{"id":267422,"date":"2026-06-15T15:38:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267422\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:38:54","slug":"so-close-brooklyn-fc-concedes-late-equalizer-in-road-draw-at-louisville-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267422\/","title":{"rendered":"SO CLOSE: Brooklyn FC concedes late equalizer in road draw at Louisville City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\tOverview:<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn FC surrendered a goal in the 89th minute and settled for a 2-2 draw in the USL Championship at Louisville City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LOUISVILLE, Ken. \u2013 Brooklyn FC surrendered a goal in the 89th minute and settled for a 2-2 draw in the USL Championship at Louisville City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Midfielder Ray Serrano took advantage of a bouncing ball in the box that the Brooklyn defenders could not clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The draw left Brooklyn FC (2-7-3, 9 points) in 13th place in the Eastern Conference while third-place Louisville City (31) moved to 6-5-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forward Markus Anderson started the scoring in the fourth minute with a clean two-touch finish. A cross from defender Thomas Vancaeyezeele went into the box and Anderson took it down with his left foot before volleying it into the back of the net with his right foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The visitors continued the pressure, including a shot from Vancayaezeele that hit the crossbar in the fifth minute and a header from midfieldeer Peter Mangione that went over the bar. Anderson had another chance after being played through but was unable to round the keeper and score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louisville found its equalizer through forward Chris Donovan on the half hour. The hosts\u2019 attack had two shots cleared off the goal line before the third shot from Donovan crossed the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brooklyn answered immediately with an attack that forced a double save from the Louisville goalkeeper Danny Faundez. A shot from outside of the box by midfielder Malik Pinto was saved and forward Stefan Stojanovic\u2019s rebound was also blocked by Faundez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 55th minute, Brooklyn found its go-ahead goal through Stojanovic. Brooklyn\u2019s defense cleared the ball and a long ball from midfielder Christopher Olney Jr. found Stojanovic, who drilled a shot home from outside the box.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontrowsoccer.com\/author\/michael\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MichaelLewis-12920a-150x150.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"  alt=\"Michael Lewis\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-120 alignnone photo\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 28 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published <a href=\"https:\/\/frontrow.soccer\/alivekicking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALIVE AND KICKING<\/a> The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/frontrow.soccer\/alivekicking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontrowsoccer.com\/author\/michael\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Michael Lewis\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview: Brooklyn FC surrendered a goal in the 89th minute and settled for a 2-2 draw in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,9025,100,99,71676,9,24,63,9029],"class_list":["post-267422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-fc","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-louisville-city","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\/267422","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=267422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267422\/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=267422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}