Orlando City SC vs New York City FC 2-2

Orlando City SC and New York City FC drew 2-2 after Orlando twice came from behind and then held on when New York City missed a penalty in the 81st minute. The visitors also had the better numbers, but they could not turn that into a winner.

New York City FC opened the scoring in the 18th minute through Alonso Martinez, who finished from Hannes Wolf’s assist for 0-1. Orlando levelled in the 32nd minute when Antoine Griezmann scored from Martin Ojeda’s pass, and the half-time score was 1-1.

Orlando moved ahead in the 49th minute through Martin Ojeda, with Vinicius Nogueira providing the assist for 2-1. The home side then made two changes in the 71st minute, and New York City FC also made two changes at the same time, before the visitors missed the penalty and sent on Malachi Jones and Bénie Adama Traoré in the 82nd minute in another double change. Orlando later replaced Martin Ojeda with Daryl Dike in the 83rd minute, but New York City still found a way back to keep the point.

New York City FC had 66% possession, 490 passes to Orlando’s 397 and 17 shots to 10, with 7 on target to 4 and 1.68 expected goals to 0.76. They also won 9 corners to 3 and made 5 saves to 2, while Orlando committed 16 fouls to New York City’s 12 and were caught offside none times to four.

Orlando’s bookings went to Vinicius Nogueira in the 38th minute, Iago Teodoro in the 63rd, Wilder Cartagena in the 78th and Eduard Atuesta in the 86th. New York City FC had one yellow card, for James Sands in the 44th minute.