By Anonymous (not verified), March 1, 2025
From NYRB:
Red Bulls Defeat Nashville Soccer Club 2-0, at Sports Illustrated Stadium
2025 MLS Regular Season Match 2
Saturday, March 1, 2025 – 7:30 p.m. ET
Sports Illustrated Stadium | Harrison, N.J.
Scoring Summary:
NY – Mohammed Sofo 1 (unassisted) 7’
NY – Emil Forsberg 1 (Valencia) 30’
Misconduct Summary:
NY – Omar Valencia (caution, time wasting) 12’
NY – Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (caution, foul) 57’
NSH – Patrick Yazbek (caution, foul) 59’
NSH – Walker Zimmerman (caution, foul) 67’
NY - Noah Eile (caution, foul) 90'+3
New York Red Bulls: Carlos Coronel; Omar Valencia (Raheem Edwards, 70’), Alexander Hack, Sean Nealis, Noah Eile, Cameron Harper (Dylan Nealis, HT), Daniel Edelman, Peter Stroud (Felipe Carballo, 70’), Emil Forsberg © (Wiki Carmona, 88'), Mohammed Sofo (Julian Hall, 78’), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
Unused Subs: A.J. Marcucci, Tim Parker, Dennis Gjengaar, Aiden Jarvis
TOTAL SHOTS: 11; SHOTS ON GOAL: 5; FOULS: 13; POSSESSION: 45.6; CORNER KICKS: 1; SAVES: 2
Nashville SC: Joe Willis; Andy Najar, Walker Zimmerman ©, Jack Maher, Daniel Lovitz, Edvard Tagseth, Matthew Corcoran (Ahmed Qasem, 58’), Wyatt Meyer (Patrick Yazbek, 58’), Alex Muyl (Teal Bunbury, 74’), Hany Mukhtar, Sam Surridge
Unused Subs: Brian Schwake, Adem Sipic, Taylor Washington, Josh Bauer, Jeison Palacios, Jonathan Perez
TOTAL SHOTS: 12; SHOTS ON GOAL: 2; FOULS: 17; POSSESSION: 54.4; CORNER KICKS: 5; SAVES: 3
Referee: Rosendo Mendoza
AR1: Lyes Arfa
AR2: Gerard-Kader Lebuis
4th Official: Guido Gonzales, Jr.
VAR: Ekaterina Koroleva
AVAR: Mike Kampmeinert
Attendance: 18,843
New York Red Bulls (1-1-0, 3 pts.) defeat Nashville SC (0-1-1, 1 pts.), 2-0, at Sports Illustrated Stadium on Saturday evening.
The Red Bulls opened the scoring in the seventh minute of play, when forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting struck a shot off the post and midfielder Mohammed Sofo was there to put in the rebound.
New York doubled the lead in the 30th minute, when defender Omar Valencia played a ball back to captain Emil Forsberg at the top of Nashville’s box, and Forsberg curled home his effort.
Sofo scored his first career MLS goal in his first career MLS start in tonight’s match.
The midfielder became the 30th different player to score the opening goal of the season for New York in 30 seasons.
Forsberg scored his first goal of the season and the 10th MLS goal of his career.
The Swedish international has recorded six goal contributions in his last five MLS regular season matches.
New York have posted a 10-3-3 mark in home openers since Sports Illustrated Stadium opened in 2010.
Goalkeeper Carlos Coronel earned his first shutout of the season and the 36th of his career.
Coronel has now earned 49 career goalkeeper wins with New York, which passes Tony Meola for second place in franchise history.
The goalkeeper has posted five career shutouts in six career appearances against Nashville SC.
The Red Bulls have recorded 95 shutouts at home since 2010, which is the most in MLS during that timespan.
Valencia tallied his first career MLS assist in tonight’s match.
Defender Sean Nealis made his 126th career MLS start, which moves him into a tie with Jeff Parke for fourth place in franchise history for most MLS starts by a defender.
New York have recorded 481 points at home since 2010, which is the most in MLS during that timespan.
Following tonight’s match, New York heads to Mercedes-Benz Stadium to face off against Atlanta United FC on Saturday, March 8. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV in English and Spanish, and New York Red Bulls Radio in English via the New York Red Bulls app and NewYorkRedBulls.com.