{"id":339668,"date":"2025-10-29T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339668\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:54:12","slug":"nycfc-beats-charlotte-1-0-to-begin-best-of-3-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339668\/","title":{"rendered":"NYCFC beats Charlotte 1-0 to begin best-of-3 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/1983317475816288657\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alonso Mart\u00ednez scored in the 34th minute<\/a>\u00a0to end a three-match scoreless run and New York City FC beat Charlotte 1-0 on Tuesday night to begin a best-of-three series.<\/p>\n<p>New York City became the first away team to win in the 2025 MLS playoffs after the first eight squads lost. NYCFC will host Charlotte on Saturday in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00ednez, who had 17 goals during the regular season, collected a headed pass from Andr\u00e9s Perea and dribbled to the top of the 18-yard box before slicing through Charlotte&#8217;s backline for a calm shot under Kristijan Kahlina.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Freese, who had eight clean sheets during the regular season, made four saves.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte was without forward Wilfried Zaha due to a red card suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alonso Mart\u00ednez scored in the 34th minute\u00a0to end a three-match scoreless run and New York City FC beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":339669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,15654,6071,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-339668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-charlotte","10":"tag-major-league-soccer","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115454965469132028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339668","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=339668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}