Orlando beat Bulls to extend unbeaten streak to nine games

LOS ANGELES: Junior Urso scored the eventual winning goal in the 50th minute as Orlando City SC defeated the New York Red Bulls 3-1 on Saturday to extend their unbeaten streak to nine games.

Orlando City improved to 8-2-5 on the Major League Soccer season and now have six wins, no losses and three draws in their last nine games.

Urso scored ater a turnover by New York defender Jason Pendant to give Orlando City a 2-0 lead. Urso raced ahead and took a pass from Chris Mueller before blasting a shot into the let side of the New York goal.

Antonio Carlos and Daryl Dike also scored for Orlando City. Carlos scored in the final minute of stoppage time ater officials used video review to overturn an offside call.

Orlando drew first blood, scoring in the 24th minute on a strong passing sequence which moved the ball to Dike. Dike eluded New York defender Aaron Long in the centre of the box and put a header past David Jensen.

Florian Valot scored the only goal for New York following a defensive miscue by Orlando City defender Kamal Miller. Miller’s atempted clearing pass was intercepted by Valot, who traded passes with Daniel Royer before finishing off the scoring play.

The loss ended the Red Bulls’ win modest streak at two games. They dropped to 6-7-2 on the season with 20 points.

New York had 11 shots but only three on goal. Red Bulls goalkeeper Jensen made two saves.

Meanwhile, Joao Paulo scored early in the second and the Seatle Sounders scored all their goals ater haltime in a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night.

The match was a home game for Vancouver and was played at Century Link Field.

Paulo scored in the 46th minute from about 20 yards out to put Seatle (8-3-3) up 1-0. Seven minutes later, Vancouver’s Erik Godoy scored an own goal in an atempt to clear a center in front of the net. Raul Ruidiaz scored his ninth goal of the season in the 58th minute on a header off a corner kick.

Freddy Montero got Vancouver (5-10-0) on the board when he scored on a penalty kick in the 65th minute.