Thierry Henry brace secures New York Red Bulls win over Montreal Impact

May 9, 2013 at 12.30am UK

A brace from Thierry Henry helps New York Red Bulls secure a 2-1 home victory over Montreal Impact.

Published: May 9 2013 | 02:55

Last updated: May 9 2013 | 13:34

A brace from Thierry Henry has helped New York Red Bulls secure a 2-1 home victory over Montreal Impact in the MLS.

The hosts started the game strongly and should have taken the lead in the 18th minute when Henry found space in the box but he could only fire his shot wide.

The former Arsenal man's miss almost came back to haunt him when Montreal came close to breaking the deadlock but Sanna Nyassi's effort smacked the crossbar and went over.

Nyassi was in again seconds later as he was put through behind the New York defence but he couldn't lift his shot over Luis Robles, who made a good stop.

The Red Bulls took the lead just before half time as Henry opened the scoring from close range, tapping Fabian Espindola's pass into the net after Eric Alexander had hit the bar.

New York could have doubled their lead after the break but Alexander was denied again, this time by Troy Perkins who saved his low headed effort and Juninho's rebound was cleared off the line by Matteo Ferrari.

The hosts had to wait until the 88th minute to get their second but it was worth the wait as Henry fired a spectacular overhead kick past Perkins from Markus Holgersson's flick-on from a corner.

The Impact got a goal back almost immediately as a loose pass from Robles went straight to Justin Mapp and he put through Marco di Vaio, who made no mistake finding the net, but it was too little too late as New York held out for the win.

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Eastern Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Inter Miami Inter Miami	34	22	8	4	79	49	30	74
2	Columbus Crew	34	19	9	6	72	40	32	66
3	FC Cincinnati Cincinnati	34	18	5	11	58	48	10	59
4	Orlando City	34	15	7	12	59	50	9	52
5	Charlotte FC Charlotte FC	34	14	9	11	46	37	9	51
6	New York City FC NY City	34	14	8	12	54	49	5	50
7	New York Red Bulls NY Red Bulls	34	11	14	9	55	50	5	47
8	CF Montreal Montreal	34	11	10	13	48	64	-16	43
9	Atlanta United Atlanta	34	10	10	14	46	49	-3	40
10	DC United	34	10	10	14	52	70	-18	40
11	Philadelphia Union Philadelphia	34	9	10	15	62	55	7	37
12	Toronto	34	11	4	19	40	61	-21	37
13	Nashville SC Nashville	34	9	9	16	38	54	-16	36
14	New England Revolution New England	34	9	4	21	37	74	-37	31
15	Chicago Fire	34	7	9	18	40	62	-22	30

Western Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Los Angeles FC Los Angeles	34	19	7	8	63	43	20	64
2	Los Angeles Galaxy LA Galaxy	34	19	7	8	69	50	19	64
3	Real Salt Lake Salt Lake	34	16	11	7	65	48	17	59
4	Seattle Sounders Seattle	34	16	9	9	51	35	16	57
5	Houston Dynamo Houston	34	15	9	10	47	39	8	54
6	Minnesota United Minnesota Utd	34	15	7	12	58	49	9	52
7	Colorado Rapids Colorado	34	15	5	14	61	60	1	50
8	Portland Timbers Portland	34	12	11	11	65	56	9	47
9	Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver	34	13	8	13	52	49	3	47
10	Austin FC Austin	34	11	9	14	39	48	-9	42
11	Dallas	34	11	8	15	54	56	-2	41
12	St Louis City	34	8	13	13	50	63	-13	37
13	Sporting Kansas City Kansas	34	8	7	19	51	66	-15	31
14	San Jose Earthquakes Earthquakes	34	6	3	25	41	78	-37	21