Charlotte FC supporters remembered the rest of the MLS how big, loudly and proudly is their fanbase on Saturday afternoon, as an inspired crowd of 51,002 stadium Bank of American Stadium for their opening at 2025, producing their living atmosphere since 2022.
And Wilfried Zaha reminded the world of his offensive talent for his debut, scoring a goal and laying the grounds for the other after the crown defeated the I-85 Atlanta United, 2-0 rivals, presenting a marker about their goals in Elite MLS on his offensive force.
“I think it’s a statement,” Zaha MLS SEASON PASS told after play. “I’m coming here to score goals, the whole team is working hard and we just take advantage of opportunities, so tells about every other team in the league we mean business this season.”
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Atlanta United made very right in their approach to protect the Cote d’Ivoire -born arm, Crystal Palace. Homegrown behind Matt Edvard was patient in his task in the first half, balanced the first half, despite this was only his third MLS career match. The statistics sheet shows that Zaha received only one blow, was successful in just one of his five dribbles and recorded only three touches of the ball inside the Atlutd penalty box after he was distributed six times and lost 18 of 22 duels.
However, he still got up like Match Winner, with CLTFC grabbing both of their goals in a five-minute quick space shortly after the first half. The two came from the possible transition moments from ATL’s defensive mistakes, their new superstar a study in efficiency as his teammates shook things in their backs.
“He played a fantastic half first,” Atlanta coach Ronny Deila later said. “I didn’t see Zaha, I don’t know if you see it. He did nothing. And then he gets that moment in the second part.
“As soon as we go down, I think we lose the organization – they all go, not everyone, but many go into shells. Then we’re not either. We’re not doing what we did as we did in the first half. And then they get two, and then they make the game really difficult.”
Zaha had anything other than direct preparations for the case, after entering London on Thursday after losing nearly a week of team activities to be with his wife Paige for the birth of their daughter. It would have been fully understandable if CLT Dean Smith coach had played him safe and set his new gun from the bench.
It turns out that he was very ready for attention.
“It’s been an amazing week. I have managed to testify to the birth of my daughter, so I feel like this has given me extra power, extra strength by going to this game, “Zaha said, even when he called his purpose” a strange “, admitting that he” did not make the best connection “with the ball while running a Brad Guzan, except for the ATL career.
“The group is amazing, we have worked hard and won the victory we needed.”
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Is the addition of an elite creator like Zaha really all Charlotte who had to rise from harshly to legitimized heavy weight? This has been the question about the Metropolitan of North Carolina since buying it with a loan of the season from Galatasaray.
“He’s the kind of player we miss last season for sure. We’ve seen at a show today he can produce moments of magic,” said Zaha’s Smith, taking care of his position discipline especially.
“The first half, you can see that he was getting into the rhythm of the game; the rhythm is a great thing from time to time for players. There were people kidnapped on his heel several times, he gave him several times. He can run like him for the first purpose.
As the teams around the League win the match fitness and the construction of scouting files, opponents will be less likely to commit cardinal sins in long standard balls like Atlanta. And 90 minutes is a small sample size in any scenario. The next Sunday’s journey to reign the holders of the shield of Inter Miami supporters (4 pm.
But Hype in Charlotte is likely not to be distributed at any time soon, and hope is all in that massive opening day participation, catch enough to return again and again this year.
“Excellent pursuit, great support,” Smith said. “I don’t know how many they were here today, 50 years old, but I want them to come back. I’ve said many times, the way to keep them back is the story-we don’t have much of them, we are just four years old this year, so winning football games is the main reason we will keep the fans return. So we have to continue winning football games.”