{"id":360438,"date":"2026-08-02T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360438\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:17:08","slug":"jimenez-nets-brace-in-1st-mls-start-as-red-bulls-beat-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360438\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim\u00e9nez nets brace in 1st MLS start as Red Bulls beat Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRISON, N.J. &#8212; &#8211; Mijahir Jim\u00e9nez scored two goals in his first MLS start, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/148641\/Emil-Forsberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emil Forsberg<\/a> added another in the 43rd minute and the New York Red Bulls beat Orlando 3-2 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">New York (7-7-4) has posted a 4-0-2 mark in the last six meetings across all competitions against Orlando, including a 2-1 victory in the opening match of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Orlando (6-10-2) has not defeated New York since a season sweep in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jim\u00e9nez, a 19-year-old who was added on a short-term call up from Red Bull New York II, opened the scoring in the 23rd and put New York ahead 3-1 in the 60th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jim\u00e9nez became the second player in Red Bulls history to score a brace in his first career MLS start, joining Cornell Glen on May 8, 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/329273\/Tyrese-Spicer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyrese Spicer<\/a> and <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/267116\/Griffin-Dorsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Griffin Dorsey<\/a> both scored a second-half goal for Orlando.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Up next Orlando: Hosts Cincinnati on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Red Bulls: Play at Atlanta on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">AP soccer: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a>br\/]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISON, N.J. &#8212; &#8211; Mijahir Jim\u00e9nez scored two goals in his first MLS start, Emil Forsberg added another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[146866,4899,5692,139,141,140,78500,146865,2062],"class_list":["post-360438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-146866","tag-espn","tag-mls","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-city-sc-usaorlando_city_sc","tag-red-bull-new-york-usanew_york","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360438","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=360438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}