{"id":189008,"date":"2025-08-31T08:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/189008\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:09:59","slug":"match-recap-new-york-city-fc-1-2-d-c-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/189008\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Recap | New York City FC 1-2 D.C. United\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City FC Goals:<\/strong> Haak 19′<\/p>\n

D.C. United Goals:<\/strong> Pirani 43′, 77′<\/p>\n

\n Quick Read<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York City FC lost 2-1 to D.C. United at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. Justin Haak opened the scoring in the 19th minute, but Gabriel Pirani struck just before halftime to level the game. The Brazilian then put D.C. United ahead midway through the second half, and despite late pressure, New York City were unable to find an equalizer.<\/p>\n

\n Match Recap<\/p>\n

New York City FC were back in action on Saturday as they hosted D.C. United.<\/p>\n

The hosts entered the contest looking to extend their five game unbeaten run, while United arrived eager to build on consecutive draws under new Head Coach Ren\u00e9 Weiler.<\/p>\n

Pascal Jansen stuck with the same lineup that had beaten FC Cincinnati last time out\u2014a decision that quickly paid dividends as City started the brighter of the two sides, dictating the tempo from the opening whistle.<\/p>\n

In the eighth minute, Hannes Wolf stung the palms of former teammate Luis Barraza in the D.C. goal. At the other end, Aaron Herrera carved out United\u2019s first look of the night, but his strike was comfortably gathered by Matt Freese.<\/p>\n

City\u2019s dominance soon told. After controlling the early exchanges, they broke through in the 19th minute when Maxi Moralez flicked the ball cleverly into the path of Justin Haak, who slid a precise finish from the edge of the area.<\/p>\n

United were handed a good opportunity to equalize from a free kick on the half-hour mark, but the resulting strike cannoned into the wall. Wolf nearly doubled City\u2019s advantage in the 41st minute, only for Lucas Bartlett to throw himself in the way of his shot.<\/p>\n

That miss proved costly: moments later Gabriel Pirani collected the ball on the edge of the box and curled a pinpoint effort in off the post to level the match.<\/p>\n

The second half opened with Jo\u00e3o Peglow flashing an effort wide of Freese\u2019s goal. City responded in the 56th minute through Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez Mercau, who wriggled into space inside the area and forced Barraza into a sharp save.<\/p>\n

The lively playmaker tested him again six minutes later, earning a corner from which Andr\u00e9s Perea saw a drive blocked as the hosts kept up the pressure.<\/p>\n

Despite controlling large spells of possession, City were stung in the 77th minute when Pirani struck again. Released by a threaded pass from Christian Benteke, he burst clear of Haak and coolly slotted beyond Freese to complete his brace.<\/p>\n

Jansen turned to his bench in search of a response, introducing Agust\u00edn Ojeda for Wolf before sending on Juli\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez in place of Kevin O\u2019Toole five minutes later.<\/p>\n

City almost found their equalizer in the 84th minute when Aiden O\u2019Neill let fly from distance. His shot took a wicked deflection, wrong-footing Barraza, but the goalkeeper reacted sharply to palm it behind for a corner.<\/p>\n

New York City pushed hard until the final whistle, but could not find an equalizer and were forced to settle for a disappointing 2-1 defeat at home.<\/p>\n

\n What’s Next<\/p>\n

Next up for New York City FC is a meeting with Chicago Fire FC on Saturday, September 13. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:30PM ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City FC Goals: Haak 19′ D.C. United Goals: Pirani 43′, 77′ Quick Read New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":189009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,15277,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,104441,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-189008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-match-recap","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nycvsdc-08-30-2025","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115122367566873347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189008","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=189008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}