Brooklyn FC earns first road win, ends seven-game winless streak

Brooklyn FC finally put a complete road result together, beating Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC 2-0 at F.N.B. Stadium behind second-half goals from CJ Olney and Abdoulaye Kanté. The win was Brooklyn’s first away from home in club history and its first league victory since April 11, a sharp turn after a seven-game winless run.

The shape of the performance mattered as much as the score. Brooklyn stayed organized through a weather delay that pushed kickoff back an hour because of lightning, then tightened the game after halftime. Olney broke through in the 50th minute, and Kanté sealed it in stoppage time at 90+3’, giving Brooklyn a clean sheet in its first-ever visit to F.N.B. Stadium. Pittsburgh had entered with a six-match unbeaten streak and a 476-minute run without conceding, both of which ended in front of a regular-season stadium-record crowd of 6,376.

For Brooklyn, the result offered more than three points. The club had just been blanked in a 2-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rowdies on June 20, a match that extended its league winless stretch to seven games and underscored how often competitive spells had failed to become goals. At Pittsburgh, the finishing arrived at the right time, and it came from two different attackers. Olney, on loan from the Philadelphia Union ahead of the 2026 season, continued an encouraging campaign, while Kanté scored his first goal for the club and gave Brooklyn a decisive late cushion.

The late stages also brought the edge that often marks a frustrated team trying to survive a tight match. Brooklyn’s Stefan Stojanovic and Pittsburgh’s Albert Dikwa were both sent off in the 76th minute after an altercation, adding to a feisty night that Brooklyn handled better once it had the lead. Under first head coach Marlon LeBlanc, the club has spent the season building an identity from the ground up, and this was the kind of road performance that can shift the mood inside a locker room.

Whether it becomes a reset or just a brief lift will depend on what Brooklyn does next, but this was the first time the club left a difficult road test with proof that its structure, patience and second-half execution could travel.