\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKeaton Parks scored twice in the second half, and New York City FC rolled past Orlando City 5-0 on Saturday in its home opener.New York City (2-1-0) moved into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference with the win. Orlando (0-0-3) played most of the game with 10 men after goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau was sent off in the 16th minute with a red card.NYCFC opened the scoring in the 21st minute when Agustin Ojeda finished from the center of the box on a pass from Maxi Moralez. Nicolas Fern\u00e1ndez doubled the lead in the 42nd minute, scoring a header on Moralez\u2019s cross. Moralez added a penalty in first-half stoppage time to give New York City a 3-0 advantage at the break.Parks extended the lead early in the second half, finishing from close range in the 49th minute off a feed from Tayvon Gray. He added his second goal five minutes later with a left-footed shot from the center of the box to make it 5-0.New York City dominated the pitch, holding 68% possession and outshooting Orlando 13-4.The victory continued NYCFC\u2019s strong run in the series. New York City is unbeaten in its last seven meetings with Orlando dating to 2022.Up nextOrlando: faces Montreal next Saturday.NYCFC: at Colorado next Saturday.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tCONCOURSE, N.Y. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Keaton Parks scored twice in the second half, and New York City FC rolled past Orlando City 5-0 on Saturday in its home opener.<\/p>\n New York City (2-1-0) moved into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference with the win. <\/p>\n Orlando (0-0-3) played most of the game with 10 men after goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau was sent off in the 16th minute with a red card.<\/p>\n NYCFC opened the scoring in the 21st minute when Agustin Ojeda finished from the center of the box on a pass from Maxi Moralez. Nicolas Fern\u00e1ndez doubled the lead in the 42nd minute, scoring a header on Moralez\u2019s cross. Moralez added a penalty in first-half stoppage time to give New York City a 3-0 advantage at the break.<\/p>\n Parks extended the lead early in the second half, finishing from close range in the 49th minute off a feed from Tayvon Gray. He added his second goal five minutes later with a left-footed shot from the center of the box to make it 5-0.<\/p>\n New York City dominated the pitch, holding 68% possession and outshooting Orlando 13-4.<\/p>\n The victory continued NYCFC\u2019s strong run in the series. New York City is unbeaten in its last seven meetings with Orlando dating to 2022.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Orlando: faces Montreal next Saturday.<\/p>\n NYCFC: at Colorado next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keaton Parks scored twice in the second half, and New York City FC rolled past Orlando City 5-0…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":641397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[151360,5229,44462,56852,3953,21812,30218,272980,5615,6071,193014,6656,272979,405,403,29097,5226,5225,272981,5228,5227,94089,48397,261055,51379,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-641396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-16th-minute","tag-america","tag-box","tag-break","tag-center","tag-cross","tag-defeat","tag-first-half-stoppage-time","tag-lead","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-maxi-moralez","tag-mls","tag-montreal-next-saturday","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-fc","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-nicolas-fernandez","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nycfc","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-city-soccer-club","tag-second-half","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}