ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 Sebastian Cruz and MD Myers each found the net as the Tampa Bay Rowdies took a 3-1 victory against Loudoun United FC at Al Lang Stadium to earn their third consecutive victory to start the regular season.<\/p>\n
The Rowdies took the lead in the seventh minute when a half-cleared corner from the right fell to Sebastian Cruz at the top of the penalty area, from where Cruz produced a spectacular curled finish to the top-right corner for his first goal in the USL Championship. The hosts went close again just before the half-hour mark as Pedro Dolabella rang the crossbar with a header, while Marco Micaletto had an effort cleared off the line moments later.<\/p>\n
Loudoun struck back two minutes into the second half, however, as Thorleifur \u00dalfarsson curled home a brilliant free kick from the top of the penalty area into the top-left corner of the net. Tampa Bay regained the lead five minutes later, though, as Max Schneider\u2019s looping volley from 25 yards and hit the crossbar before going in off United goalkeeper Adam Beaudry for an own goal. The Rowdies then put the game away with 10 minutes to go when MD Myers played a good give-and-go with Evan Conway and shot home from the right side of the penalty area.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Rowdies \u2013 The Rowdies continued their perfect start to the campaign with their quick response after a sharp finish by United early in the start allowing the hosts to maintain their hold on the game as they ended the night with nine shots on target and two off the woodwork<\/p>\n
Loudoun United FC \u2013 Loudoun United remained winless in league play this season as they had difficulty threatening in the final third, recording only five shots with the lone effort on target coming via \u00dalfarsson\u2019s brilliant free kick strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 Sebastian Cruz and MD Myers each found the net as the Tampa Bay Rowdies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[115,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-210181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210181","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=210181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}