ST. PAUL, Minn. 鈥 St. 香港三级片 City SC鈥檚 winless run reached a club-record 10 matches with a 3-0 loss at Minnesota United on Saturday.
City SC fell behind in the first half to a set-piece goal and stayed there, having lost all five games this season in which its opponent scores first.
Now with just two wins, seven losses and five draws on the season, City SC hasn鈥檛 won since March 15 and has picked up only three of its last 30 available points. With Saturday's defeat, the ongoing 10-game winless streak surpassed the club's previous long of nine, a run from last season that led to the dismissal of former manager Bradley Carnell.
City SC was held scoreless for the first time since a nil-nil draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps on April 19 and posted its lowest expected goals tally (0.58) since a March 22 loss to the Philadelphia Union.
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After half an hour of fairly even play, Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the 33rd minute, scoring off a corner. A header fell at the feet of Loons forward Tani Oluwaseyi, who cheekily jammed the ball behind for a backheel finish that gave Roman Burki little chance to stop.
It was the second-earliest goal conceded this season by City SC, though the third of the year given up in exactly the 33rd minute.
To that point, Burki had looked lively in his second game back from injury, making a savvy underhanded save in the 14th minute to deny a clean Minnesota header from close range.
Minnesota doubled its lead in the 63rd minute through an uninterrupted attack. Oluwaseyi rolled back the ball to Loons midfielder Joaquin Pereyra, who gently placed his shot to the right of Burki 鈥 who seemed dismayed afterward with the defending that led to such an effortless window to score.
A stretch of eight goals past the 70th minute allowed in the last four games, became nine in the last five as Minnesota's Julian Gressel, left entirely unmarked at the back post, finished off a cross for a 3-0 lead in the 78th minute. Instead of costing points, though, this late concession was insult to injury.聽
Manager Olof Mellberg made only one change to his starting lineup from Wednesday鈥檚 draw with Sporting Kansas City, moving forward Joao Klauss to the bench and giving 20-year-old midfield Jake Girdwood-Reich his first start of the season.
At halftime, he pulled Tomas Ostrak 鈥 who completed a team-high 31 passes in the first half 鈥 for Simon Becher, changing shape to play with another advanced threat who helped with City SC鈥檚 press.
Midfielder Chris Durkin, who hasn鈥檛 appeared in a match since March 30, entered the game in the 71st minute for Celio Pompeu while Xande Silva replaced Marcel Hartel in the same window. Klauss and Rasmus Alm 鈥 the latter receiving his first minutes of 2025 鈥 checked in at the 83 minute mark.
Before the game, Minnesota held a minute of silence for those affected by Friday's tornado and storms that killed at least five in the St. 香港三级片 area.
City SC will be back at Minnesota United's Allianz Field at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday for a knockout rematch in the U.S. Open Cup, an affair that's likely to see significant rotation for both squads. City SC's next chance at an MLS victory will come at the Colorado Rapids on May 24.
The Rapids snapped a five-match winless skid of their own with a Saturday win over Real Salt Lake.
