{"id":491711,"date":"2026-02-22T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491711\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:03:08","slug":"pelligrinos-three-point-night-helps-san-diego-whip-montreal-in-mls-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491711\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelligrino&#8217;s three-point night helps San Diego whip Montreal in MLS season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \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>Eighteen-year-old Duran Ferree made his MLS debut and finished with two saves for San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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>Thomas Gillier stopped three shots for Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego had 64 per cent possession and outshot Montreal 12-6, including 6-0 in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal: Visits the Chicago Fire on Saturday, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego: Hosts St. Louis City on Sunday, March 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 Amahl Pellegrino had a goal and two assists to help San Diego FC beat CF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-491711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491711","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=491711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}