{"id":322978,"date":"2026-06-29T02:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322978\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:46:36","slug":"recap-cheikhou-niang-goal-earns-fc-cincinnati-2-three-points-against-inter-miami-cf-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/322978\/","title":{"rendered":"RECAP | Cheikhou Niang goal earns FC Cincinnati 2 three points against Inter Miami CF II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday evening, FC Cincinnati 2 hosted Inter Miami CF II at Scudamore Field at NKU Soccer Stadium in Highland Heights, Kentucky. The Orange and Blue secured the win at home, 1-0, picking up their fourth home win this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange and Blue controlled most of the first half action and limited Miami in their scoring chances. Cheikhou Niang scored the lone goal of the match FCC 2 in the 45\u2019+2.<\/p>\n<p>U16 Academy goalkeeper Connor Dale recorded his first MLS NEXT Pro career clean sheet on Sunday, making two saves in FC Cincinnati 2\u2019s third shutout performance of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati will host Red Bull New York II on Sunday, July 5 at Scudamore Field at NKU Soccer Stadium at 6 p.m. ET. Tickets for the match are available and can be claimed through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fccincinnati.com\/fans\/app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FC Cincinnati App<\/a>. The match will also stream live on <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.onefootball.com\/en\/live-matches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OneFootball<\/a> platforms and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlsnextpro.com\/video\/live-streams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLSNEXTPro.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FC CINCINNATI GAME REPORT<br \/>FC Cincinnati 2 vs Inter Miami CF II<br \/>Date: June 28, 2026<br \/>Competition: MLS NEXT Pro Regular Season<br \/>Venue: Scudamore Field at NKU Soccer Stadium | Highland Heights, KY<br \/>Kickoff: 6:03p.m. ET<br \/>Weather: 86 degrees, clear<\/p>\n<p>SCORING SUMMARY: 1-2-FT<br \/>CIN: 1-0-1<br \/>MIA: 0-0-0<\/p>\n<p>CIN \u2013 Cheikhou Niang 45+2<br \/>MIA\u2013 None<\/p>\n<p>LINEUPS<br \/>CIN: Connor Dale, Sami Lachekar, Felix Samson (C), Leonardo Orejarena, Camden Sphire, Stefan Chirila, Charlie Holmes, Cheikhou Niang (Mathias Vasquez 53\u2019), Jack Mize (Giovanni Marioni 60\u2019), Ayoub Lajhar (Noah Gassan 90\u2019)<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes not used: David Paz, Nathan Gray, Steel Cook, LJ Born, G\u00e4el Huguet, Dom Lester<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach: Sammy Castellanos<\/p>\n<p>MIA: Matias Marin, Tyler Hall (C), Sloan Morrison, Matteo De Paula, Daniel Sumalia, Theo Vorenkamp (Nash Dearmin 54\u2019), Idoh Zeltzer-Zubida (Rondell White 64\u2019), Ian Urkidi, Alejandro Flores (Zidane Cadet 74\u2019), Diego Rey (Mateo Saja Dulce 74\u2019), Jeremy Ortela (Matias Acevedo 64\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes not used: Nick Alemedia, Naej Desravins, Max Ponikarovsky, Sean Gormley<br \/>*<br \/>Head Coach:* Cristian Ledesma<br \/>*<br \/>STATS SUMMARY: CIN\/MIA*<br \/>Shots: 10\/5<br \/>Shots on Goal: 3\/2<br \/>Saves: 2\/2<br \/>Corner Kicks: 2\/3<br \/>Fouls: 15\/14<br \/>Offside: 1\/5<br \/>*<br \/>MISCONDUCT SUMMARY*<br \/>MIA- Theo Vorenkamp (Yellow Card) 44\u2019<br \/>CIN- Camden Sphire (Yellow Card) 58\u2019<br \/>MIA- Daniel Sumalla (Yellow Card) 72\u2019<br \/>CIN- Stefan Chirila (Yellow Card) 74\u2019<br \/>CIN- Deiver Mosquera (Yellow Card) 90+4<br \/>CIN- Noah Gassan (Yellow Card) 90+7<br \/>*<br \/>OFFICIALS*<br \/>Referee: Shawn Tehini<br \/>Ast. Referees: Zachary McWhorter, Eric Burton\u00a0<br \/>Fourth Official: Salvador Flores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday evening, FC Cincinnati 2 hosted Inter Miami CF II at Scudamore Field at NKU Soccer Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[133441,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-322978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fc-cincinnati-2","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}