{"id":248459,"date":"2025-10-29T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248459\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:32:07","slug":"charlotte-0-1-nycfc-29-oct-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248459\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte 0-1 NYCFC (29 Oct, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8211; <a data-player-guid=\"5e9fa6be-beb1-387c-89e1-4a31f4ba7752\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/146324\/alonso-martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alonso Mart\u00ednez<\/a> scored in the 34th minute to end a three-match scoreless run and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d902d6f8-8673-29e3-15d9-3ef4c12ce9d0\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=17606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City FC<\/a> beat <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"03474104-6fe8-33cf-b1b2-c8d609c9b08b\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=21300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte FC<\/a> 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 <a data-league-guid=\"d9d3698e-67b3-3ca5-9eb4-f23b8e19a464\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/USA.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS<\/a> 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 <a data-player-guid=\"242723bf-182d-eb48-1fee-8935fa28f1a8\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/259199\/andres-perea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9s Perea<\/a> and dribbled to the top of the 18-yard box before slicing through Charlotte&#8217;s backline for a calm shot under <a data-player-guid=\"59da9a29-f446-defa-0963-98d09bccbbce\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/221408\/kristijan-kahlina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristijan Kahlina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Freese, who had eight clean sheets during the regular season, made four saves.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte was without forward <a data-player-guid=\"0c3ffd25-e34e-715c-eabb-61f80a2d251b\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/146324\/wilfried-zaha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilfried Zaha<\/a> due to a red card suspension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8211; Alonso Mart\u00ednez scored in the 34th minute to end a three-match scoreless run and New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-248459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}