NEW YORK \u2014 Nicolas Fernandez scored a goal for the third consecutive game, Agustin Ojeda and Malachi Jones each added a goal, and New York City beat the Chicago Fire 3-1 on Saturday night at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n
Matt Freese had four saves for NYC (7-6-4).<\/p>\n
Joel Waterman scored his first goal this season for the Fire (8-6-2), who have lost back-to-back games following a three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
Ojeda, on the counter-attack, ran onto a through ball played ahead by Andr\u00e9s Perea and bent a shot from the right side of the area off the back post and into the net to make it 2-1 in the 29th.<\/p>\n
Fernandez blasted a first-touch shot, off a clearance played from Jack Elliott, from 25 yards to open the scoring in the 10th minute.<\/p>\n
Waterman tied it at 1 in the 21st minute. Anton Sal\u00e9tros played a free kick from the right sideline that was redirected by Ojeda\u2019s header at the front post, and Waterman tapped it inside the back post from point-blank range.<\/p>\n
Jones\u2019 first goal since 2024 gave NYCFC a two-goal lead in the 41st minute. Perea played a ball ahead to Ojeda, who tapped a cross from the right side of the area to Jones for a one-touch finish from point-blank range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Nicolas Fernandez scored a goal for the third consecutive game, Agustin Ojeda and Malachi Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":959706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11222,278203,93507,385943,278204,405,403,29097,5226,5225,5228,5227,48735,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,43782],"class_list":["post-959705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chicago-fire-score","tag-joel-waterman","tag-mls-results","tag-mls-scores","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-fc","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-yankee-stadium"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116984394925057962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959705","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=959705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}