FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Prince Owusu, Dante Sealy and Olger Escobar each scored a goal on Friday night to help CF Montreal beat the New England Revolution 3-1 to snap a four-game winless streak.
Montreal (4-15-6) went into the game with 15 points this season, fewest in MLS.
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New England Revolution midfielder Matt Polster, below, and CF Montréal forward Prince Osei Owusu, top right, collide while pursing the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
New England Revolution forward Tomás Chancalay (7) celebrates after scoring in front of CF Montréal defender Brandan Craig (5) during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
New England Revolution forward Tomás Chancalay (7) kicks the ball into the net to score in front of CF Montréal defender Brandan Craig (5) during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
CF Montréal forward Dante Sealy, left, and New England Revolution defender Peyton Miller, right, vie for control of the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Caden Clark tapped a one-touch pass from just outside the area toward the penalty spot and Sealy slammed home a first-timer to give Montreal a 2-1 lead in the 36th. Clark, a 22-year-old midfielder in his fifth MLS season, has a career-high tying four assists this season.
After Jonathan Sirois punched away an arcing cross near the right post and fell to the ground, Luca Langoni skipped a shot from the right-center of the area that was blocked at the goal line by Joel Waterman in the 85th.
New England (6-11-7) is winless, with five losses, in its last six.
Sirois had one save, a diving one-hand stop of a shot by Chancalay, that was deflected by Bugaj, in the 53rd.
Tomás Chancalay gave the Revolution a 1-0 lead with a a first-touch finish from the center of the area in the third minute. Chancalay has scored in back-to-back games for the second time in his three-year MLS career.
Owusu, on the counter-attack, stopped a low entry pass played by Dawid Bugaj with his right foot as he held off a defender with his hip. Owusu then turned and scored on a rising second-touch shot with his left foot as he fell to the ground to make it 1-1 in the ninth minute. Owusu has scored seven of his 11 goals this season in the past eight games.
Olger, who made his fourth career appearance, capped the scoring in the fifth minute of stoppage time with his first goal in MLS.
The Revolution's Brayan Ceballos (yellow card accumulation) served a one-game suspension.
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New England Revolution midfielder Matt Polster, below, and CF Montréal forward Prince Osei Owusu, top right, collide while pursing the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
New England Revolution forward Tomás Chancalay (7) celebrates after scoring in front of CF Montréal defender Brandan Craig (5) during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
New England Revolution forward Tomás Chancalay (7) kicks the ball into the net to score in front of CF Montréal defender Brandan Craig (5) during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
CF Montréal forward Dante Sealy, left, and New England Revolution defender Peyton Miller, right, vie for control of the ball during the first half of an MLS soccer match, Friday, July 25, 2025, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Journalists, editors and owners of media outlets in Bangladesh on Saturday demanded that authorities protect them following recent attacks on two leading national dailies by mobs.
They said the media industry in the South Asian country is being systematically targeted in the interim government headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. They said the administration failed to prevent attacks on the Daily Star, the country’s leading English-language daily, and the Prothom Alo, the largest Bengali-language newspaper, both based in Dhaka, the capital.
In December, angry mobs stormed the offices of the two newspapers and set fire to the buildings, trapping journalists and other staff inside, shortly after the death of a prominent Islamist activist.
The newspaper authorities blamed the authorities under the interim government for failing to adequately respond to the incidents despite repeated requests for help to disperse the mobs. Hours later, the trapped journalists who took shelter on the roof of the Daily Star newspaper were rescued. The buildings were looted. A leader of the Editors Council, an independent body of newspaper editors, was manhandled by the attackers when he arrived at the scene.
On the same day, liberal cultural centers were also attacked in Dhaka.
It was not clear why the protesters attacked the newspapers, whose editors are known to be closely connected with Yunus. Protests had been organized in recent months outside the offices of the dailies by Islamists who accused the newspapers of links with India.
On Saturday, the Editors Council and the Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh jointly organized a conference where editors, journalist union leaders and journalists from across the country demanded that the authorities uphold the free press amid rising tensions ahead of elections in February.
Nurul Kabir, President of the Editors Council, said attempts to silence media and democratic institutions reflect a dangerous pattern.
Kabir, also the editor of the English-language New Age daily, said unity among journalists should be upheld to fight such a trend.
“Those who want to suppress institutions that act as vehicles of democratic aspirations are doing so through laws, force and intimidation,” he said.
After the attacks on the two dailies in December, an expert of the United Nations said that mob attacks on leading media outlets and cultural centers in Bangladesh were deeply alarming and must be investigated promptly and effectively.
“The weaponization of public anger against journalists and artists is dangerous at any time, and especially now as the country prepares for elections. It could have a chilling effect on media freedom, minority voices and dissenting views with serious consequences for democracy,” Irene Khan said in a statement.
Yunus came to power after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid a mass uprising in August, 2024. Yunus had promised stability in the country, but global human rights groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have blamed the government for its failure to uphold human and other civil rights. The Yunus-led regime has also been blamed for the rise of the radicals and Islamists.
Dozens of journalists are facing murder charges linked to the uprising on the grounds that they encouraged the government of Hasina to use lethal weapons against the protesters. Several journalists who are known to have close links with Hasina have been arrested and jailed under Yunus.
Journalists, editors and owners of media outlets gather at a conference demanding protection after recent attacks on two major newspapers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
Journalists, editors and owners of media outlets gather at a conference demanding protection after recent attacks on two major newspapers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
FILE - A girl rescues books from a shop near the Prothom Alo daily newspaper which was set on fire by protesters after news reached the country from Singapore of the death of a prominent activist Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu, File)
