\u00a0\u00a0Nava and Bailey send 14,847 fans home happy<\/p>\n
Albuquerque, NM \u2013 Much like the founding fathers 250 years ago today, New Mexico United enjoyed their 4th of July in style. In front of a historic crowd of 14,847 the Black and Yellow made the most of it, securing three points from the Oakland Roots on Saturday Night. The win for New Mexico catapults them into third in the Western Conference six points behind first place Orange County SC with two matches in hand.<\/p>\n
The night got off to a fast start when Albuquerque\u2019s own Cristian Nava scored his first goal at RGCU Field at Isotopes Park since 2022 in the sixth minute of play. \u201cBeing able to score in front of 14,000 fans is something that you wake up in the morning and don\u2019t really realize is going to happen.\u201d Nava said post match, \u201cYou enjoy every single second of it.\u201d Ironically Nava\u2019s last goal was also in front of 14,000+ fans at RGCU Field at Isotopes Park helping United beat Colorado Springs Switchbacks 2-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the 41st Minute Philippines International Zico Bailey<\/a> got in on the scoring fun slotting home his second goal of the season to double United\u2019s lead before the halftime break. In the first half New Mexico\u2019s defense held Oakland\u2019s high scoring offense to zero shots.\u00a0 \u201cI thought the first half was fantastic.\u201d Head Coach Dennis Sanchez said. \u201cI thought we were tough in the first half and really should have been up maybe three or four goals. (Oakland) didn\u2019t really have a lot of answers for what we were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n In the 67th minute last year\u2019s USL Championship Golden Boot winner, Peter Wilson, converted a PK to cut the lead in half but that would be as close as Oakland would get to stealing any points from their trip to Albuquerque. United would see out the remainder of the match to defeat the Roots 2-1 as the post match firework show lit up the Albuquerque sky.<\/p>\n The Black and Yellow will hit the road for the rest of the month of July before returning home to RGCU Field at Isotopes Park to take on Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC. You can get your tickets online at Seatgeek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u00a0Nava and Bailey send 14,847 fans home happy Albuquerque, NM \u2013 Much like the founding fathers 250 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-387032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}