{"id":201200,"date":"2026-03-22T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201200\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:10:33","slug":"nashville-beats-orlando-city-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201200\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville beats Orlando City 5-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Sam Surridge scored three goals \u2014 his third multi-goal game this season \u2014 on Saturday to help Nashville SC beat Orlando City 5-0.<\/p>\n

Surridge leads MLS with seven goals this season, two more than Vancouver\u2019s Brian White and Petar Musa of FC Dallas. The 27-year-old Surridge, who scored a career-high 24 goals last season, has three career hat tricks and scored a club-record four goals in a\u00a07-2<\/a>\u00a0win over Chicago last season.<\/p>\n

Brian Schwake finished with a save and had his third shutout of the season for Nashville.<\/p>\n

Cristian Espinoza, who also had an assist, opened the scoring in the fourth minute and Warren Madrigal, a 21-year-old rookie forward, scored his first goal in MLS in the 80th to make it 5-0.<\/p>\n

Surridge converted from the penalty spot in the 28th minute and added goals in the 55th and 67th minutes. On the counter-attack, Alex Muyl ran onto a pass from Hany Mukhtar at the edge of the penalty box and, as he was falling, tapped it to Surridge for a first-touch finish from the center of the area. After a failed clearance attempt by Orlando, Surridge slammed a first-touch shot into the net from just inside the penalty box to give Nashville (4-0-1) a four-goal lead.<\/p>\n

Maxime Cr\u00e9peau returned from a one-game suspension (red card) and had four saves for Orlando City (1-4-0). The 31-year-old, who helped Los Angeles FC to Supporter’s Shield and MLS Cup titles in 2022, has allowed 11 goals this season.<\/p>\n

Espinoza blasted a shot from outside the right corner of the 18-yard box that skipped off the bottom of the crossbar into the net to give Nashville a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Nashville had 58% possession and outshot Orlando City 17-10, 9-1 on target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Sam Surridge scored three goals \u2014 his third multi-goal game this season \u2014 on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,28,139,4786,141,140,2062,110],"class_list":["post-201200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201200","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=201200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}