Red Bull New York II (2-0-0, 6 pts.) defeated Inter Miami CF II (0-1-1, 1 pts.), 3-0, on Sunday night at Sports Illustrated Stadium.<\/p>\n
New York opened the scoring in the 12th\u00a0minute, when midfielder\u00a0Dennis Nelich\u00a0played a low-driven left-footed cross into Inter Miami CF II\u2019s six-yard box and found the foot of forward\u00a0Mijahir Jimenez, who tapped the ball in the back of the net.<\/p>\n
RBNY II found their second goal of the match in the 67th\u00a0minute, when Nelich played a ball across the field that was headed by Jimenez and fell to midfielder\u00a0Benjamin Rodriguez, who fired a right-footed shot in the back of the net.<\/p>\n
New York added a third in the third minute of second half stoppage time, when forward\u00a0Christian Gallagher\u00a0drew a penalty kick and stepped up and placed his attempt in the right-hand corner of the net.<\/p>\n
Jimenez scored his first MLS NEXT Pro goal of the season and the ninth of his career with Red Bull New York II.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nelich tallied his first MLS NEXT Pro assist of the season and also the first assist of his professional career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his first appearance of the season, Rodriguez scored his first career MLS NEXT Pro goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gallagher scored his first MLS NEXT Pro goal of the season and the first of his professional career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defender\u00a0Aimar Sanchez\u00a0and midfielder\u00a0Makan Sissoko\u00a0made their first career MLS NEXT Pro appearances and starts.<\/p>\n
Midfielders\u00a0Paul Sokoloff\u00a0and\u00a0Deven Cadigan\u00a0made their first career MLS NEXT Pro starts.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper\u00a0Tobias Szewczyk\u00a0recorded his first career MLS NEXT Pro shutout in tonight\u2019s match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York have extended their home unbeaten streak to eight consecutive matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
RBNY II have also won their last five matches across all competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red Bulls II\u2019s have won the first two matches of their seasn for the first time in club history.<\/p>\n
Following Sunday\u2019s match, New York will travel to Belson Stadium to face NYCFC II on Sunday, March 15. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. ET with coverage on MLSNEXTPro.com and OneFootball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull New York II (2-0-0, 6 pts.) defeated Inter Miami CF II (0-1-1, 1 pts.), 3-0, on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,6235,83363],"class_list":["post-186433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-mls-next-pro","tag-new-york-red-bulls-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186433","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=186433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}