{"id":141606,"date":"2026-02-22T07:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141606\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T07:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:57:16","slug":"red-bull-new-york-beats-orlando-city-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141606\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull New York beats Orlando City in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Teenager Julian Hall scored two goals in the first half and 30-year-old rookie goalkeeper Kevin Horvath made them stand up as\u00a0Red Bull New York beat Orlando City 2-1 in a season opener on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Cade Cowell passed to Emil Forsberg, who maintained possession through traffic before setting up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/orlvsrbny-02-21-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hall for a tap-in<\/a>\u00a0in the 8th minute. Hall took a pass from 16-year-old rookie Adri Mehmeti and scored in the 40th minute to give New York a 2-0 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fifth career goal for Hall, who won\u2019t turn 18 until March 24. He scored once in 26 appearances last season and twice in 11 appearances in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Horvath, a member of the U.S. men\u2019s national team, totaled six saves and lost his clean sheet in the sixth minute of second-half stoppage time on a goal by Tiago Souza. Horvath replaces Carlos Coronel, who left to play in Brazil after five seasons with the Red Bulls. Souza subbed in for Tyrese Spicer in the 76th minute of his MLS debut.<\/p>\n<p>Maxime Cr\u00e9peau finished with 11 saves in his first start in goal for Orlando City after two seasons with the Portland Timbers. Cr\u00e9peau, who made his 200th career start, replaces longtime starter Pedro Gallese \u2014 who signed with Colombia\u2019s Deportivo Cali after his contract expired.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City\u2019s Wilder Cartagena hobbled off and was replaced by 19-year-old Colin Guske in the 14th minute. Guske played 13 minutes in five appearances last season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>New York: Hosts the New England Revolution on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City: Hosts Inter Miami on March 1.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Teenager Julian Hall scored two goals in the first half and 30-year-old rookie goalkeeper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118,1579,9,11,10,9418,59386,400,319,22243],"class_list":{"0":"post-141606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-city","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tampa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}