{"id":231168,"date":"2026-04-14T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231168\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:27:37","slug":"columbus-1-1-orlando-apr-12-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231168\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus 1-1 Orlando (Apr 12, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLUMBUS, Ohio —\u00a0Diego Rossi<\/a> scored late in the second half to rally Columbus Crew<\/a> to a 1-1 draw with Orlando City SC<\/a> on Sunday night after the Crew lost Wessam Abou Ali<\/a> to a first-half injury.<\/p>\n

Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107’s two goals came from assists by rookie Tiago Souza — his first — and Iv\u00e1n Angulo<\/a> — his fourth — in the 14th minute to score for the second time this season and give Orlando City a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Abou Ali, who scored two of his team-high five goals in the Crew’s 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<\/a>.<\/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’s first home goal of the season for the equalizer. It was Rossi’s third goal this season and Habroune’s first assist.<\/p>\n

Patrick Schulte<\/a> finished without a save for Columbus (1-3-3).<\/p>\n

Maxime Cr\u00e9peau saved six shots — five in the second half — in his 141st career start and fifth with Orlando City (1-5-1).<\/p>\n

The Crew are still looking for their first win at home – going 0-1-2 so far – under Henrik Rydstr\u00f6m, who took the reins after Wilfried Nancy left to coach Scotland’s Celtic FC.<\/p>\n

Orlando City came in having been outscored 16-0 in its last three road matches. The first loss – 5-0 to New York City FC – cost Oscar Pareja his job and led to Mart\u00edn Perelman taking over as the interim coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio —\u00a0Diego Rossi scored late in the second half to rally Columbus Crew to a 1-1 draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-231168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231168","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=231168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}