Kelvin Yeboah’s brace and a goal and an assist by Anthony Markanich keyed a 15-minute second-half comeback as Minnesota United defeated the host Columbus Crew 3-2 on Saturday.

Markanich broke a 2-2 tie in the 74th minute off a throw-in when he scored on a header off a cross by Nectarios Triantis.

After Taha Habroune in the 31st and Hugo Picard in the 56th staked the Crew to a 2-0 lead, Yeboah scored from corner-kick setups in the 59th and 66th minutes as Minnesota (6-3-2, 20 points) moved to 5-1-1 in its past seven league matches.

The Crew (3-5-3, 12 points) had won two straight and looked to be cruising until their collapse, falling to 2-2-2 at home.

Habroune, the 20-year-old homegrown player, worked a give-and-go in tight space with Max Arfsten at the top right corner of the box for his second career goal in 33 matches.

Arfsten heeled the ball to Habroune, who rocketed a shot to the upper right corner. Arfsten has three goals and four assists in the past seven matches.

Picard scored his first career goal in his 19th MLS match after having scored four goals in two U.S. Open Cup matches this season, including two vs. USL One club One Knoxville on Wednesday.

He scored on a rebound of his own shot that was blocked by Loons defender Jefferson Diaz.

The Minnesota rally started when Yeboah slid between two defenders and right-footed a flick by Markanich.

Yeboah made it 2-2 when he had an open header from a corner kick by Joaquin Pereyra. Of Yeboah’s seven goals, five have come on the road where the Loons are 4-2-1.

Minnesota’s Colombian international midfielder James Rodriguez did not play due to “a previously scheduled routine medical procedure — not related to any injury,” according to the club. He practiced Friday morning and will rejoin the team next week.

–Field Level Media

Saba Lobjanidze scored a brace and Emmanuel Latte Lath netted the match-winner late in the first half as Atlanta United defeated visiting CF Montreal 3-1 on Saturday evening.

Alexey Miranchuk had two assists while Pedro Amador and Cooper Sanchez added an assist apiece for Atlanta (3-7-1, 10 points), which won its third straight match across all competitions and second straight in MLS play. It also snapped a four-match home winless streak (0-3-1).

Montreal (3-7-0, 9 points) saw a two-match win streak come to an end while its road losing streak reached four. It also finished the match with 10 men after Brayan Vera received a red card in the first minute of second-half stoppage time.

Latte Lath put Atlanta ahead in the sixth minute of first-half stoppage time thanks to an interception by Sanchez. The Ivorian striker played a ball forward to Miranchuk, then scored on Miranchuk’s return pass to make it 2-1.

Lobjanidze upped Atlanta United’s lead to 3-1 in the 50th minute, scoring off Sanchez’s assist.

Atlanta equalized in the 41st minute with Lobjanidze’s first goal of the year. After receiving a pass from Miranchuk, Lobjanidze’s shot deflected off Montreal goalkeeper Thomas Gillier’s hand and trickled past the goal line, tying the match at 1.

Matty Longstaff scored Montreal’s lone goal of the evening in the sixth minute.

Lucas Hoyos finished the evening with four saves. Gillier stopped two Atlanta shots.

Atlanta United won back-to-back MLS regular-season matches for the first time since May 25 and 28, 2025. They have outscored opponents 7-2 during their win streak.

Montreal lost for the first time under interim head coach Phillipe Eullaffroy.

Miranchuk has two goals and two assists in his last three matches across all competitions.

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Martin Ojeda scored his second career MLS hat trick, Tyrese Spicer pounced for a winner in second-half stoppage time and visiting Orlando City rallied from three goals down to a historic 4-3 victory over Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami on Saturday night.

Orlando (3-7-1, 10 points) became only the third team in MLS history to win a regular season match after going three goals behind, the first since the LA Galaxy in 2018. The unlikely comeback extended Miami’s wait for a first win in its recently opened Nu Stadium to at least a fifth match, after drawing the first three and losing to its Florida Derby rivals.

Messi had a goal and two assists for Miami (5-2-4, 19 points), which saw its 12-match unbeaten run in all competitions snapped. Telasco Segovia also scored and had two assists, Ian Fray scored the early goal and Luis Suarez also had two assists for the Herons.

But Ojeda outdueled his more famous Argentine countryman, leveling his third goal in the 79th minute from the penalty spot after referee Guido Gonzalez ruled Maximiliano Falcon had pushed down Iago Teodoro during an Orlando corner-kick sequence.

Ojeda hesitated to get Dayne St. Clair to lunge to the right, then finished to the left for a stunning equalizer that came 46 minutes after Messi had given Miami a three-goal lead.

Then in second-half stoppage time, Ojeda was present in a dummy capacity as Braian Ojeda played a throughball from deep in his own half for Spicer.

The halftime substitute finished hard and low through the legs of St. Clair to complete one of the most unlikely victories in MLS history.

