{"id":491545,"date":"2026-02-22T06:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491545\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:58:07","slug":"amahl-pelligrinos-goal-two-assists-help-san-diego-fc-beat-cf-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491545\/","title":{"rendered":"Amahl Pelligrino&#8217;s goal, two assists help San Diego FC beat CF Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Amahl Pellegrino had a goal and two assists to help San Diego FC beat CF Montreal 5-0 on Saturday night in the Major League Soccer regular-season opener for both teams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Eighteen-year-old Duran Ferree made his MLS debut and finished with two saves for San Diego. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tomas Aviles was shown a straight red card in the 50th minute and Montreal played a man down the rest of the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Christopher McVey, Onni Valakari, Marcus Ingvartsen and 18-year-old Bryan Zambl\u00e9 each added a goal for San Diego. Valakari, Ingvartsen and Zambl\u00e9 made their MLS debuts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McVey opened the scoring in the 14th minute, bouncing a header inside the back post, and Pelligrino scored in the second minute of stoppage time to give San Diego a 2-0 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thomas Gillier stopped three shots for Montreal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">San Diego had 64 per cent possession and outshot Montreal 12-6, including 6-0 in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montreal: Visits the Chicago Fire on Saturday, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">San Diego: Hosts St. Louis City on Sunday, March 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Amahl Pellegrino had a goal and two assists to help San Diego FC beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,82],"class_list":["post-491545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}