{"id":333000,"date":"2026-08-30T02:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:50:09","slug":"fernandez-scores-14th-goal-this-season-for-nycfc-in-1-1-tie-with-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333000\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez scores 14th goal this season for NYCFC in 1-1 tie with Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez scored his 14th goal this season and Matt Freese had five saves for New York City FC on Saturday night in a 1-1 tie with Toronto FC.<\/p>\n<p>NYCFC (7-8-7) are winless in five straight.<\/p>\n<p>Only Leo Messi and Petar Musa (16 apiece) have more goals than Fern\u00e1ndez this season.<\/p>\n<p>Fern\u00e1ndez, from a center-right position, darted to his left and then rifled a low shot between two defenders and inside the right post from near the top of the penalty arc\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/newyorkcityfc\/status\/2093854768179405104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to make it 1-0<\/a>\u00a0in the 29th minute.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i subbed on in place of Derrick Etienne Jr. in the 55th minute and scored in the 70th. Theo Corbeanu, on the counter-attack, ran onto a long ball-ahead from Alonso Coello just outside the right edge of the penalty box and played a first-touch cross to Sall\u00f3i for a tap-in finish that made it 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto (5-7-10) is unbeaten in its last five games \u2014 beginning with a 2-1 victory home win over New England on Aug. 15 that snapped a 12-game winless streak \u2014 and has one loss in eight games since the World Cup break.<\/p>\n<p>The teams also played to a 1-1 tie July 31 as Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez scored his 14th goal this season and Matt Freese had five saves for New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6497,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-333000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333000","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=333000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}