{"id":182542,"date":"2026-03-07T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182542\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:49:22","slug":"parks-scores-twice-in-second-half-new-york-city-fc-rolls-orlando-city-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182542\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks scores twice in second half, New York City FC rolls Orlando City 5-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keaton Parks scored twice in the second half, and New York City FC rolled past Orlando City 5-0 on Saturday in its home opener.<\/p>\n<p>New York City (2-1-0) moved into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference with the win. Orlando (0-0-3) played most of the game with 10 men after goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau was sent off in the 16th minute with a red card.<\/p>\n<p>NYCFC opened the scoring in the 21st minute when Agustin Ojeda finished from the center of the box on a pass from Maxi Moralez. Nicolas Fern\u00e1ndez doubled the lead in the 42nd minute, scoring a header on Moralez&#8217;s cross. Moralez added a penalty in first-half stoppage time to give New York City a 3-0 advantage at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Parks extended the lead early in the second half, finishing from close range in the 49th minute off a feed from Tayvon Gray. He added his second goal five minutes later with a left-footed shot from the center of the box to make it 5-0.<\/p>\n<p>New York City dominated the pitch, holding 68% possession and outshooting Orlando 13-4.<\/p>\n<p>The victory continued NYCFC&#8217;s strong run in the series. New York City is unbeaten in its last seven meetings with Orlando dating to 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Orlando: faces Montreal next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>NYCFC: at Colorado next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keaton Parks scored twice in the second half, and New York City FC rolled past Orlando City 5-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8003,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-182542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}