Red\u202fBull New York\u202fII\u202f(11-8-4, 38 pts.) defeats Atlanta United 2 (10-8-4, 34 pts.) 2-1 on Friday evening at Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta Training Ground.<\/p>\n
In the 41st minute, after midfielder\u00a0Benny Rodriguez played a ball out wide to winger Andy Rojas, the Costa Rican found an unmarked Christian Gallagher to take the lead away from home.<\/p>\n
Three minutes into stoppage time, after Atlanta conceded a penalty, Rojas converted from the spot to double the lead.<\/p>\n
Just two minutes after the second half started, the home side were able to cut the deficit in half through a goal from midfielder Enzo Dovlo.<\/p>\n
Gallagher scored his fifth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
In 14 matches played this season, the forward has registered eight goal contributions.<\/p>\n
Rojas registered his third assist of the season.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez added his fifth assist of the season.<\/p>\n
After scoring from the spot, Rojas found the back of the net for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n
It was the 20-year-old\u2019s first goal in MLS NEXT Pro play since the Red Bulls 2-1 away victory at Toronto FC II on May 8.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper\u00a0Austin Causey made six saves in the match.<\/p>\n
Following Friday\u2019s match, Red Bulls II will return home to host Toronto FC II at MSU Soccer Park on Sunday, August 23. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. ET with coverage available on\u202fOneFootball\u202fand MLSNEXTPro.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red\u202fBull New York\u202fII\u202f(11-8-4, 38 pts.) defeats Atlanta United 2 (10-8-4, 34 pts.) 2-1 on Friday evening at Children\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5075,9,11,10,5076],"class_list":["post-321687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mls-next-pro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-red-bulls-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321687","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=321687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}