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2nd Kiwi sent off in Nth America within a few days. Gets a straight red card at 30 mins (1-0). Soft. Little jab into the kidneys. Didn't stop Minny who go onto win 4-0.
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Plays full game, which finishes 3-3.
Then steps up in the shootout as 3rd pen taker for Minnesota, converts his kick, the following 2 Minny players fail to convert, but still MU go on to win the shootout 4-3. Into the Leagues Cup Round of 16, to play Liga MX's Toluca.
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Leagues Cup Round of 16, Minnesota hosting Liga MX's Toluca. Boxy starting with Minny leading 2-1 after 65 mins.
Edit - some late drama, it's gone to pens. Finished 2-2 in NT (no ET). Minny with a guy sent off at 73 mins. Toluca convert the resultant pen, taken by their Brazilian keeper! The Brazilian GK also conveerted his pen in the shootout. It stays 2-2 until FT
In pen shootout Boxy is Minny's 2nd pen taker and he converts. That's the 3rd pen he converted in 3 shootouts for Minny this year (US Open Cup & 2 Leagues Cup shootouts). If AWs are ever in a shootout - which realistically is unlikely any time soon - put M Boxall on the list of takers! Cool as ice.
Edit 2 - Minny win the shootout 4-2. They will play Nashville in the quarters. So far 5 of the 6, Round of 16 games have gone to pens.
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Full game in a 1-1 draw. Not quite the Chatham Cup final, but Minny's Canadian keeper St Clair goes forward in the 93rd min to provide the assist for Minny's dramatic late equaliser.
Capatin Boxy with an early 14th min open header opportunity from a free kick, he should really have done better with
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Highlights below. Plenty of Boyd in this one. Two pre assists along with the assist. Also drew the 2nd yellow, to see the Minny player sent off.
Galaxy 13th (33 pts) still a chance of a playoff spot in MLS's bloated playoff system (9 teams in each conference), Minny drop to 10th (37 pts). A 4-3 scoreline seems pretty typical of how the Galaxy play (conceded most goals this MLS season, Western Conference).
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Boxy suits up. He's started 29 of 32 MLS games for Minny this season. Mr Dependable.
Big game for him & his team mates away to glamour oufit LAFC (Carlos Vela & co). LAFC without a single American in their starting 11.
Minny (11th in the West) 3 pts off playoff spots with 3 games left. They host that other LA team the Galaxy & Boyd this weekend. Two losses, and Minny's MLS season would likely be over before Boxall heads off to join up with the AWs.
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Minny (38 pts) get thumped 5-1.
Boxy off at 66 mins (4-1). Unusual for him to be subbed off early, but he was part of a double sub so hopefully not injury related. Maybe with that scoreline a chance to spell him with a now huge game against the Galaxy (35 pts) only a few days away. Must win for both teams to be any chance of making playoffs.
Glamour boys Galaxy always score a few, but the have the worse defence of the 29 MLS teams. 61 goals conceded in 32 games.
Full game Boxall. Minny a chance of the playoffs. Their crucial last game is 22nd Oct, a few days after the Socceroos, so coach Heath may put pressure on Bazeley to limit Boxy's mins in the FIFA window.
Not a great season for Minnys defensive lineup. Boxall hasn't been at his best this season unfortunately. Maybe an underlying injury, partnership issues or tactical change that just hasn't worked. He could be in trouble. Hope I'm wrong.
Not a great season for Minnys defensive lineup. Boxall hasn't been at his best this season unfortunately. Maybe an underlying injury, partnership issues or tactical change that just hasn't worked. He could be in trouble. Hope I'm wrong.
Well he has a new gaffer now (or will for start of next season). From Flying Kiwis.
The Loon sacked their long-time manager Adrian Heath after the LAFC game (5-2 loss). The Englishman is the only coach the team has ever had since they wre founded in 2017. Boxy and several others were pretty loyal to Heath although it had felt like perhaps the team was a tad too stuck in their ways this season (particularly with their poor start, which stemmed from a lack of goal-scoring).
Also Heath was the bloke who played silly buggers in keeping Boxall out of the 2021 Olympics after he’d been named so yeah. To be fair, Danny Hay gets as much if not more blame for that since he had the chance to pick a replacement and didn’t go for it. Efficient injury management and NZ Football are long-time foes, as we all know. Anyway, such an emphatic goal-scoring bounce-back (5-2 win over Galaxy) in the first game under the interim boss does kinda vindicate the decision to sack the bloke, even if he did a pretty great job with this team on the whole.