Post-Game Notes: Red Bulls Defeat Atlanta United FC, 2-0, on Saturday Night
New York Red Bulls 2, Atlanta United FC 0
2025 MLS Regular Season Match 17
Saturday, May 31, 2025 – 7:30 p.m. ET
Sports Illustrated Stadium | Harrison, N.J.
Box Score: https://www.mlssoccer.com/competitions/mls-regular-season/2025/matches/rbnyvsatl-05-31-2025/stats
Scoring Summary:
NY – Cameron Harper 3 (unassisted) 3’
NY – Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting 10 (Harper, Hack) 29’
Misconduct Summary:
NY – Kyle Duncan (caution, foul) 26’
ATL – Matthew Edwards (caution, foul) 34’
NY – Daniel Edelman (caution, foul) 45’
NY – Alexander Hack (caution, foul) 61’
ATL – Bartosz Slisz (caution, foul) 78’
NY – Raheem Edwards (caution, foul) 90’+6
New York Red Bulls: Carlos Coronel; Omar Valencia (Raheem Edwards, 81’), Alexander Hack, Noah Eile, Kyle Duncan (Sean Nealis, 83’) , Daniel Edelman, Peter Stroud, Wiki Carmona (Mohammed Sofo, 74’), Cameron Harper (Dennis Gjengaar, 73’), Emil Forsberg © (Serge Ngoma, 83’), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
Unused Subs: A.J. Marcucci, Tim Parker, Ronald Donkor, Wiktor Bogacz
TOTAL SHOTS: 8; SHOTS ON GOAL: 4; FOULS: 13; CORNER KICKS: 1; SAVES: 3
Atlanta United FC: Brad Guzan ©; Matt Edwards, Derrick Williams, Luis Abram (Noah Cobb, HT), Saba Lobjanidze (Edwin Mosquera, 75’), Pedro Amador (Brooks Lennon, HT), Alexey Miranchuk, Jay Fortune (Mateusz Klich, HT), Bartosz Slisz, Miguel Almiron (Jamal Thiare, 60’), Emmanuel Latte Lah
Unused Subs: Luke Brennan, Jayden Hibbert, Will Reilly, Ronald Hernandez
TOTAL SHOTS: 10; SHOTS ON GOAL: 3; FOULS: 11; CORNER KICKS: 8; SAVES: 2
Referee: Marcos DeOliveira II
AR1: Corey Parker
AR2: Eric Weisbrod
4th Official: Jeremy Scheer
VAR: Timothy Ford
AVAR: Mike Kampmeinert
Attendance: 20,187
- New York Red Bulls (8-6-3, 27 pts.) defeated Atlanta United FC (4-8-5, 17 pts.), 2-0, on Saturday night at Sports Illustrated Stadium.
- The Red Bulls opened the scoring in the third minute, when an errant back pass by Atlanta found the foot of midfielder Cameron Harper, who drove into the box and fired a left-footed shot past Atlanta goalkeeper Brad Guzan.
- New York added a second in the 29th minute, when defender Alexander Hack played a through ball past Atlanta’s backline into the path of Harper, who slid a ball across Atlanta’s eighteen-yard box to forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, who placed his shot in the bottom left corner.
- Harper scored his third MLS goal of the season and the 12th of his MLS career.
- Harper has recorded four goal contributions in his last six MLS appearances.
- The Roseville, California native reached 5,000 MLS minutes played in tonight’s match.
- The goal in the third minute (2:38) was the fastest scored by New York this season and the fastest since June 18, 2022 against Toronto FC, by Lewis Morgan in the second minute (1:50).
- Choupo-Moting scored his 10th MLS goal of the season, which ranks tied for third in MLS.
- Choupo-Moting has scored five MLS goals in his last three matches at Sports Illustrated Stadium.
- The Cameroon international became the fifth different player in club history to record at least 10 goals in the club’s first 17 games of a season and the first since Bradley Wright-Phillips in 2018.
- Harper tallied his second MLS assist of the season and the seventh of his MLS career.
- The midfielder recorded his first career multi-goal contribution match in MLS.
- Hack tallied his first career MLS assist and his second across all competitions this season.
- Defender Kyle Duncan made his 150th career appearance across all competitions for New York and becomes the sixth defender in franchise history to reach the milestone.
- The Red Bulls have earned 22 points in their first nine home matches of the season, which ranks tied for the first most points earned at home through the club’s first nine home games in franchise history (2001, 2018).
- New York have earned 500 points at home since 2010, which is the most in the MLS during that timespan.
- The Red Bulls have extended their unbeaten streak against Atlanta United FC at home to nine matches across all competitions.
- Goalkeeper Carlos Coronel earned his seventh MLS shutout of the season and the 42nd of his MLS career. His seven shutouts this season ranks tied for second in MLS.
- Coronel has now recorded four career shutouts against Atlanta United FC.
- Following Saturday’s match, there will be a FIFA International break that will run from June 2 to June 10, following that New York will return to action on Saturday, June 14 against Austin FC at Q2 Stadium. Kickoff is set for 8:30 p.m. ET with coverage on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV in English and Spanish, and New York Red Bulls Radio presented by Sports Illustrated in English via the New York Red Bulls app and NewYorkRedBulls.com.
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