Fulltime: New York Red Bulls 2 Orlando City SC 0
90' Four minutes of added time
86' Substitution: Dax McCarty off for Damien Perrinelle (NY)
76' Substitution: Shaun Wright-Phillips on for Alex Muyl (NY)
76' Larin in one on one against Robles, and the Red Bull 'keeper saves.
73' Larin's header is wide of the post.
68' Yellow Card awarded to Christian Higuita (ORL)
68' Veron set loose on the break, but his shot is saved by Bednik.
67' Collin's header is saved by Joe Bednik.
65' Substitutions: Bradley Wright-Phillips off for Gonzalo Veron (NY), Antonio Nocerino off for Julio Baptista (ORL)
60' Substitution: Carlos Rivas off for Cyle Larin (ORL)
59' GOAL NY RED BULLS! Felipe's free kick is beautifully struck past Bendik and into the back of the net. 2-0 RBNY!
55' BWP's free kick punched aside by Bendik.
53' After nice passing, Alex Muyl misses from point blank range. Was alone in the six yard box, missed the goal wide.
52' Yellow Card awarded to Brek Shea (ORL)
49' Yellow Card awarded to David Mateos (ORL)
46' Second half underway in Harrison, NJ.
Halftime Substitution: Harrison Heath off for Darwin Ceren (ORL)
Halftime: New York Red Bulls 1 Orlando City SC 0
45+' Yellow Card awarded to Alex Muyl (NY)
45' Three minutes of added time
45' Strecher out for an injured Harrison Heath, but he walks off instead with the help of the trainers.
41' All New York since the goal. Chance off a corner is blocked by the Orlando defense.
37' GOAL NY RED BULLS! Connor Lade burries a first time shot in the box and gives New York the lead. His first carear MLS goal!
32' Referee calls penalty a for New York, but after talking to the assistant he changes his mind. Red Bull players say that Grella's half volley came off the arm of the Orlando defender. On the replay it looks like it came off the face, not the hand.
30' Not much in the final third for either side. Midfield battle raging here at Red Bull Arena.
21' Nice fancy passing by the Red Bulls, but they do not get a shot off towards goal.
20' Carlos Rivas down and looked by the medical team. Appears that Collin stepped on his hand.
14' A Grella header is off the mark.
10' Alex Muyl down for a moment, seems to have a cut on his face.
6' Duvall takes a one time shot from the right side of the six yard box, but Bendik saves.
4' Orlando with the majority of the possesion in the early stages.
0' Kickoff at Red Bull Arena!
Anthem has been sung, kickoff is next!
The teams are making their way onto the pitch for the national anthem.
“It’s going to be about minimizing the self-inflicted damage. We know what they do. They are going to come after us, they are going to press and we can’t get ourselves in situations that will make it easier for them,” Lions Interim Head Coach Bobby Murphy said. “A wise man once said, ‘no matter who you play against, you’ll get a chance to get a goal. Just make sure you are in the game when you get that chance.”
If one thinks the Red Bulls are in a tough stretch, they are lucky to not be Orlando City fans. Orlando fired coach Adrian Heath last week, dividing the fan base on whether the only coach the club has ever known deserved to get the can. After drawing 0-0 in their first match after Heath's firing, designated player Antonio Nocerino was seen arguing with supporters on the way to the dressing rooms.
"Portland is not the type of team that is going to let you score a lot of goals on them. I think they haven't been as good defensively as they usually are but I mean they had Ridgewell back and you know they had their first choice backline for the most part so you know they are as strong team defensively and they sit deep and they don't give you a lot of space to play in behind. We were trying to play, trying to stretch them out a little bit, play a couple balls in behind to Brad and Gonzalo, try to use their speed but you know when a team sits deep there is not a lot of space and it it's tough to pick out those final passes. So that means we have to be better and sharper underneath you know with Sacha, Mike, Gonzalo, me, and Felipe. And you know for the most part we connected a lot of passes, but we didn't really hurt them."
Despite the nil-nil draw, Dax McCarty saw the match as a difficult one with plenty of opportunities.
“To have this happen to him is painful for everyone,” head coach Jesse Marsch told Red Bulls communications specialist Eric Giacometti.
The Red Bulls may have got Perrinelle back, but defender Gideon Baah will be out for 4-5 months to a broken tibia after his injury against Portland.
"It's an amazing feeling. First of all, like I said the other day, I want to say thank you to all my teammates, to all the Red Bulls staff and also this guy over there, Zubar. No, yeah, it's a really good feeling. I didn't expect to play this game but at the end, I was ready to play and it was nice. I was, I think only about the game. Only about the tactical thing I have to do. For me I was thinking of the game and sometimes when I jump, when I have an aerial dual with Adi, yes, when I step down with my knee I say "ok my knee is strong enough, I'm fine" but when I have the ball or when I have to run, I didn't think about my knee. "
Red Bulls defender Damien Perrinelle returned to the field after Gideon Baah got injured in the first half, and Perrinelle was impressive in his first start since his injury.
"Yeah, you know I said at the Copa America break that our team needed a break physically and we did. But then the season picked up and it was just game after game after game. The summer days can seem really long sometimes and the heat can hit and then we're -- but today I thought we actually had our legs and just couldn't quite get the final play right. So we'll get this thing going again. We'll get this going again. I'm not concerned about that."
After another MLS loss, the Red Bulls boss has not lost confidence in his striking group.
"Well, with Gonzalo on the field, there's a better ability to have flexibility with our tactics and if we play with two or three up front. You know we started with three. Then we switched to two and I thought actually that got us going a little bit at the end of the half. And then as -- then the first half you're trying to see if we can put a little play together. And also went back to three to try and get Sacha a little bit more underneath and Alex on the move to look at matchups to tactically make little adjustments so it can help the game and have us get better and ultimately unbalance the other team."
"You know; he was dangerous at moments. So I mean I thought he helped put a play together in the second half. He had a couple of plays in the first half where he's now on the move and going at guys and creating some danger. We switched from a three to two to try to give him a little bit more clarity up there as to how to move around."
After trading Lloyd Sam to DC United, Marsch gave Gonzalo Veron an opportunity to start against Portland.
"We could have made a bigger push earlier on in the second half," Marsch said at the post-match press conference. "Overall, on the day, we're just not quite good enough."
Red Bulls head coach Jesse Marsch would have liked to have seen the effort towards the Timbers; goal earlier in the half instead of a last minute push in extra time.
In their last match, the Red Bulls drew 0-0 at home with reigning MLS Cup champions the Portland Timbers. The Red Bulls continued their poor form in MLS action while the Timbers were able to keep their unbeaten streak alive, now at seven straight matches without a loss.
Hello and welcome to VAVEL USA's LIVE coverage of this evening's match out of MLS Regular Season action between the New York Red Bulls and Orlando City. My name is Josef Leizerowitz, and it is my pleasure to be taking you all through this evening's action. There's still quite a bit of time until kickoff, which is scheduled for 7:30 PM EST, so sit back, relax, and allow me to take you through the build up to this one.
