{"id":659970,"date":"2026-05-10T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659970\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:08:40","slug":"rios-penalty-kick-spurs-cf-montreal-to-2-0-victory-over-orlando-city-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/659970\/","title":{"rendered":"Rios penalty kick spurs CF Montreal to 2-0 victory over Orlando City | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778407720_561_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CF Montreal&#8217;s Daniel Rios (14) celebrates with teammates Victor Loturi, left, Olger Escobar (29) and Wiki Carmona, centre back, after scoring from the penalty spot during second half MLS soccer action against Orlando City SC in Montreal, Saturday, May 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 9, 2026 | 4:26 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 A 90th-minute Daniel Rios penalty helped CF Montreal to a 2-0 win over Orlando City, and a fourth straight home win Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rios and Dangur Thorhallsson scored for Montreal (4-7-0), who leapfrogged Orlando (3-1-8) in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal controlled the tempo of the game in Saturday\u2019s early stages. Both through possession and on the counterattack, gaps all over the field set the stage for an attacking matchup.<\/p>\n<p>With two of the lowest-rated defences in the MLS, both sides embraced the game\u2019s openness immediately. Attackers had golden scoring chances in the opening 20 minutes, but lacked the efficiency to score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CF Montreal&#8217;s Daniel Rios (14) celebrates with teammates Victor Loturi, left, Olger Escobar (29) and Wiki Carmona, centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2338,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-659970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-montreal","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659970","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=659970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}