NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Evander da Silva Ferreira \u2014 known simply as \u201cEvander\u201d \u2014 converted from the spot in the fifth minute of stoppage time and Kevin Denkey scored two goals for Cincinnati FC in a 4-4 tie with New York City FC on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n
Andrei Chirila scored his first MLS goal in his fourth career appearance to cap the scoring in the second minute of stoppage time and, about three minutes later, Evander\u2019s penalty kick capped the scoring. <\/p>\n
Cincinnati (2-4-3), which rallied from a three-goal deficit against New York City, is winless in four straight.<\/p>\n
Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez scored two goals for NYCFC. Agustin Ojeda and Talles Magno each added a goal. <\/p>\n
NYCFC (3-3-3) is winless in five straight.<\/p>\n
Denkey scored goals in the 32nd and 65th minutes. <\/p>\n
Fern\u00e1ndez has eight goals this season, second most in MLS behind Nashville\u2019s Sam Surridge (nine). The 26-year-old Fern\u00e1ndez became the fourth player in NYCFC history to score at least 10 goals in their first 20 regular-season appearances (Fern\u00e1ndez has 11 goals). <\/p>\n
Fern\u00e1ndez opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Aiden O\u2019Neill\u2019s shot from outside the left corner of the penalty area was stopped by goalkeeper Roman Celentano but the ball slipped out of his grasp and Fern\u00e1ndez slammed the rebound inside the right post. <\/p>\n
Maxi Moralez played a first-touch pass to the edge of the area and Fern\u00e1ndez, who outraced the defense to the ball and scored from the right corner of the 6-yard box to give NYCFC a 2-1 lead in the 35th minute.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati defender Teenage Hadebe left the game due to injury and was replaced by Alvas Powell in the 23rd minute. <\/p>\n
Celentano finished with five saves. <\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Evander da Silva Ferreira \u2014 known simply as \u201cEvander\u201d \u2014 converted from the spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-622426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622426","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=622426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}