Bradley Wright-Phillips equals record in New York Red Bulls win

Oct 27, 2014 at 1.30am UK

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Bradley Wright-Phillips equals the MLS goalscoring record with 27 goals in a campaign as he scores twice to fire his side to a 2-0 win over Sporting Kansas City.

Published: October 27 2014 | 02:55

Last updated: October 29 2014 | 11:44

Bradley Wright-Phillips scored twice to fire the New York Red Bulls to a 2-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City as he tied the MLS single-season goalscoring record with 27 goals in the campaign.

The home side went close to opening the scoring in the eighth minute when Graham Zusi released the run of Dominic Dwyer, but his left-footed shot was well saved by Luis Robles.

Kevin Ellis was presented with a chance for Kansas City when Jacob Peterson picked him out with a pinpoint pass at the back post, but he couldn't control his effort, which went over the bar.

The Red Bulls took the lead when Wright-Phillips capitalised on an error from Ellis, and he showed composure to slot the ball past Eric Kronberg with a neat finish.

Wright-Phillips had the chance to notch his second goal of the game when he latched on to Lloyd Sam's cross towards the back post, but he got his header all wrong as he miscued his effort.

Paulo Nagamura tried to fire his side level when he beat a man on the edge of the box and fired a low effort at goal, which had to be pushed past the post by Robles.

The home side nearly found a leveller when Dwyer blasted a left-footed drive across the face of goal, but Sal Zizzo just couldn't get a foot to the ball.

Wright-Phillips equalled the record and doubled his side's lead when he outmuscled Aurelien Collin for the ball and placed it into the bottom corner, leaving Kronberg with no chance.

The striker had the chance to break the record when he was put through behind the Sporting defence, but Kronberg came out to narrow the angle and did enough to prevent him from finding the net.

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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