The New York Red Bulls finally got their first home win of 2022 in some slightly unusual circumstances on Wednesday night.
While the team still awaits their first league win at home and their first win of any kind at Red Bull Arena, Gerhard Struber’s team secured a cathartic 3-1 victory over Charlotte FC at Montclair State University to advance to the last eight of the US Open Cup. Goals from Patryk Klimala, Dylan Nealis, and Tom Barlow were enough to both survive the round of 16 as well as emphatically turn around what was threatening to become a slump after disappointing results against Chicago and Miami and in the previous week.