Watch: Pirlo's perfect free-kick rounds out DP hat trick for NYCFC

It's all coming together for manager Patrick Vieira.

The New York City FC boss was able to start his Designated Player trio - David Villa, Andrea Pirlo, and Frank Lampard - for the first time this season, and all three promptly found the back of the net against Philadelphia.

Lampard, finally recovered from a series of niggling injury concerns, kicked off the party with a close-range finish before Villa doubled his side's lead; it would've been the Spaniard's second of the day, too, had an audacious lob from the halfway line not clipped the crossbar in the 12th minute.

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Pirlo put the cherry on top, firing home a trademark free-kick that goes down as his first-ever goal in Major League Soccer.