Andres Reyes and Cory Burke scored first-half goals to lead the New York Red Bulls to a 2-1 victory over visiting CF Montreal on Saturday night.
Defender Joel Waterman answered six minutes later for Montreal (5-8-0) when he took a pass from George Campbell and scored for the first time this season to knot the score at 1.
The Red Bulls regained the lead in the 38th minute on a goal by Burke. Cristian Casseres Jr. notched an assist on Burke’s second netter of the campaign.
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—@NewYorkRedBulls
The two clubs have alternated wins in the last eight match-ups. Montreal beat the Red Bulls 2-0 earlier this season. Montreal has beaten New York twice in the same season just once — in 2019.
Carlos Coronel turned away one shot in goal for the Red Bulls. Jonathan Sirois saved four shots for Montreal.
The Red Bulls (3-4-7) improved to 3-0-1 in all competitions under new coach Troy Lesesne. Waterman’s goal was the first allowed by the Red Bulls since Lesesne replaced Gerhard Struber.
Montreal has lost seven of its last eight on the road, the first six by shutouts.
The Red Bulls travel to play the Seattle Sounders on Saturday. Montreal returns home to host Inter Miami on Saturday.
Zardes’s late strike leads Austin FC past Toronto FC
Substitute Gyasi Zardes scored in stoppage time to give Austin FC a 1-0 victory over injury-ravaged Toronto FC on Saturday in the first-ever meeting between the MLS clubs.
Substitute Adam Lundkvist’s cross was not cleared with Nick Lima’s ensuing backward header hitting the crossbar. The ball came back to Zardes who headed it home for his 99th career MLS goal.
The goal had been a long time coming. Austin outshot the visitors 16-4 (3-0 in shots on target).
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—@AustinFC
Toronto, meanwhile, has not scored in league play since C.J. Sapong’s strike in a 1-0 win over New York City FC on April 29 — a drought of 304 minutes.
Toronto (2-5-7) has won just one of its last 11 games (1-5-5) in all competitions. It is winless in its last five outings (0-4-1) during which it has been outscored 7-1.
TFC had yet to win on the road this season (0-4-3) and is 2-15-7 away from home in league play since the beginning of last year. Its last road win was Aug. 27 in Charlotte.
In all, Toronto was missing 10 players through injury or suspension.
The TFC injury list also included defenders Sigurd Rosted and Shane O’Neill, midfielders Michael Bradley, Jonathan Osorio, Alonso Coello and Victor Vazquez and forwards Adama Diomande and Deandre Kerr. Midfielder/forward Jahkeele Marshall Rutty was suspended.
Toronto hosts D.C. United next Saturday.
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