San Diego FC ready to come home after third straight road loss, 3-0
San Diego FC was down early Saturday and stayed down Liel Abada scored early on Pep Biel s league-leading sixth assist and Charlotte FC rolled to a - accomplishment over SDFC San Diego won its first two road matches but has since dropped two straight and three in a row away from home Kristijan Kahlina the reigning goalkeeper of the year finished with two saves on the way to his fourth clean sheet this season for Charlotte - - the last remaining club with a perfect home record It was also the fifth straight triumph for the club which is tied for the Eastern Conference lead Charlotte jumped in front in the th minute when Abada used Biel s assist to number for the second time It was Abada s ninth career goal in appearances with Charlotte Charlotte is - - when Biel contributes to a goal this season SDFC - - was forced to play a man down from the rd minute on after defender Andr s Reyes picked up two yellow cards The second yellow resulted in a penalty-kick goal by Patrick Agyemang for a - lead at the half Ashley Westwood set up Andrew Privett s first career goal in his th appearance for a - lead in the th minute The assist was Westwood s first this season Coach Mikey Varas called the club s two-game losing streak a short-term hiccup It definitely wasn t a good performance he stated The boys know that I know that CJ dos Santos totaled seven saves for San Diego Dos Santos had two saves and Kahlina one in the first half Reyes made his debut for SDFC his th career MLS regular season appearance after rehabbing from an injury sustained during the preseason He also became the first participant in SDFC history to be ejected from a match Dos Santos and defender Chris McVey have started and played a full minutes through the club s first nine matches each totaling minutes played SDFC returns to Snapdragon Stadium to play Real Salt Lake at p m Saturday The last two games is not the version we want to show to people especially our fans which means we will not show that at home I can guarantee that midfielder Jeppe Tverskov stated