Winners and Losers: Lundt's heroics save St. Louis in USOC win
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The story in brief
14-second readThe US Open Cup final between Columbus Crew and St. Louis CITY went to penalties after a stalemate in regular time, with GOAL reporting on the match. St. Louis CITY won the cup title, with reserve goalkeeper Benjamin Lundt saving two penalties, as they successfully converted all five of their penalty kicks.
The full picture
The US Open Cup final between Columbus Crew and St. Louis CITY went to penalties after a stalemate in regular time, with GOAL reporting on the match.
St. Louis CITY won the cup title, with reserve goalkeeper Benjamin Lundt saving two penalties, as they successfully converted all five of their penalty kicks.
The match was described as 'gutsy' and 'poor' by GOAL, with both teams showing flaws, including St. Louis lacking ideas up front without Rafa Navarro and Columbus lacking a finisher.
At a glance
- Reporting status
- Reported
- Original publisher
- GOAL ↗
- Source published
- Clubs covered
- St. Louis City
Attributed publisher reporting. Kickjolly has not independently confirmed the claim.
Source context
For 70 minutes of the US Open Cup final, Columbus Crew battered St. This was not, in truth, the match that many would have expected. Yoann Damet wants his CITY side to control games with the ball, not beat off wave after wave without it. Still, they fought and held. And then, for 30 minutes, the Crew did the same, while St. Louis expressed some attacking ideas. Eventually, penalties were needed, where St. Louis - and reserve goalkeeper Benjamin Lundt - stepped up.
Source excerpt · GOAL
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