{"id":8322,"date":"2026-02-23T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/new-york-city-rallies-in-aggressive-draw-against-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:13:27","slug":"new-york-city-rallies-in-aggressive-draw-against-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/new-york-city-rallies-in-aggressive-draw-against-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City rallies in aggressive draw against Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\"w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 !mx-0 !px-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/28240744.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/28240744.jpg\" alt=\"MLS: Preseason-Coachella Valley Invitational\" class=\"w-full\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">Feb 14, 2026; Indio, California, USA;  New York City FC forward Hannes Wolf (17) at Empire Polo Club. Mandatory Credit: Corinne Votaw-Imagn Images<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>Nicolas Fernandez scored on a penalty kick in the 66th minute as New York City rallied for a physical 1-1 draw with the host Los Angeles Galaxy in the season opener for both teams on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Playing a 12th straight season opener on the road, NYCFC (0-0-1, 1 point) avoided getting blanked for the fourth time in five season openers by overcoming an early defensive breakdown that led to an early goal.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>Fernandez scored in a contest that saw the teams combine for 31 fouls and five yellow cards. He also nearly struck again in the second minute of stoppage time but hooked a shot from the middle of the box to the left.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>The most pivotal yellow card was handed out in the 64th when Emiro Garces was sent off following a foul on Fernandez. Garces&#8217; second yellow card resulted in the Galaxy (0-0-1, 1 point) playing with 10 men the rest of the contest.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>Fernandez capitalized on the miscue by ripping a shot that caromed off goalie Novak Micovic&#8217;s right hand and to the right side of the net for his fourth career MLS goal.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>Fernandez equalized after NYCFC had the better chances for most of the contest but could not get a shot on target after Joao Klauss scored two minutes into his LA debut.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">\n<p>The Galaxy quickly moved towards the New York net and moved the ball around. Paintsill sent the ball to Marco Reus near the end line.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-8\">\n<p>Reus drew New York defender Kai Trewin to him but quickly passed the ball to Klauss in the center of the box. Left open by two defenders, Klauss lifted a left-footed shot from the middle of the box to the lower right side of the net before Freese could react.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">\n<p>New York goalie Matt Freese stopped six shots, including a diving stop on Gabriel Pec late in the first half. He also denied Joseph Paintsil&#8217;s header try in the 90th.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-10\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/new-york-city-rallies-in-aggressive-draw-against-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 14, 2026; Indio, California, USA; New York City FC forward Hannes Wolf (17) at Empire Polo Club. Mandatory Credit: Corinne Votaw-Imagn Images Nicolas Fernandez scored on a penalty kick in the 66th minute as New York City rallied for a physical 1-1 draw with the host Los Angeles Galaxy in the season opener for [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paknews.centers.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}