Bongokuhle Hlongwane returns to Minnesota United starting lineup
After a full day of training Sunday, he returned to his spot on the Loons' front line for their playoff opener.
Bongokuhle Hlongwane (displayed against Portland in July) was back in the beginning 11 against FC Dallas on Monday. Minnesota Joined went 1-3-1 with Hlongwane out in view of a knee injury.
FRISCO, TEXAS – Minnesota Joined forward Bongokuhle Hlongwane got back to his group’s beginning 11 on Monday night at FC Dallas interestingly he last played, against exactly the same group on Sept. 3.
FC Dallas scored three objectives in those days in confounding progression at Allianz Field, four minutes that Crackpots mentor Adrian Heath named “franticness.”
Without Hlongwane, the Crackpots went 1-3-1. That was essential for a more extended stretch in which they went 0-5-1 preceding beating Vancouver at home on Choice Day to make the end of the season games for a fourth sequential season.
Hlongwane prepared completely with the group on Saturday. Thereafter, Heath said Hlongwane would be qualified to play, however wouldn’t ensure he’d begin in a right-going after spot that recently obtained Mender Garcia filled in his nonattendance.
Garcia scored one objective in five beginnings without Hlongwane, whom Heath commended for assisting the group’s 8-1-2 pre-fall with running before that late-season breakdown.
“Bongi was in especially great structure,” said Heath, who rejoined sound Robin Lod and Wil Trapp in Monday’s beginning midfield also.
Who makes what
Nut cases star playmaker Emanuel Reynoso stays the club’s most generously compensated player even before his new, further developed agreement starts next season, as indicated by MLS players’ pay rates distributed by its association.
Reynoso is procuring $1.07 million this season, the Crackpots’ just seven-figure compensation.
Adaptable midfielder Lod isn’t a long ways behind with $952,496 all out pay, in compensation data ordered as of Sept. 2.
The Crackpots have six different players procuring more than $500,000: Romain Metanire $819,250, Luis Amarilla $785,000, Trapp $784,875, Bakaye Dibassy $743,125, Michael Boxall $655,307 and Hlongwane $580,250.
Other intriguing pieces: Beginning focal midfielder Kervin Arriaga procures $103,667 while summer endorser and little-utilized left back Alan Benitez is making a star evaluated $437,250 this season.
Rookie Garcia’s yearly compensation is $322,313 while second-year assailant Franco Fragapane makes $257,496.
Previous SuperDraft first-round picks Hassani Dotson and Dayne St. Clair were endorsed to new agreements that started this season: Dotson is making $457,500 while beginning goalkeeper St. Clair is acquiring $321,875.
Voyaging show
Ten relatives and companions ventured out from Northern California to rural Dallas to see as of late gained Jonathan Gonzalez likely play his most memorable MLS season finisher game.
An assigned substitute Monday, Gonzalez was brought up in St Nick Rosa — home to local Minnesotan and celebrated illustrator Charles Schulz later in his life — before he endorsed at age 14 with renowned Mexican Liga MX club Monterrey.
“My father had the joy to meet him,” Gonzalez said.
Schulz has hockey fields — a most loved hobby of his — named for him or his creation Snoopy in both St. Paul and St Nick Rosa. Schulz kicked the bucket in St Nick Rosa in February 2000, 10 months after Gonzalez was brought into the world there.
“We would go there [Snoopy’s Home Ice arena] when I was 8, 9 years of age,” he said. “The ‘Peanuts’ fellow what not, right?”
Down to eight
New York beat Entomb Miami 3-0 on Monday night, passing on the Crackpots Dallas champ to finish the field for the gathering elimination rounds. Cincinnati visits Philadelphia on Thursday and NYCFC plays at Montreal on Sunday in the East. In the West, LA Cosmic system visits rival LAFC on Thursday while Monday night’s victor plays Sunday at Austin.
