{"id":386199,"date":"2026-08-31T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386199\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:32:07","slug":"tyrese-spicer-saves-orlando-at-the-death-energy-moment-of-the-matchday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386199\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyrese Spicer saves Orlando at the death | Energy Moment of the Matchday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/tyrese-spicer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrese Spicer<\/a> delivered a wild finish to a wild game on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/orlando-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando City<\/a>&#8216;s Trinidadian international striker scored a 93rd-minute equalizer to salvage a heart-stopping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/minvsorl-08-29-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-3 road draw<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/minnesota-united-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota United FC<\/a> and earn\u00a0Energy\u00a0Moment of the Matchday presented by Celsius honors for Matchday 23.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions went from a comfortable two-goal lead to staring at defeat after Minnesota scored three times in five minutes late in the second half to flip the game on its head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Spicer would have the final say.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after coming off the bench, the No. 1 pick of the 2024 MLS SuperDraft took a long through ball from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/antoine-griezmann\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antoine Griezmann<\/a>, raced down the left side and coolly beat goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/drake-callender\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake Callender<\/a> from a tight angle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Spicer&#8217;s last-gasp goal, the Lions left Allianz Field with a vital point that left them in ninth place in the East \u2013 good for the conference&#8217;s final Audi 2026 MLS Cup Playoff spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orlando continue their late-season push on Saturday when they host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego FC<\/a> at Inter.co Stadium (7:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/orlando-city-vs-san-diego-fc\/umc.cse.1zm3yl1gbh0psv4kt2odb5e4o?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.4000%2Ctvs.sbd.7000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Spicer delivered a wild finish to a wild game on Saturday night. Orlando City&#8216;s Trinidadian international striker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[116166,153359,139,4786,141,140,4959,7702],"class_list":["post-386199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-energy-moment-of-the-matchday","tag-minvsorl-08-29-2026","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-tyrese-spicer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386199","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=386199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}