Nashville Soccer Club Falls on the Road to Charlotte FC

July 9, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Nashville SC News Release

CHARLOTTE, NC – Nashville Soccer Club fell to Charlotte FC on Saturday night 4-1 at Bank of America Stadium, despite a Hany Mukhtar conversion from the penalty spot in the second half.

The Chances Were There: Nashville SC finished the night with a higher expected goals total (2.62-2.07), shots taken (19-13), shots on target (7-6) and total big chances (3-1) than Charlotte.

Double Digits: Hany Mukhtar scored his 10th goal of the season by converting a penalty in the 67th minute. Mukhtar is now the first player in club history to score double-digit goals in back-to-back seasons.

Next Match: Nashville SC will return to GEODIS Park to host Seattle Sounders FC on Wednesday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m. CT.

Match Timeline

CLT 27′: Christian Fuchs converts a penalty

CLT 61′: Karol Swiderski finishes with a header off a Yordy Reyna assist

NSH 67′: Hany Mukhtar converts a penalty to the bottom right corner

CLT 89′: Sergio Ruiz scores on a single touch to the right corner with an assist from Benjamin Bender

CLT 90 + 1′: Andre Shinyashiki scores off another assist from Bender

Notes

Nashville SC:

converted its second penalty of the season (also Randall Leal, May 1st vs. PHI)

sits above the playoff line, tied for fifth place in the Western Conference

has a (3W-1L-1D) positive record against expansion teams

recorded more shots from inside the box (13-6) and touches inside the box (34-23) than Charlotte

is now 3W-1L-3D all-time in the month of July

owns an all-time record of 13W-3L-9D in weekday matches

will face Seattle Sounders FC for the second and final time this season on Wednesday

earned a 1-0 win over Seattle in the 2022 season opener on Feb. 22

has earned results in 34 of 37 matches played in Nashville in MLS, Playoff competition

Teal Bunbury recorded the most minutes played tonight as a sub as a member of Nashville (45)

Sean Davis led the club in completed passes with 31

Hany Mukhtar

has recorded seven road goals this season, tied for the most in MLS with SJ Earthquakes’ Jeremy Ebobisse

has now accounted for 51 of Nashville’s 103 goals in MLS regular season and

leads all MLS players with 43 goal contributions (26 goals, 17 assists) since 2021, which is three more than the next player (NYCFC’s Valentín ‘Taty’ Castellanos).

has recorded 11 goals and two assists in his last 11 matches across all competitions

Mukhtar led Nashville in shots (6) and shots on target (3) tonight

Walker Zimmerman wore the captain’s armband for…