FC Cincinnati lost to New York City FC, 1-0, Saturday night at TQL Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Orange and Blue finish Matchday 30 in second place in the Eastern Conference at 16-8-4 (52 points). New York City FC improved to 13-8-5 (44 points).<\/p>\n
A turnover near the edge of Cincinnati\u2019s attacking third allowed the visitors to get into quick transition which led to their 55th minute goal. Alonso Mart\u00ednez broke loose for NYC and took one dribble out in front of three defenders before poking a shot past Roman Celentano toward the far post for the lone score of the match.<\/p>\n
The Orange and Blue stay at home next Saturday, August 30 for an Eastern Conference battle against Philadelphia Union. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET and the match airs on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV<\/a>. Radio will be carried on iHeart Media ESPN 1530<\/a> in English and in Spanish locally on La Mega 101.5 FM<\/a>.<\/p>\n GAME NOTES<\/strong> – Yuya Kubo entered as a second-half substitution, making his first appearance since June 25 at CF Montr\u00e9al. <\/p>\n – FC Cincinnati\u2019s next three home matches come against the other teams ranked within the top-four of the MLS Eastern Conference (Philadelphia Union, Nashville SC, Orlando City SC).<\/p>\n FC CINCINNATI GAME REPORT<\/strong> SCORING SUMMARY: 1-2-FT<\/strong> NYC \u2013<\/strong> Alonso Mart\u00ednez (Moralez) 55\u2019<\/p>\n LINEUPS<\/strong> Substitutes not used:<\/strong> Evan Louro, Gilberto Flores, Teenage Hadebe, Stefan Chirila, Stiven Jimenez <\/p>\n NYC:<\/strong> Matt Freese, Kevin O\u2019Toole, Justin Haak, Thiago Martins (C), Tayvon Gray, Andr\u00e9s Perea (Jonathan Shore 43\u2019), Aiden O\u2019Neill, Maxi Moralez (Juli\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez 81\u2019), Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez, Alonso Mart\u00ednez, Hannes Wolf (Agust\u00edn Ojeda 61\u2019)<\/p>\n Substitutes not used:<\/strong> Tom\u00e1s Romero, Strahinja Tanasijevi\u0107, Drew Baiera, M\u00e1ximo Carrizo, Mitja Ilenic, Seymour Reid <\/p>\n Head Coach:<\/strong> Pascal Jansen<\/p>\n STATS SUMMARY: CIN\/NYC<\/strong> MISCONDUCT SUMMARY<\/strong> OFFICIALS<\/strong>\u202f
– Saturday marked the eighth sellout of TQL Stadium this season. <\/p>\n
FC Cincinnati vs New York City FC<\/strong>
Date:<\/strong> August 23, 2025
Competition:<\/strong> MLS Regular Season
Venue:<\/strong> TQL Stadium | Cincinnati, Ohio
Attendance:<\/strong> 25,513 (sellout)
Kickoff:<\/strong> 7:40 p.m. ET
Weather:<\/strong> 77 degrees, cloudy<\/p>\n
CIN:<\/strong> 0-0-0
NYC:<\/strong> 0-1-1<\/p>\n
CIN:<\/strong> Roman Celentano, Brad Smith (Kenji Mboma Dem 46\u2019, Yuya Kubo 82\u2019), Lukas Engel, Matt Miazga (C), Nick Hagglund, Alvas Powell (Kei Kamara 70\u2019), Pavel Bucha, Tah Brian Anunga (Gerardo Valenzuela 71\u2019), Evander, Ender Echenique, K\u00e9vin Denkey<\/p>\n
Shots:<\/strong> 10 \/ 9
Shots on Goal:<\/strong> 5 \/ 4
Saves:<\/strong> 3 \/ 5
Corner Kicks:<\/strong> 4 \/ 4
Fouls:<\/strong> 8 \/ 11
Offside:<\/strong> 3 \/ 2
Possession:<\/strong> 47.8 \/ 52.2 <\/p>\n
NYC \u2013 Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez (Yellow Card) 29\u2019
NYC \u2013 Agust\u00edn Ojeda (Yellow Card) 63\u2019
NYC \u2013 Kevin O\u2019Toole (Yellow Card) 89\u2019<\/p>\n
Referee:<\/strong> Victor Rivas
Ast. Referees:<\/strong> Kathryn Nesbitt, Micheal Barwegen
Fourth Official:<\/strong> Matthew Corrigan
VAR:<\/strong> Younes Marrakchi
AVAR:<\/strong> Brian Dunn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Cincinnati lost to New York City FC, 1-0, Saturday night at TQL Stadium. The Orange and Blue…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,97591,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-170758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cinvsnyc-08-23-2025","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115081665871184398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}