Final: Riverhounds 1, New York 0

• Who: Riverhounds (2-4-1), USL Championship vs. New York City FC (5-4-2), MLS
• What: U.S. Open Cup, Round of 32
• When: 7:10 p.m.
• Where: Highmark Stadium
• Weather: 66 degrees, cloudy
• TV: CBS Sports Network
• Radio: Radio Las Palmas, 92.9 FM HD2 (Spanish)
• Streaming: Paramount+
• Media notes: Riverhounds | New York City FC

► FOLLOW ALONG

• In the words of Sir Alex Ferguson 'Football, bloody hell'. 

• They think it's all over, it is now. Ydrach's header sends the Riverhounds into the last 16 in sensational style. 

• GOAL: THEY'VE WON IT!!! Ydrach rises highest at the back from Mertz's corner and he puts it into the far corner to send Highmark into raptures with the last touch of the game. Riverhounds, 1-0.

• Biasi takes a shot, it's deflected INCHES ahead of a sliding Griffin for a corner.. 

• Sub: Cavallo comes off the be replaced by Drew Baiera for New York. 

• Hounds have a corner... they couldn't could they? Nope, the corner goes out for a throw.

• We're into five minutes of added time. 

• Subs: Max Broghton and Illal Osumanu have come off to be replaced by Jason Bourgey and Perrin Barnes. You have to think that Lilley is saving Williams for extra time when they get the additional sub. That has to be the only reason he hasn't been brought on, especially with New York down to ten men. 

• HOW HAS FERNANDEZ MISSED THAT?!?!?! Wide open net from six yards out. Even the fans behind the net thought it was in, but it hit the side netting instead. BIG let off for the Hounds. 

• Agustín Ojeda rattles the crossbar for the visitors. This game has officially become end-to-end. 

• Subs: Perea has come off alongside Hannes Wolf to be replaced by Seymour Reid and Max Murray respectively. 

• Red card: New York City are down town ten men. Sample wins the ball from Strahinja Tanasijević who brings him down with the Hound through on goal. Clear red, no excuses there. And now the Hounds will smell blood. 

• Subs: In a stunning move, Larsen is replaced by Beto Ydrach and Garcia is replaced by Bradley Sample. 

• New York have a free kick in a dangerous position out wide, but it floats over everyone's head.

• I fear I'll jinx it in some way, but with twenty minutes to go it's only right to remind you guys that if it finishes level, there will be 30 minutes of extra time and then if scores are still level, we will go to penalties. 

• Griffin forces a corner after his shot from Garcia's through ball is well saved by Romero. The corner comes to nothing as Garcia puts the clearance over the roof of the hospitality stands. 

• Dick has just been spoken to by the referee, possibly a 'last warning' before he gets into trouble for time wasting. 

• Some good old-fashioned centre forward play from Larsen as he holds up the ball and feeds it to Garcia, who charged towards the box but shanked his effort well wide from outside the box. 

•  Dick called into action twice in quick succession, first going low to stop Andrés Perea's flicked header, then showing his reflexes to stop Fernandez from 12 yards out. New York have come flying out of the blocks here.  

• Subs: Both teams make a change. Jacquesson comes off (likely to make sure he doesn't burn him or his hamstring out) to be replaced by Brigham Larsen. For New York City, Birk Risa is off to be replaced be Julian Fernandez.

• Back underway in the second half. 

• That's the whistle and the Riverhounds are hanging in there, very much in this game as they enter the locker room level with their MLS counterparts. 

• We enter one minute of added time. 

• Garcia with a low, curling shot from the edge of the area that has Romero scrambling to push behind for a corner.

• Into the final five minutes of normal time in the first half and this is exactly how you want a cup tie to be playing out if you're the lower division team. Keep frustrating the opposition, the longer this goes on, the better chance you have to sneak something. 

• Mertz with the Hounds' first corner of the game and it sails right through and is cleared away. 

• Lilley is furious with the referee and rightly so. Danny Griffin goes down under a challenge from Nico Cavallo and the ball goes out of play. So either it's a foul, or Cavallo got the ball and it should be a Hounds throw... they got neither. 

• In terms of performance, this is the best the Hounds have played all season. Decision making is better, they're quicker in their play and matching New York in terms of physicality. Where has this team been for most of the season?

• Pretty nice counterattack chance for the Hounds there. A New York corner is punched clear by Dick, Jacquesson and Jackson Walti lead it and if Walti's through ball was a little less powerful, Jacquesson would have been in, instead it runs away for a goal kick.

• Monsef Bakrar with a strong shot of his own, picking up a ball over the top and firing an effort from about 18 yards out on the corner of the box that was right at Dick, who you can definitely tell is still reeling a bit after getting his gloves stung.

• New York will have the first corner of the game, which Eric Dick flaps at and the ball carries out wide, another cross comes in but he claims it cleanly this time. 

• Ten minutes gone and the Riverhounds have settled in quite well. Keeping the New York attack quiet and actually getting forward. Jorge Garcia wins a free kick on the left flank which Mertz takes, he whips it into the box and after a bit of pinball Jacquesson swivels on a sixpence and rifles a shot that luckily for the visitors was right at goalkeeper Tomás Romero, because that had some fizz to it. 

• Riverhounds going with a 5-1-3-1 formation today to try and stifle their opponents. 

• Kickoff: And we're underway with the Riverhounds attacking the Paul Child Stand in this first half. 

• For my 'three keys' tonight, I'm actually going to keep it to one, because no matter how many times I racked my brains over this, everything I came up with essentially boiled down to one key principle, so I'll just keep it simple.

Don't embarrass yourselves: A defeat is not the end of the world for the Riverhounds, they are the underdogs for good reason. However, they cannot get humiliated. If they end up losing by four or five, it could turn their current tailspin into a full on nosedive. 

A gutsy performance, one that they can take pride in even if it's a loss by one or two, that can give them the mental boost they need. 

• Meanwhile for the visitors, they have named a slightly weakened side, but it's still a very strong one all things considered with plenty of first team regulars included: 

• Here we are with tonight's starters, with Bob Lilley shaking things up from Saturday's loss, most notably up top where Bertin Jacquesson gets his first start of the season with Augi Williams dropping to the bench. Guillaume Vacter also gets his first start whilst Robbie Mertz is back from concussion protocol:

• We are LIVE from the press box at Highmark Stadium on what is a perfect night for a cup game. In ordinary circumstances, and given their history, you might figure the Riverhounds would fancy their chances tonight. But this is going to be a very tough assignment against this particular MLS outfit. 

Still, stranger things have happened, and as we say in the U.K., we could be in for a bit of 'Magic of the Cup' tonight. Lineups coming in 30 minutes.