{"id":277591,"date":"2026-05-20T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277591\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:41:11","slug":"orlando-city-rout-atlanta-united-to-reach-us-open-cup-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277591\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City rout Atlanta United to reach US Open Cup semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The result sets up a semifinal matchup against either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/columbus-crew\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Crew<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-york-city-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City FC<\/a>, who have their quarterfinal bout on Wednesday at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions got off to a flying start, pouring in three goals in the first 25 minutes and never looking back, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/david-brekalo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Brekalo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/griffin-dorsey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Griffin Dorsey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/tiago\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiago<\/a> all found the scoresheet.<\/p>\n<p>Brekalo opened the scoring in the fifth minute, converting a free header off an assist from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/braian-ojeda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braian Ojeda<\/a>. Dorsey doubled the advantage in the 16th minute with a tap-in finish off a low cross from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/ivan-angulo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iv\u00e1n Angulo<\/a>, while Tiago capped off the early barrage by converting after a giveaway at the back.<\/p>\n<p>Tiago found his brace in first-half stoppage time, with Atlanta forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/emmanuel-latte-lath\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emmanuel Latte Lath<\/a> logging an 84th-minute consolation goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The result sets up a semifinal matchup against either Columbus Crew or New York City FC, who have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15268,16163,139,4786,141,140,117880,4959,6236],"class_list":["post-277591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-atlanta-united","tag-match-reaction","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlvsatl-05-19-2026","tag-sendtonews","tag-us-open-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277591","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=277591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}