\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKeaton Parks scored twice in the second half, and New York City FC rolled past Orlando City 5-0 on Saturday in its home opener.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.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\u2019s cross. Moralez added a penalty in first-half stoppage time to give New York City a 3-0 advantage at the break.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.New York City dominated the pitch, holding 68% possession and outshooting Orlando 13-4.The victory continued NYCFC\u2019s strong run in the series. New York City is unbeaten in its last seven meetings with Orlando dating to 2022.Up nextOrlando: faces Montreal next Saturday.NYCFC: at Colorado next Saturday.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tCONCOURSE, N.Y. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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
New York City (2-1-0) moved into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference with the win. <\/p>\n
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
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\u2019s cross. Moralez added a penalty in first-half stoppage time to give New York City a 3-0 advantage at the break.<\/p>\n
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
New York City dominated the pitch, holding 68% possession and outshooting Orlando 13-4.<\/p>\n
The victory continued NYCFC\u2019s strong run in the series. New York City is unbeaten in its last seven meetings with Orlando dating to 2022.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Orlando: faces Montreal next Saturday.<\/p>\n
NYCFC: at Colorado next Saturday.<\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[86335,14494,5864,7898,5521,86337,86338,14208,8003,86334,5692,86336,17142,86339,26609,139,4786,8004,141,140,9307],"class_list":["post-183329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-16th-minute","tag-box","tag-break","tag-center","tag-cross","tag-defeat","tag-first-half-stoppage-time","tag-lead","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-maxi-moralez","tag-mls","tag-montreal-next-saturday","tag-new-york-city-fc","tag-nicolas-fernandez","tag-nycfc","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-city-soccer-club","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-second-half"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183329","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=183329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}