{"id":173981,"date":"2026-03-25T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173981\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:02:06","slug":"hitting-the-road-brooklyn-fc-visits-lexington-sporting-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173981\/","title":{"rendered":"HITTING THE ROAD: Brooklyn FC visits Lexington Sporting Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tOverview:<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn Football Club men travel to Lexington SC Stadium on Wednesday night for a matchup against Lexington Sporting Club.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn Football Club men travel to Lexington SC Stadium on Wednesday night for a matchup against Lexington Sporting Club.<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff for the USL Championship match is set for 7 p.m. ET. The game is the first meeting between the two clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn enters the contest with a 1-0-2 record in its inaugural season and will look to turn strong attacking performances into results after a 2-1 loss to Hartford Athletic on Saturday night at Maimonides Park.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the result, Brooklyn controlled much of the match, finishing with 70 percent possession, 26 shots, and 11 on target.<\/p>\n<p>Markus Anderson scored his first goal for the club off the men\u2019s team\u2019s first-ever assist from So Nishikawa.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Carlos Obreg\u00f3n Jr. and Anderson lead the team with one league goal each, while Nishikawa leads the team with one assist.<\/p>\n<p>Lexington SC enters the match still searching for its first league victory with a 1-0-1 record, but the club is coming off a 9-0 victory over Flower City Union in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Nick Firmino has emerged as Lexington\u2019s primary creative force, leading the team in chances created, while Aaron Molloy and Phillip Goodrum have been key contributors in attack.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, Lexington features experienced players, including Javain Brown, a former MLS defender, and goalkeeper Oliver Semmle, who has already recorded a clean sheet this season.<\/p>\n<p>The will be available to watch live on ESPN+. The match will also be broadcast on TUDN and available via SiriusXM radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: The Brooklyn Football Club men travel to Lexington SC Stadium on Wednesday night for a matchup against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,9025,9026,100,99,70911,70912,9,24,63,9029],"class_list":["post-173981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-fc","tag-brooklyn-football-club","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-hartford-athletic","tag-lexington-sporting-club","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-usl-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}