NYCFC shocked Charlotte FC to win 3-1 on the road in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC.

Nicolás Fernández Mercau and Alonso Martínez scored either side of halftime to march the Boys in Blue through to the Eastern Conference semifinals against the number-one-seeded Philadelphia Union.

“The first 20 minutes were very rough for us, but we got through it,” head coach Pascal Jansen said after the match. “Once we got through it, we started to control the rhythm, control the game, and that is a massive achievement playing in this stadium.”

City weathered an early Charlotte storm to start the match and survived an additional 12 minutes of injury time at the end, and Fernandez Mercau doubled his tally to seal the victory with two minutes l

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