Nashville SC forward Sam Surridge, left, celebrates his goal with midfielder Alex Muyl (19) during the first half of an MLS soccer match against ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ FC, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Nashville SC forward Sam Surridge (9) kicks the ball past ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ FC goalkeeper Sean Johnson, left, during the first half of an MLS soccer match Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ FC defender Kevin Long, left, midfielder Kobe Franklin (19) and forward Theo Corbeanu, right, react after the team’s loss against Nashville SC after an MLS soccer match Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sam Surridge scored his 18th goal of the season, Joe Willis earned his ninth clean sheet and Nashville beat ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ FC 1-0 in Major League Soccer action on Saturday night.
Nashville SC forward Sam Surridge, left, celebrates his goal with midfielder Alex Muyl (19) during the first half of an MLS soccer match against ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ FC, Saturday, July 19, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sam Surridge scored his 18th goal of the season, Joe Willis earned his ninth clean sheet and Nashville beat ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ FC 1-0 in Major League Soccer action on Saturday night.
Nashville (14-5-5), which won its ninth home game this season, set a franchise record for wins during the regular season, topping 13 set in 2022 and ’23.
Nashville is unbeaten in its last six matches against ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ (5-12-6), outscoring the Canadian side 8-3. Nashville is also undefeated (3-0-0) against ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ when Surridge scores.
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Surridge scored in the 28th minute. Goalkeeper Sean Johnson made a diving save off of Hany Mukhtar’s left-footed shot outside of the box but it spilled to Surridge for an easy finish.
Surridge became the 10th player in MLS history to score at least 18 goals in his team’s first 24 games of a season and the first to do so since Carlos Vela and Josef MartÃnez in 2019.
The shutout victory marked Willis’ 76th career MLS regular- season clean sheet and his 101st career MLS regular season win.
“I should probably start by saying nobody’s satisfied with the loss, but what an effort they put in and fought to the very last, fought to the death,” said ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ head coach Robin Fraser. “And on a different day, maybe when those chances late, goes in and you’d say, what a great road performance the effort put in.
” … I think it (the play leading up to the goal) was a foul. Personally, after tonight, I’m not really sure what’s a foul and, to be quite honest, I think a number of calls were missed on both sides, but I do think it was a foul.”
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