{"id":1163666,"date":"2026-02-23T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163666"},"modified":"2026-02-23T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:11:00","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8-nycfc-fight-back-for-road-draw-with-la-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/%f0%9f%9a%a8-nycfc-fight-back-for-road-draw-with-la-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 NYCFC fight back for road draw with LA Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 NYCFC fight back for road draw with LA Galaxy <\/p>\n<p>NYCFC and the LA Galaxy kicked off their MLS campaigns with a hard-fought draw in Los Angeles this evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"onefootball-match-scores-data\"><\/div>\n<p>After a poor 2025 campaign in which the Galaxy hit historic lows as reigning MLS Cup holders, Gregg Vanney&#8217;s side were looking for a quick start to 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They appeared to get just that when new signing\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Klauss fired home a Marco Reus pass to open the scoring in style.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS\/status\/2025726555595428071?s=20\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The visitors from the Big Apple did well to settle into the game however, and while it took until deep in the second-half, they were given their chance to pull level when Emiro Garc\u00e9s was sent off for taking down an NYCFC player in the box.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up stepped\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez to dispatch the equalizer from the spot and snatch a point for the away side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Still to come<\/h2>\n<div class=\"onefootball-match-scores-data\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/nycfc-fight-back-road-draw-021100990.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/nycfc-fight-back-road-draw-021100990.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 NYCFC fight back for road draw with LA Galaxy NYCFC and the LA Galaxy kicked off their MLS campaigns with a hard-fought draw in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1163667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}