Orlando City returned to winning ways in MLS in sensational fashion as new arrival Antoine Griezmann helped them to a 4-0 rout of the San Jose Earthquakes.<\/p>\n
Griezmann officially linked up with Orlando during the World Cup break, and the Atletico Madrid great took no time at all to settle in on his MLS debut.<\/p>\n
Orlando went into the break on the back of a 6-2 defeat to FC Cincinnati, but they bounced back in emphatic fashion at\u00a0PayPal Park, with four different players on target.<\/p>\n
Eduard Atuesta starred with three assists, the first of which came for Orlando’s opener, as the Colombian whipped a free-kick onto the head of the unmarked\u00a0David Brekalo, who duly nodded home.<\/p>\n
Griezmann laid on a chance for\u00a0Tiago soon after, but the Brazilian saw his shot turned wide by Angus Gunn, before\u00a0Maxime Crepeau made a couple of smart stops at the other end and San Jose saw a goal disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n
Orlando made the most of their reprieve, with\u00a0Ivan Angulo drilling in from outside the box in the 29th minute.<\/p>\n
Griezmann’s moment arrived early in the second half, as he found space in the area and coolly swept into the right-hand corner.<\/p>\n
Braian Ojeda rounded off a huge victory for Orlando by heading in from an\u00a0Atuesta cross in the 72nd minute, as Orlando closed in on the play-off spots in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
Milestone up for Griezmann<\/p>\n
There are some huge names now plying their trade in MLS, with Griezmann joining Robert Lewandowski in making his bow in the competition on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
While Lewandowski could not help the Chicago Fire beat Inter Miami, Griezmann made a flying start to his MLS career and, in the process, scored his 300th club goal.<\/p>\n
Griezmann hit the ground running. He led the game for chances created (five), and led Orlando for touches (70), passes (54) and accurate passes (45).<\/p>\n
At the other end, Orlando kept a clean sheet despite coming into this game on the back of conceding 35 goals across their last nine regular-season games.<\/p>\n
They have now lost just one of eight all-time meetings with San Jose, who can at least take some solace in the fact they have not dropped off the pace at the top of the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
That is thanks to a 4-3 win for FC Cincinnati over the Vancouver Whitecaps. Los Angeles FC, however, close the gap to the Earthquakes as they beat Real Salt Lake 3-1, with star attackers Son Heung-min and\u00a0Denis Bouanga on target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando City returned to winning ways in MLS in sensational fashion as new arrival Antoine Griezmann helped them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-409143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}