Red\u202fBull New York\u202fII\u202f(12-8-4, 41 pts.) defeats Toronto FC II (8-11-4, 30 pts.) 5-1 on Sunday night at MSU Soccer Park.<\/p>\n
Toronto opened the scoring in the fourth minute with a near-post strike from forward Elias Khodri.<\/p>\n
In the 20th minute, after captain\u00a0Nate Worth intercepted the ball, the midfielder lobbed it over the backline as forward Dennis Gjengaar found the bottom left corner to tie the match.<\/p>\n
At the latter stages of the first half, Gjengaar took advantage of an errand Toronto pass and evaded the goalkeeper for the lead.<\/p>\n
Eight minutes into the second half, after Toronto\u2019s goalkeeper had a loose touch, winger Andy Rojas capitalized on the opportunity to double the lead for the home side.<\/p>\n
In the 61st minute, the Red Bulls were successful in their counterattack as Rojas\u2019 trivela pass found winger Dennis Nelich, who slotted it home.<\/p>\n
Six minutes later, Gjengaar led the counterattack and passed it out wide substitute winger Benny Rodriguez, who found fellow substitute Christian Gallagher for the fifth goal.<\/p>\n
Gjengaar scored his fourth and fifth goals of the season.<\/p>\n
Worth registered his sixth assist of the 2026 MLS NEXT Pro campaign.<\/p>\n
Rojas scored his fifth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
The Costa Rican has scored in back-to-back matches.<\/p>\n
Nelich scored his team-leading seventh goal of the season.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old has 13 goal contributions this season.<\/p>\n
Rojas added his fourth assist of the season.<\/p>\n
In two matches against Toronto this campaign, the 20-year-old has compiled three goal contributions.<\/p>\n
Gallagher scored his sixth goal of the season, second-most at the club.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez registered his sixth assist of the season.<\/p>\n
Gjengaar added his eighth assist of the campaign.<\/p>\n
The Norwegian is tied with Nelich with 13 goal contributions in the season.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper\u00a0Tobias Szewczyk made four saves in the match.<\/p>\n
Following Sunday\u2019s match, Red Bulls II will travel to take on Connecticut United FC at Knights Field on Saturday, August 29. 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(12-8-4, 41 pts.) defeats Toronto FC II (8-11-4, 30 pts.) 5-1 on Sunday night at MSU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4119,15916,48],"class_list":["post-180283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-mls-next-pro","tag-new-york-red-bulls-ii","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}