until midfielder Shalrie Joseph was sent off with a second yellow card in the 74th minute.
• It took the Fire just seven minutes to pull even. Gonzalo Segares stepped forward from the backline and let fly from all of 30 yards, hitting a dipping, knuckling effort that eluded the grasp of goalkeeper Matt Reis and sailed into the goal.
• Just five minutes, Chicago sealed their comeback. Tomasz Frankowski settled a Marco Pappa cross and fired from close range. Reis stopped the first effort, but wasn't able to secure the loose ball, and Conde stabbed home the rebound for his first MLS goal and the game-winner.
• Fire head coach Denis Hamlett made two changes to the team that defeated Chivas USA 1-0 the previous weekend. Cuauhtemoc Blanco returned from suspension and came back into the team along with Andy Herron, in place of Chris Rolfe and Patrick Nyarko for a new strike partnership.
• Here's Hamlett's team: (4-4-1-1): Jon Busch - Brandon Prideaux (Mike Banner 78), Wilman Conde, Bakary Soumare, Gonzalo Segares - Marco Pappa, Logan Pause, John Thorrington, Justin Mapp (Chris Rolfe 61) - Cuauhtemoc Blanco - Andy Herron (Tomasz Frankowski 86). Substitutes Not Used: C.J. Brown, Stephen King, Lider Marmol, Nick Noble
• "[The ejection] definitely changed the game. We ended up taking advantage of that situation, where we had the 11 on 10," Hamlett said. "Our guys moved the ball pretty well. We had a little bit of luck on the first goal, but sometimes you need that."
TEAM NEWS
• The Fire had come back from deficits to grab ties on a couple of occasions during the campaign, but it was the first time they had come all way back for a victory.
• "We said to our guys we have to make sure that we play 90 minutes tonight. It's a credit to this group; they've been working hard and they left it all on the field tonight," Hamlett said. "It's good to see our guys get the three points tonight, because I thought we played well enough to deserve the points."
• Twellman's goal was the first allowed by the Fire in 300 minutes, since the Abdus Ibrahim goal for Toronto FC on July 12.
• "I think we put ourselves in a hole with being behind so early. We were a little too casual to start, which led to the corner kick. (New England) has been dangerous all season, especially the last month. All their goals seem to come off set pieces," Hamlett said. "We got behind, but I think our guys felt that we were playing well, we were moving the ball. We weren't quite in synch in the final third, but we just kept moving the ball and kept having patience and it paid off in the last 10 minutes."
• It was the first time in seven seasons the Revolution had been swept in a season series by a conference opponent.
• "This was a big win for us on the road," said Chris Rolfe. "We swept them this year, and that's huge for us, especially in terms of gaining confidence going into the playoffs and potentially meeting up with them again at some point; that definitely helps us mentally."
D.C. UNITED
D.C. United suffered through a difficult afternoon at Giants Stadium, taking the lead before the New York Red Bulls roared back with four goals for a 4-1 win. United fell back into a four-way tie for fourth place in the Eastern Conference with 25 points from 18 matches, along with Toronto FC, the Kansas City Wizards and the Red Bulls, now six points behind third-place Columbus.
LAST MATCH
• The Red Bulls hadn't won in five games, but were featuring all of their new midseason additions together for the first time. D.C. United had rebounded from a disastrous SuperLiga campaign in their last match, defeating the Kansas City Wizards for their fifth league win in their last six outings.
• United took the lead on a rainy day after just 16 minutes. Luciano Emilio stayed in possession while stumbling long enough to find Fred, and his cross from the right found Jaime Moreno all alone, who headed it home for the 120th league goal of his MLS career.
• But the Red Bulls had pulled in front by the interval. In the 27th minute, Juan Pablo Angel bent a free kick over the wall and into the upper left corner for the leveller, then just before the stroke of halftime, a Dave van den Bergh cross from the left was cleared only into the center of the area, and Mike Magee quickly turned it home for his second goal.
• Five minutes after the break, Angel hit for his second. Racing back to claim a looping back pass header, Angel beat United goalkeeper Zach Wells to the ball and poked it over him, the ball bouncing into the goal just past the efforts of Devon McTavish to clear.
• The Red Bulls completed the rout of their Atlantic Cup rivals -- and avenged as earlier 4-1 loss to United -- in the 87th minute when Sinisa Ubiparipovic slotted home a Jorge Rojas pass from the left for his first career MLS goal.
• D.C. United head coach Tom Soehn made no changes to the team that defeated the Kansas City Wizards 2-0 the previous weekend at RFK Stadium.
• Here's Soehn's team (4-4-2): Zach Wells - Bryan Namoff, Devon McTavish, Pat Carroll (Gonzalo Martinez 56), Marc Burch - Fred, Clyde Simms, Joe Vide (Rod Dyachenko 67), Ivan Guerrero - Jaime Moreno (Santino Quaranta 46), Luciano Emilio. Substitutes Not Used: Quavas Kirk, Gonzalo Peralta, Craig Thompson, James Thorpe
• "I thought we came out with some energy and we were knocking the ball around well up until the point where we scored," Soehn said. "We kind of let the foot off the gas a little bit and I thought we started to give them a little life."
TEAM NEWS
• After three losses in three SuperLiga games - and a loss to the Houston Dynamo in a delayed game along the way - United felt the Wizards win got them pointed back in the right direction.
• "You can't afford to make mistakes, you're going to get punished," said Jaime Moreno. "We had a good example today. For me, very unprofessional mistakes. We made mistakes, but at this point in the season we can't keep making mistakes like that."
• Down 2-1 at the half, any comeback was hampered as Moreno was forced off at the interval. "Jaime's back was hurting, it was hard on him," said Soehn. "Unfortunately, we were chasing the game down so we wanted to match a couple of guys and unfortunately it didn't work that way. We had to try to get back into the game."
• But on Tuesday, United advanced to the U.S. Open Cup final for the third time in club history, first since 1997, with a 3-1 victory against the New England Revolution at RFK Stadium.
• Luciano Emilio headed United into the lead before the game was four minutes old, but Joe Germanese pounced on a poor clearance to level terms in the 34th minute. Santino Quaranta put United back into the lead in the 48th minute, and the game then changed in the 71st minute when Wells Thompson was sent off with a second caution. Emilio rounded off the victory with his second nine minutes from the end.
• Here's Soehn's team: Zach Wells; Gonzalo Martinez, Devon McTavish, Gonzalo Peralta, Bryan Namoff, Ivan Guerrero (Quavas Kirk 86), Clyde Simms, Santino Quaranta (Joe Vide 79), Fred (Mike Zaher 88), Luciano Emilio (Rod Dyachenko 89), Jaime Moreno
• "I think the biggest thing, especially coming off of Sunday's game, was to come out and get a result here," said D.C. midfielder Clyde Simms. "We knew that they didn't bring their full squad, but at the same time we didn't want to take them too lightly. I think this was good to maybe give us some confidence going into our game on Saturday against Chicago."
• United will take on the USL1 Charleston Battery in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final, to be played Sept. 3 at RFK Stadium. The Battery defeated the Seattle Sounders in a penalty kick shootout Tuesday, after the teams played to a 1-1 draw over 120 minutes. United last played in the final in 1997, losing on penalties to the Dallas Burn; their lone Open Cup title came in 1996, when they defeated Rochester at RFK Stadium.
