Orlando City eliminated Charlotte this Saturday in the first round of the MLS playoff after scoring the tying goal 1-1 in the 102nd minute to force a penalty shootout in which the Peruvian team Pedro Gallese was the figure of the Florida team until sealing the 4-1 victory.
Pedro Gallese, the hero of Orlando City. MLS
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In this best-of-three series, the Orlando City won the first match 2-0 and Charlotte (fifth) responded in their stadium by winning the second on penalties (0-0, 3-1 in the shootout).
With the tie back in Orlando for the third and final match, the team in purple dominated the game but was unsuccessful despite their multiple chances and Charlottein a counterattack, seemed to end the series with a goal in the 81st minute from Poland’s Karol Swiderski.
Orlando City was already on vacation when in the 97th minute (eight had been added) Charlotte committed a penalty and, Already in the 102nd minute and after a VAR review, the Uruguayan Facundo Torres made it 1-1 with great emotion, since he missed from eleven meters but scored on the rebound.
In the batch, Gallese stopped Charlotte’s first two shots (from the Spaniard Pep Biel and Swiderski) and Orlando City earned its ticket to the next round.
Pedro Gallese, absent against Chile
The archer of the Bicolor will not stop before The Redbecause it is suspended. Everything indicates that the diver of the team led technically by Jorge Fossati before Argentina in La Bombonera.
