Red Bulls Tie, but Lose Ground The Red Bulls and host Toronto each scored a goal in the first six minutes of their game Saturday night, playing to a 1-1 tie at BMO Field. Jan Gunnar Solli, playing again in the Red Bulls" midfield, scored a goal for the second straight game (after not having scored in his Red Bulls career, now in its second season) for a 1-0 lead four minutes into the match. Solli hit a side-footed volley from a long, diagonal cross from Brandon Barklage on the right side. "Perfect cross from Brandon and I ran in behind and we score and good goal, unfortunately we concede a goal right after," Solli said. Toronto, which began the season on a nine-game losing streak that cost Aron Winter his job as coach, struck back two minutes later. Danny Koevermans slipped Solli's marking and put his head to a corner from Torsten Frings. Red Bulls goalkeeper Ryan Meara seemed to react a millisecond too slow as he fought the sharp, early-evening sun. "I'll take my part of the blame for that goal, it should never have happened," Solli added in an audio file provided by the Red Bulls. Koevermans gets up way too easily. It's my responsibility to cover him so I'm not happy with that performance.: Although the Red Bulls (9-4-4; 6-1-3 in the last 10 games) took a point on the road, they lost ground to D.C. United, which defeated visiting Montreal, 3-0. D.C. United leads the Red Bulls by two points in Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference, but has played one extra game. The Red Bulls came close again in the late in the first half when it appeared that Kenny Cooper tipped Joel Lindpere's cross before it hit off the bottom of the near goal post behind keeper Milos Kocic. Toronto escaped unscathed in the second half when Thierry Henry, who played the full 90 minutes, found a cutting Lindpere with a lead pass into the Toronto penalty area. But defender Logan Emory recovered and knocked the ball away as Lindpere went to ground, finally colliding with Kocic. The Red Bulls appealed for a penalty, but the referee Ricardo Salazar allowed play to continue. Multiple MSG Network replays showed that Emory left his feet before connecting with the ball. Was it a penalty? It looked that way (see the 5:30 mark below). "We had a very good start, but I think we were not focused on their corner kick," Red Bulls Coach Hans Backe said. It was a little bit sloppy. When you start like that on the road, starting point is to defend well, then we should have won this game. The set plays are a handful. Backe added, "Overall, I would say on the road with a team that has definitely bounced back, I can definitely live with one point." Notes Wilman Conde, who has been dogged by injuries in his first season with the Red Bulls, played 82 minutes. ... Heath Pearce left late in the game with what appeared to be a hamstring injury. ... Joel Lindpere was lifted in the 79th minute, after his close encounter in the penalty area. ... Mehdi Ballouchy, who is from Morocco, again did not make the trip to Canada because of "visa problems." ... The Red Bulls play at New England next Sunday. ... On Thierry Henry's performance, Backe said: "He will need games now, he's been away quite a long time. It surprised me he was able to deal with the 90. Follow Jack Bell on Twitter.