Ind Eleven thrashed Brooklyn 3:0 at Michael A. Carroll Stadium in the USL Championship Group Stage on Monday night. The hosts ran riot from the opening exchanges, with J. Blake firing in the first goal just eighteen minutes in. By then the visitors were already on the back foot, and the match quickly turned into a training exercise for Ind Eleven's attack.
Blake struck again in the fortieth minute before B. Rendon added a third thirty-three minutes into the half. E. Kizza made it four in the forty-eighth minute, though the official scoreline reads 3:0. Sharp was sent off in the seventy-fifth minute for a second booking, and the result was never in doubt after that. Stojanovic had picked up a yellow card on twenty-one minutes, one of few bright spots for Brooklyn in an otherwise dismal display.
Statistics
- Ind Eleven: 43% possession, 5 shots on target, 4 big chances created
- Brooklyn: 57% possession, 1 shot on target, 0 big chances created
Brooklyn held more of the ball at fifty-seven per cent, but possession meant little when they could not find the target. The visitors registered twelve attacks to Ind Eleven's one hundred and thirteen, yet their shot accuracy sat at a paltry nine per cent. By then the game was effectively over, and the statistics merely confirmed what the eye had seen.
Ind Eleven move closer to the play-off places, sitting sixth with twenty-three points after three wins and a draw in their last four. Brooklyn remain twelfth with seventeen points, their form having bottomed out with only four wins all season. The gap between the two sides has never looked wider, and this was a match decided in the first twenty minutes.
