Red\u00a0Bull New York\u00a0II\u00a0(4-0-2, 11 pts.) defeat FC Cincinnati 2 (1-5-0, 3 pts) 3-1, on Sunday night at MSU Soccer Park.<\/p>\n
New York opened the scoring in the 16th minute when forward\u00a0Mijahir Jimenez\u00a0played a wide ball through to midfielder\u00a0Dennis Gjengaar\u00a0who laced the shot to the top right corner.<\/p>\n
Red Bulls II pulled away in the second half behind Gjengaar\u2019s second goal in the 49th minute as he picked up a loose ball in the six-yard box from a corner and struck the ball in the back of the net.<\/p>\n
New York doubled their lead in the 57th minute when defender\u00a0Connor Faello played a ball forward to midfielder\u00a0Nate Worth\u00a0who played first time ball to\u00a0midfielder\u00a0Andy Rojas who placed the ball in the bottom left corner in the 57th minute.<\/p>\n
Gjengaar recorded his first career MLS NEXT Pro brace and scored his first and second career goals for Red Bulls II.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rojas scored his second goal of the season and seventh career goal in MLS NEXT Pro.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The midfielder has scored a goal in back-to-back matches.<\/p>\n
Rojas scored his second career goal against Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
Worth recorded his second assist of the season and the sixth of his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jimenez earned his third assist of the season and the third of his career.<\/p>\n
The forward has two assists in his last three appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Faello recorded his first career MLS NEXT Pro assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Midfielder\u00a0Marco Morigi\u00a0and defender\u00a0Jason Bori\u00a0made their MLS NEXT Pro debuts.<\/p>\n
New York are now unbeaten through their first six matches of the 2026 MLS NEXT Pro season, which is the second time the club has achieved the feat in club history.<\/p>\n
Following Sunday\u2019s match, New York will return home to MSU Soccer Park to face Columbus Crew 2 on Sunday, April 26. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m. ET with coverage on\u00a0MLSNEXTPro.com\u00a0and OneFootball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red\u00a0Bull New York\u00a0II\u00a0(4-0-2, 11 pts.) defeat FC Cincinnati 2 (1-5-0, 3 pts) 3-1, on Sunday night at MSU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5075,9,24,55,54,5076,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-202954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-mls-next-pro","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-new-york-red-bulls-ii","14":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202954","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=202954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}