{"id":689896,"date":"2026-05-24T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689896\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:06:09","slug":"prince-owusu-hat-trick-helps-montreal-rally-for-4-4-tie-with-d-c-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689896\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Owusu hat trick helps Montreal rally for 4-4 tie with D.C. United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779595569_589_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>D.C. United defender Matti Peltola, left, and CF Montreal midfielder Matty Longstaff, front right, battle for the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Nick Wass)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 23, 2026 | 8:30 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Prince Owusu finished off his first Major League Soccer hat trick on a penalty kick four minutes into stoppage time, and teenager Hennadii Synchuk scored the equalizer two minutes later to rally CF Montreal to a 4-4 draw with D.C. United on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal trailed 4-2 heading into stoppage time before <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2058362373065306329?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Owusu scored for the third time<\/a> in the match and the ninth time this season. The PK was awarded after he was fouled by Keisuke Kurokawa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2058363046410571779?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Synchuk, 19, followed<\/a> with his first goal this season and his second in 22 appearances after subbing into the match in the 67th minute<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Louis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dcunited\/status\/2058335554496786495?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Munteanu scored his fifth goal<\/a> \u2014 unassisted on a header off a deflection in the ninth minute to put D.C. United in front and Jared <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dcunited\/status\/2058340315937804305?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stroud scored<\/a> for the first time this season \u2014 unassisted in the 28th minute for a two-goal lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"D.C. United defender Matti Peltola, left, and CF Montreal midfielder Matty Longstaff, front right, battle for the ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-689896","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\/689896","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=689896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}