MIAMI \u2013 J\u00fcrgen Locadia scored the decisive goal as Miami FC took a 3-2 victory against Birmingham Legion FC at Pitbull Stadium as the hosts held firm to break a three-game winless streak in league play to move into fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings.<\/p>\n
Miami had the better chances to start the first half, and Locadia was denied by an excellent save by BKFC\u2019s Lukas Burns just before the half-hour mark, but the hosts took the lead in the 35th minute when Bachir Ndiaye redirected home a free kick from the right by Mason Tunbridge. Brooklyn leveled just two minutes later, however, as Markus Anderson fired home a low finish from the top of the penalty area to the bottom-left corner of the net.<\/p>\n
The hosts regained the lead six minutes into the second half when a corner kick from the left deflected home off Brooklyn defender Thomas Vancaeyezeele, and Locadia added a third in the 71st minute as he arrived at the back post to turn home a low cross by Mat\u00edas Romero. The goal proved key as BKFC pulled back a goal on a brilliant strike by Stefan Stojanovic four minutes later, but Miami was able to see out the result and cap a strong week of action.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Miami FC \u2013 The hosts built on their midweek victory at home to FC Naples in the USL Cup with a stellar victory that ended a three-game winless run in league play. J\u00fcrgen Locadia\u2019s first goal in league play proved the winner but the hosts carved out far more chances in a convincing home display.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn FC \u2013 BKFC scored a pair of excellent goals but the visitors proved susceptible from set pieces, conceding twice from dead ball situations. The performance of Markus Anderson and CJ Olney were both solid but couldn\u2019t pull the visitors back after a tough night defensively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2013 J\u00fcrgen Locadia scored the decisive goal as Miami FC took a 3-2 victory against Birmingham Legion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,12,63],"class_list":["post-218052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218052","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=218052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}