{"id":202319,"date":"2026-04-19T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T02:32:10","slug":"toklomati-and-vargas-score-goals-kahlina-has-7-saves-as-charlotte-beats-nycfc-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202319\/","title":{"rendered":"Toklomati and Vargas score goals, Kahlina has 7 saves as Charlotte beats NYCFC 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idan Toklomati and Kerwin Vargas each scored a goal, Kristijan Kahlina had seven saves, and Charlotte FC beat New York City FC 2-1 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte (4-2-2) lost 2-1 to Nashville last time out to snap a four-game unbeaten streak.<\/p>\n<p>NYCFC (3-3-2), which is winless in four straight, had 57% possession and outshot Charlotte 23-8.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Freese had two saves for New York City.<\/p>\n<p>New York City had 10 shots before Charlotte attempted its first when Toklomati poked home a first-touch finish from just outside the 6-yard box to open the scoring in the 54th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas took a cross from Pep Biel and slipped a shot from the edge the penalty area inside the left post to make it 2-0 in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Fernandez scored a goal in the third minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Idan Toklomati and Kerwin Vargas each scored a goal, Kristijan Kahlina had seven saves, and Charlotte FC beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6497,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-202319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-major-league-soccer","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202319","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=202319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}