PITTSBURGH \u2013 Albert Dikwa recorded a goal and assist to lead Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC to a 2-0 victory against Miami FC at Highmark Stadium on Saturday night as Charles Ahl also found the net for the hosts to earn their second consecutive league victory.<\/p>\n
The hosts had a pair of chances early on as Eliot Goldthorp\u2019s free kick was deflected over the crossbar by the defensive wall and Sam Bassett had a snap-shot from 14 yards well saved by Miami\u2019s Felipe Rodriguez. The visitors also went close just past the half-hour mark when Gerald D\u00edaz fired a good half-volley that was turned away by Pittsburgh\u2019s Nico Campuzano to send the game to the break scoreless.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh took the lead just four minutes into the second half, however, when Perrin Barnes floated cross from the right side of the penalty area set up Dikwa at the far post for a spectacular diving header. The Cameroonian forward then played provider with 17 minutes to go as he received a pass from Goldthorp moving into the penalty area and then laid off possession for Ahl to shoot first-time into the top-right corner to wrap up the regular.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC \u2013 The Hounds earned a comfortable victory as Albert Dikwa got back into the scoring groove, finding the net for the first time since April 18 against Detroit City. Pittsburgh looked the brighter of the two sides with the Hounds\u2019 17 shots their highest total in a USL Championship game this season.<\/p>\n
Miami FC \u2013 Without both Eloy Room and J\u00fcrgen Locadia, away on World Cup duty with Cura\u00e7ao the visitors were unable to build on their remarkable victory last weekend against Louisville City, recording a season-low five shots against Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2013 Albert Dikwa recorded a goal and assist to lead Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC to a 2-0 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,115],"class_list":["post-290681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}