NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sam Surridge scored a club-record 4 targets, Hany Mukhtar added two targets and an assists and Nashville SC routed the Hearth 7-2 on Saturday night time.
Nashville coach B.J. Callaghan beat his former boss and present Hearth coach Gregg Berhalter of their first assembly. Callaghan served as an assistant for the U.S. males’s nationwide group beneath Behalter and have become interim supervisor after Berhalter’s contract expired in December 2022.
Philip Zinckernagel scored for the Hearth within the sixty fourth minute, and Hugo Cuypers made it 7-2 within the 71st. Chicago (3-4-3) is winless in 5 consecutive video games.
Surridge — the nineteenth participant in MLS historical past to attain 4 targets in a recreation — opened the scoring when he transformed from the spot within the 14th minute and Jeisson Palacios scored his first aim in MLS to offer Nashville a 2-0 lead when he headed house a nook kick performed in by Mukhtar within the twenty second.
Mukhtar added targets within the twenty fifth — when he tapped in a rebound from point-blank vary — and thirty first minutes earlier than Surridge made one other penalty kick in first-half stoppage time make it 5-0. Nashville turned the fifth group in MLS historical past to attain 5 targets within the first half of a match and the primary since Philadelphia on July 8, 2022.
Surridge slipped behind the protection to attain targets on the counter-attack within the fiftieth and 57th minutes to make it 7-0.
Surridge (two) and Mukhtar (4) are the one gamers to report a number of hat tips for Nashville (5-4-1).
