HARRISON N.J. (May 17, 2026) – Red\u202fBull New York\u202fII\u202f(7-1-2, 23 pts.) fall 3-2 to NYCFC II (3-4-2, 12 pts.) on Sunday night at MSU Soccer Park.<\/p>\n
NYCFC II opened the scoring in the 57th\u00a0minute. Winger Elhadji Samb played a ball near post into the six-yard box to defender Joao Loiola Santos who volleyed the ball into the bottom left corner of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The visitors doubled their lead in 63rd\u00a0minute. Midfielder Cooper Flax struck a right footed free kick from the top of the box into the top left corner of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NYCFC II found a third in the 71st\u00a0minute. Midfielder David Duque played a through ball to forward Ethadji Samb who placed a shot into the top left corner.<\/p>\n
New York got on the scoresheet in the 74th\u00a0minute, forward\u00a0Christian Gallagher\u00a0pounced on a header from an NYCFC II defender and brought the ball down with his chest and laced a right footed volley into the top left corner.<\/p>\n
Red Bulls II scored a second goal in the 82nd\u00a0minute. Winger\u00a0Dennis Nelich\u00a0played a lateral ball across the top of the box to midfielder\u00a0Paul Sokoloff\u00a0who struck a right footed shot into the bottom left corner.<\/p>\n
Gallagher and Sokoloff each scored their second goal of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nelich provided his second assist of the season.<\/p>\n
The winger has three goal contributions in his last four appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Midfielder\u00a0Sekou Kone\u00a0made his first career MLS NEXT Pro start.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Midfielder\u00a0Sean Baitinger\u00a0made his MLS NEXT Pro debut, subbing into the match in the 80th\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n
Following Sunday\u2019s match, Red Bulls II will host Connecticut United on Sunday, May 24 at MSU Soccer Park. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. ET with coverage available on\u00a0OneFootball\u00a0and MLSNEXTPro.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISON N.J. (May 17, 2026) – Red\u202fBull New York\u202fII\u202f(7-1-2, 23 pts.) fall 3-2 to NYCFC II (3-4-2, 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,248688,248689,561,82],"class_list":["post-676641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mls-next-pro","tag-new-york-red-bulls-ii","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676641","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=676641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}