Taxi Fountas scored his fifth goal of the season after halftime to lift visiting D.C. United to a 1-0 victory over FC Dallas on Tuesday night in a meeting of teams missing their leading scorers.

Mateusz Klich provided his team-leading eighth assist on Fountas’ goal to earn D.C. (8-9-5, 29 points) its fourth away win of the season.

The Black-and-Red played for just the second time without team-leading scorer Christian Benteke, who served a one-match suspension for yellow-card accumulation.

Meanwhile, Dallas (8-8-5, 29 points) struggled to show attacking menace as they continued without their scoring leader Jesus Ferreira, who is away with the U.S. national team at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

The hosts outshot D.C. 11-8, but only put one of those efforts on target as they lost at home for the third time.

Dallas also saw striker Bernard Kamungo exit in the 64th minute with a possible head injury after a collision with D.C. defender Derrick Williams.

After a relatively uneventful first half, Fountas gave D.C. the lead somewhat against the second-half run of play in the 73rd minute.

The substitute Klich helped create the goal when he feigned a long-range shot, then slotted a pass to Fountas just inside the penalty area.

Fountas’ first shot appeared to strike the arm of sliding defender Sebastien Ibeagha. But referee Mark Allatin played the advantage as the rebound fell to Fountas, who curled in a gorgeous, right-footed finish that bent around the dive of Dallas goalkeeper Maarten Paes and off the inside of the far-right post.

Before and after that, FC Dallas had the better of the game’s sporadic chances, though they rarely made Bono work.

Kamungo probably had the best chance in the 16th minute when he ran onto a throughball over the top but was denied by Alex Bono with D.C.’s Williams pressuring.

Jader Obrian also missed the target on a couple of promising chances, including firing narrowly high from about 15 yards in the 89th minute after an excellent Dallas attack down the right.

Then deep in second-half stoppage time, Tsiki Ntsabeleng struck the crossbar with another promising effort from about 15 yards as D.C. held on.

–Field Level Media

Cesar Araujo collected a goal and an assist to lift host Orlando City to a convincing 4-0 victory over Toronto FC on Tuesday night.

Duncan McGuire scored in the first half and Dagur Thorhallsson and Ercan Kara converted in the second as Orlando City (9-5-7, 34 points) improved to 5-0-2 in their last seven matches against Toronto FC.

Pedro Gallese did not record an official save en route to notching his seventh clean sheet of the season and 26th of his career for the Lions, who are 4-0-3 in their last seven matches at home.

Orlando City held a decisive 8-2 advantage in corner kicks.

Greg Ranjitsingh finished with five saves for Toronto FC (3-9-10, 19 points), who have lost four in a row overall and saw their road winless stretch extend to 14 matches (0-10-4).

Toronto played with just 10 men after Federico Bernardeschi received a pair of yellow cards 15 minutes apart. Bernardeschi, who was whistled for a bad foul in the 47th minute and again in the 62nd minute, is tied for the team lead in both goals (three) and assists (four).

Rafael Santos’ cross was headed home at the back door by a diving Araujo to open the scoring in the 16th minute. Araujo’s goal was his first of his MLS career in his 51st match.

McGuire doubled the advantage six minutes later after he tapped home a deflected shot from Ivan Angulo at the left post. McGuire’s goal was his team-high-tying seventh of the season and third in his last five matches.

Thorhallsson scored his first career MLS goal after settling Araujo’s through ball and deking Ranjitsingh before scoring into an empty net in the 77th minute. Kara capped the scoring seven minutes later after scoring from the center of the box.

–Field Level Media