Revolution Beat Orlando City 4-2 With Two Stoppage-Time Goals as Carles Gil and Peyton Miller Bag Braces

Ten minutes. That was the stoppage-time number the fourth official put up at Gillette Stadium on Saturday night, and for a moment it felt like a gift to the wrong team. Orlando City SC had just erased a two-goal deficit, Martín Ojeda had just rolled in an 88th-minute penalty, and the New England Revolution were staring at a 2-2 draw in their first home game in nearly a month.

Then the Revs turned those 10 minutes into a highlight reel. Peyton Miller scored three minutes into stoppage time, Carles Gil added another three minutes later, and New England beat Orlando City 4-2 in front of 26,100 fans. Both stars finished with braces. Orlando finished with a long list of what-ifs.

A Slow Burn Before the Fireworks

For a game that ended with six goals, the first half was oddly tidy. Gil opened the scoring in the 19th minute, taking a pass from Jackson Yueill and hitting a left-footed shot from outside the box that found the top right corner. Orlando's match report called it a deflected effort. It counted all the same.

New England spent most of the half camped in Orlando's end. Maxime Crépeau had to deny Gil in the 35th minute, Miller in the 41st and Dor Turgeman in the 43rd, and the Revs collected six first-half corners. Orlando's best looks, from Ojeda and Marco Pasalic, were both handled by Matt Turner. It was 1-0 at the break, and it felt like it should have been more.

Three Goals in Half an Hour, Then Pure Chaos

The second New England goal arrived in the 59th minute on a fast break. Turgeman slipped Miller through, and the 18-year-old, fresh off the news of his first senior call-up to the U.S. Men's National Team, finished calmly through the middle of the goal.

Orlando answered three minutes later. A Justin Ellis pass meant for Ojeda ricocheted straight to Iván Angulo, who placed a right-footed finish into the bottom left corner. Per the club, that made it three goals in three league games for Angulo.

Then the night got weird. In the 82nd minute, a VAR review handed Orlando a penalty for a Miller handball in the box. By the time Ojeda stepped up it was the 88th minute, and he sent a left-footed kick into the bottom left corner for his team-leading 12th MLS goal of the season. Suddenly the Revs' homecoming party had a problem.

The fix came off the bench. Diego Fagúndez replaced Dániel Gazdag in the 89th minute, and three minutes into stoppage time he slid a through ball to Miller on another break. The teenager beat Crépeau from the right side of the box, then celebrated so hard that referee Sergii Boiko booked him for it. Worth it. (Both clubs' reports credit Ilay Feingold and Gil with the helpers on that one; ESPN's match data gives the assist to Fagúndez.)

Moments later the Revs were away again, Turgeman fed Gil, and Gil finished low from the center of the box to make it 4-2 six minutes into added time.

Gil and Miller Run the Show

Carles Gil finished with two goals on four shots, three of them on target. According to the Revolution, the brace took him to 12 goals this season, a new single-season career high with eight games still to play. The opener was a statement, and the dagger was pure composure in chaos.

Peyton Miller had the wildest stat line on the field: two goals, six shots, four on target, a yellow card for celebrating and the handball that gifted Orlando its penalty. That is an entire prestige TV season arc packed into one night, and he still ended it as the hero.

Dor Turgeman set up the second and fourth goals. Matt Turner made three saves, and Crépeau made five at the other end before the roof caved in.

For Orlando, Martín Ojeda scored from the spot and put two of his three shots on target. The club notes he is now one goal shy of Facundo Torres' club record of 47 goals across all competitions. Iván Angulo kept his hot streak alive with his fourth MLS goal of the season.

The Turning Point: Ten Minutes of Belief

The penalty should have been the moment Orlando stole the night. Instead, the stoppage-time board flipped it. Defender Ethan Kohler said the Revs felt confident before Ojeda even struck the ball.

"Before the penalty even went in, I said to Carles, 'We're going to score, no worries.' And as we all saw the 10 minutes, we knew we were going to win this game," Kohler said.

Head coach Marko Mitrović loved the response. "This group inspires me because it's easy to find excuses in life, but we are in a competitive environment where we have to find a way, and that's what they are doing," he said.

Orlando interim head coach Martín Perelman kept it simple. "We need to close these kinds of games," he said.

Stats That Matter

• Shots on target: New England 9, Orlando 5. The Revs put more than half of their 17 attempts on frame.
• Corners: 10 for New England, three for Orlando.
• Saves: Crépeau made five, Turner made three.
• Discipline: New England took all four of the game's yellow cards.
• Possession: Nearly even at 51.3 percent to 48.7 percent in New England's favor.

What It Means

New England moved to 14-4-8 with 46 points, and the club said the result lifted them to second in the Eastern Conference. It was their third straight league win after road victories at New York City FC and Chicago, and they have won five of their last seven.

Orlando fell to 10-4-12 with 34 points. Per the Lions, they remain sixth in the East with eight games left. The loss snapped a three-game MLS winning streak and came on short rest: Perelman noted that his team arrived off a Wednesday match while New England had a normal week. Orlando were also without Antoine Griezmann, who missed the match with a thigh injury.

Next up, the Revs visit Real Salt Lake on Sept. 26, and Orlando head to the Philadelphia Union the same night.

The Closing Take

Ten minutes of stoppage time is basically a bonus episode, and New England wrote the finale. Orlando did the hard part by climbing back from 2-0 down, then watched two fast breaks turn a hard-earned point into nothing. Brooklyn Raines summed up the Revs' mood in two short sentences: "We're never satisfied. We never give up."

Stats from ESPN's match data. Postgame quotes and club notes as reported by RevolutionSoccer.net and OrlandoCitySC.com.