Martin Ojeda’s first goal came in the 39th minute. Justin Ellis provided the final pass, but it was mostly Ojeda creating the shot himself, spinning to elude a defender and then unleashing a ferocious left-footed strike that beat Clair to the bottom-left corner.

The second came in the 68th after Adrian Marin’s impressive slaloming run up the left. The result was similar, this time Ojeda hitting the inside of the right post with a perfectly placed shot that left St. Clair rooted to the ground.

Miami harassed Orlando throughout the opening hour and quickly built a three-goal lead.

In the fourth minute, after the Herons failed to put away one dangerous chance, Messi recycled the ball on the left and laid it off for Segovia, whose cross picked out Fray’s head at the 6-yard box.

A Messi give-and-go with Suarez set up a tap-in for Sevogia in the 25th minute. And then Messi found the bottom-left corner from the edge of the penalty area in the 33rd.

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Zavier Gozo and Diego Luna scored in the first half as Real Salt Lake snapped a two-game losing streak with a stress-free 2-0 victory over the Portland Timbers Saturday in Sandy, Utah.

Juan Manuel Sanabria assisted on both goals for RSL (6-3-1, 19 points) who are off to their best start since 2014 when they opened without a loss in their first 12 MLS matches.

Rafael Cabral had two saves for Salt Lake, which avenged a 3-1 season-ending defeat last October at Portland in the wild-card round of the MLS playoffs.

James Pantemis had 13 saves for the Timbers (3-6-1, 10 points) as he kept RSL from turning the match into a rout.

Real Salt Lake dominated from the start as they uncorked seven shots before the Timbers took their first attempt in the 26th minute.

After scoring one goal in the previous 225 minutes entering the game, Salt Lake repeatedly found transition opportunities with through passes against Portland’s careless back line.

Sanabria set up the first goal in the 10th minute with a long feed through the Portland defense that found Sergi Solans in stride down the middle of the pitch.

Streaking down the right wing, Gozo ran onto a laid-off pass and fired a right-footed shot from inside the box. Pantemis got a hand on the ball inside the near post but couldn’t stop it as Gozo tallied his third goal of the season.

Real Salt Lake continued their assault as Morgan Guilavogui took three promising shots in a span of seven high-paced minutes.

Pantemis made a save on a Guilavogui breakaway attempt and the RSL forward banged a shot off the crossbar and was wide right on another right-footed blast in the sequence.

Salt Lake broke through in the 28th minute on a one-two on the left side of the box, as Luna took a return pass from Sanabria and scored with a left-footed shot inside the far post for his third goal of the season and a 2-0 lead.

Luna’s goal came immediately after Portland’s lone shots on goal, one minute apart. Cabral stopped a header by Kevin Kelsy, then denied a low-percentage try by Antony Alves Santos.

In the second half, Real Salt Lake slowed the pace, happy to play in a defensive shell, which prevented the Timbers from taking a shot on goal.

–Field Level Media

Dejan Joveljic scored his fifth goal of the season and Sporting Kansas City salvaged a 1-1 draw against the Seattle Sounders on Saturday afternoon to snap a six-match losing streak.

Joveljic’s 18th-minute tally halted a 351-minute scoreless stretch across all competitions for Sporting (1-7-2, 5 points), which has still won only twice in its last 23 MLS matches dating back to last July.

Paul Rothrock scored his fourth goal of the season early as Seattle (6-1-2, 20 points) saw its league win streak halted at three but extended its league unbeaten run to seven.

The visitors held 61% of the possession and outshot the hosts 27-11 but were punished for an uncharacteristic mistake by American World Cup hopeful Cristian Roldan.

Rothrock put the visitors in front two minutes into the match.

Alex Roldan got up the right and played an early diagonal ball from midfield toward Jesus Ferreira in the center channel.

Either Ferreira, his defender or both players deflected the ball, and Rothrock was first to the redirection on the left side of the penalty, where he guided a first-time finish across Stefan Cleveland’s body and inside the far-right post.

Joveljic leveled 16 minutes later.

As Seattle tried to play out of the back against Kansas City’s creeping pressure, Cristian Roldan badly mis-hit a backpass that appeared intended for his goalkeeper.

Joveljic reacted to reach it at the top of the penalty arc and drove a low, first-time finish through goalkeeper Andrew Thomas and over the line.

Both teams had chances to win it after halftime despite Seattle’s possession dominance.

Sounders striker Danny Musovski flashed a promising header over the goal in the 57th minute, and in the 65th, Seattle substitute Paul Arriola saw his strike from a dangerous position on the left blocked accidentally by teammate Albert Rusnak.

In the 70th minute, Cleveland recovered from his own bobble on the initial attempt to make a double save of Kalani Kossa-Rienzi and Musovski.

On the other end, Thomas thwarted Joveljic in the 82nd minute and Taylor Calheira on a difficult, spinning effort inside the box in the 85th.

–Field Level Media