Could 30, 2025 12:12 PM IST
SOCCER-USA-NSH -NYC/PREVIEW
Nashville SC will put a nine-game unbeaten streak on the road Saturday when it hosts New York Metropolis FC in an Japanese Convention battle.
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Nashville enters the competition third in Main League Soccer’s Japanese Convention. The Boys in Gold are on a 6-0-3 run in all competitions and a 4-0-3 surge in MLS play.
NYCFC is simply 4 factors behind Nashville however is in eighth place within the East standings.
Nashville returns residence after enjoying to a 2-2 draw at 2023 MLS Cup winner Columbus Crew on Wednesday.
Sam Surridge and Hany Mukhtar scored for Nashville, which gained regardless of being outshot 21-13 and ending with 38.1 % of the ball possession. The Crew wanted an personal purpose by defender Jeisson Palacios within the 81st minute to earn the draw.
“Tough game in general,” Mukhtar advised the Tennessean. “Credit to the group, we fought. I think it shows the mentality of this group. If we’re not on top of a team, we still fight, and it’s very difficult to break us down.”
NYCFC posted back-to-back residence wins over the New York Pink Bulls and the Chicago Hearth earlier than its three-game unbeaten streak was snapped by the visiting Houston Dynamo 3-0 on Wednesday at wet Yankee Stadium.
New York, regardless of proudly owning the ball 62.2 % of the time, managed only one shot on purpose within the sloppy circumstances, and that one did not come till the 58th minute. In the meantime, former NYCFC striker Gabe Segal scored a brace, and the Dynamo additionally acquired an personal purpose from New York Metropolis’s Justin Haak.
“We didn’t create anything, nothing at all,” New York coach Pascal Jansen mentioned. “They made it really tough on us. They were defending very, very aggressive, with a lot of bodies in the middle.”
It marked the third time prior to now 5 MLS matches that New York was blanked.
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