 1 0 1 3 3 4 4 4
GD +11 +6 +2 -4 0 0 -7 -8
Pts 17 15 14 9 8 7 5 4