DC United 1 -1 Nottingham Forest (4-3 on pens.)

By Michael Lynch
July 15 2004

The Reds have come out of the first game of their tour suffering a loss, after falling to a 4-3 defeat on penalties against one of America's top sides, DC United. Forest can come out of the match with some credit as they managed to hold a fully-fit and full-strength DC side to a draw in normal time.

Promising performance despite a loss.
Thursday 15th July 2004
Nottingham Forest lost 4-3 on penalties after a grueling game which ended in a 1-1 draw between themselves and DC United. The Reds have to come out of the game with a lot of credit, however- our boys were up against a fully-fit and full strength DC side who are mid-way through their league season. DC opened the scoring as hendrickson planted a header out of the keeper's reach after just nine minutes of this morning's game, but that was soon cancelled out by last season's top scorer, Andy Reid, who netted home just after the half-hour mark for The Trickies. Wonderkid Freddy Adu did not score during regulation time and was in fact denied a goal twice in the game, but he did manage to comfortably slot his spot-kick into the back of the Forest net with a superb example of cool, clinical finishing. But rather ironically, it was Forest old-boy Ben Olsen, who has a loan-spell with us during the dark-days of Platt, who converted the winning penalty for one of the best teams in America. The manager's reaction: "The fact that we emerged from the game without many injuries is all that really matters at this stage of pre-season." Joe Kinnear also spoke of DC: "I thought the team played well tonight as there are a lot of impressive players. In fact, I would like to take a few of them home with me." Forest: Gerrard, (Ward 45mins HT) Louis-Jean, Morgan, Thompson, Rogers (Robertson 72mins), Impey, (Jess 45mins HT), Evans( James 45mins HT), Reid, Commons (Gardner 84mins), Johnson (Capt), Taylor (Westcarr 77mins) Subs not used: Roche, Bopp, Doig, Cash, Beaumont, Biggins, Perch Scorers: Reid 31mins Booked: Evans 41mins, Robertson 84mins DC United: Rimando, Stokes ( Eskandarian 45mins HT), Prideaux, Hendrickson, Ara, Stewart (Capt) (Olsen 45mins HT), Carroll, (Namoff 45mins HT), Gros, Kovalenko (Quaranta 66mins), Adu, Moreno (Petke 45mins.) Subs not used: Nelsen, Perkins, Kuffour Scorer: Hendrickson 10 mins Booked: Stokes 20mins Referee: Mark Geiger Attn: 13,333 The Reds' next game is against Richmond Kickers 7:00pm KO at University Of Richmond on the 16th.

Promising performance despite a loss.

Thursday 15th July 2004

Nottingham Forest lost 4-3 on penalties after a grueling game which ended in a 1-1 draw between themselves and DC United. The Reds have to come out of the game with a lot of credit, however- our boys were up against a fully-fit and full strength DC side who are mid-way through their league season.

DC opened the scoring as hendrickson planted a header out of the keeper's reach after just nine minutes of this morning's game, but that was soon cancelled out by last season's top scorer, Andy Reid, who netted home just after the half-hour mark for The Trickies.

Wonderkid Freddy Adu did not score during regulation time and was in fact denied a goal twice in the game, but he did manage to comfortably slot his spot-kick into the back of the Forest net with a superb example of cool, clinical finishing.

But rather ironically, it was Forest old-boy Ben Olsen, who has a loan-spell with us during the dark-days of Platt, who converted the winning penalty for one of the best teams in America.

The manager's reaction:

"The fact that we emerged from the game without many injuries is all that really matters at this stage of pre-season."

Joe Kinnear also spoke of DC: "I thought the team played well tonight as there are a lot of impressive players. In fact, I would like to take a few of them home with me."

Forest: Gerrard, (Ward 45mins HT) Louis-Jean, Morgan, Thompson, Rogers (Robertson 72mins), Impey, (Jess 45mins HT), Evans( James 45mins HT), Reid, Commons (Gardner 84mins), Johnson (Capt), Taylor (Westcarr 77mins)
Subs not used: Roche, Bopp, Doig, Cash, Beaumont, Biggins, Perch
Scorers: Reid 31mins
Booked: Evans 41mins, Robertson 84mins

DC United: Rimando, Stokes ( Eskandarian 45mins HT), Prideaux, Hendrickson, Ara, Stewart (Capt) (Olsen 45mins HT), Carroll, (Namoff 45mins HT),
Gros, Kovalenko (Quaranta 66mins), Adu, Moreno (Petke 45mins.)
Subs not used: Nelsen, Perkins, Kuffour
Scorer: Hendrickson 10 mins
Booked: Stokes 20mins

Referee: Mark Geiger
Attn: 13,333

The Reds' next game is against Richmond Kickers 7:00pm KO at University Of Richmond on the 16th.

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