COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Diego Rossi scored late in the second half to rally Columbus to a 1-1 draw with Orlando City on Sunday night after the Crew lost Wessam Abou Ali to a first-half injury.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107 used nifty assists from rookie Tiago Souza \u2014 his first \u2014 and Iv\u00e1n Angulo \u2014 his fourth \u2014 in the 14th minute to score for the second time this season and give Orlando City a 1-0 lead. It was the Lions\u2019 first away goal of the season<\/p>\n
It was the Lions\u2019 first goal since scoring twice March 14 in a 2-1 victory over Montreal. Orlando City was outscored 11-0 in its next two matches<\/a> \u2014 a 6-0 loss in Los Angeles versus LAFC and a 5-0 loss in Nashville, before Pa\u0161ali\u0107 pushed a left-footed shot from the center of the goal box into the bottom right corner of the net.<\/p>\n Abou Ali, who scored two of his team-high five goals in the Crew\u2019s first victory of the season last week when they beat Atlanta United 3-1 on the road, left on a stretcher in the 35th minute with an apparent right leg injury. He was replaced by Taha Habroune.<\/p>\n Rossi ended a four-match streak without a goal contribution when he took a pass from Habroune in the 80th minute and\u00a0scored the Crew\u2019s first home goal\u00a0of the season for the equalizer. It was Rossi\u2019s third goal this season and Habroune\u2019s first assist.<\/p>\n Patrick Schulte finished without making a save for Columbus (1-3-3), as Orlando City\u2019s score was its lone shot on goal.<\/p>\n Maxime Cr\u00e9peau saved six shots \u2014 five in the second half \u2014 in his 141st career start and fifth with Orlando City (1-5-1). The draw gave the Lions their fourth point of the season. They are 13th in the MLS Eastern Conference standings.<\/p>\n The Crew are still looking for their first win at home \u2014 going 0-1-2 so far \u2014 under Henrik Rydstr\u00f6m, who took the reins after Wilfried Nancy left to coach Scotland\u2019s Celtic FC.<\/p>\n Orlando City came in having been outscored 16-0 in its last three road matches. The first loss \u2014 5-0 to New York City FC \u2014 cost Oscar Pareja his job and led to Mart\u00edn Perelman taking over as the interim coach. The result was an improvement over the Lions\u2019 last outing against LAFC, which resulted in the largest margin of defeat<\/a> in club history.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Orlando next plays Wednesday in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup at FC Naples in southwest Florida. The Lions return to MLS action when they host the Houston Dynamo on Saturday.<\/p>\n Columbus competes in the U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday at Richmond, then visits the New England Revolution on Saturday in MLS play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 Diego Rossi scored late in the second half to rally Columbus to a 1-1 draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,1335,139,4788,141,140,2062,76046,110],"class_list":["post-229354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-soccer","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229354","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=229354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}