Nashville SC got back to winning ways in Major League Soccer with an impressive 3-1 victory over Eastern Conference rivals Atlanta United on Saturday.

The Tennessee side, fourth in the East, had been without a win in their past three outings while Atlanta, a place above them in the conference standings, went into the match on a four-game unbeaten run.

Nashville took the lead, against the run of play, in the 36th minute when playmaker Hany Mukhtar whipped in a corner across the face of the goal that was turned in at the back post by Fafa Picault.

Mukhtar created the second for Gary Smith's side 11 minutes after the interval, breaking down the inside left channel before his low shot was parried out by Atlanta goalkeeper Clement Diop and Teal Bunbury was on hand it turn in the loose ball.

Atlanta got back in the game in the 72nd minute when, after a video review found that Dax McCarty brought down Brazilian Matheus Rossetto in the box, Argentine World Cup winner Thiago Almada converted from the penalty spot for his fifth goal of the season.

But Nashville secured the three points in stoppage time when Mukhtar, again the provider, fed substitute Jacob Shaffelburg and the Canadian raced clear and coolly slotted home.

Later on Saturday, the top two teams in the MLS standings, the New England Revolution and FC Cincinnati, clash in Foxborough while the Western Conference leaders, expansion club St. Louis City, host the Portland Timbers.