New York City FC vs Columbus Crew Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

New York City FC

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New York City FC, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 3-1 Open Cup victory vs Rochester New York.

Matches involving New York City FC have often been entertaining affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past 6 clashes, the sum total of 24 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 4 goals per game) with 16 of them being chalked up by New York City FC. That sort of pattern might not be carried forward into this next game, of course.

Columbus Crew

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In their previous fixture, Columbus Crew drew 2-2 in the MLS match with New Eng. Revolution.

In that match, Columbus Crew had 36% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For Columbus Crew, the scorers were Miguel Berry (27') and Erik Hurtado (89'). For their opponents, New Eng. Revolution had 9 shots on goal with 2 on target. DeJuan Jones (70') and Adam Buksa (82') scored for New Eng. Revolution.

During their 6 latest matches, Caleb Porter's Columbus Crew have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 6 times - earning them the goals per game average of 1.

👥 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes dating back to 01/03/2020 shows us that New York City FC have won 2 of these games & Columbus Crew 4, with the number of drawn games being 0.

A sum of 17 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 8 of them from The Pigeons and 9 coming from The Crew. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The previous league encounter between these clubs was MLS match day 21 on 30/07/2021 when the final score was New York City FC 4-1 Columbus Crew.

That time, New York City FC managed 44% possession and 24 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. The scorers were Valentín Castellanos (14'), Thiago Andrade (35'), Keaton Parks (51') and Santiago Rodríguez (71').

Columbus Crew had 9 shots on goal with 1 on target. Pedro Santos (97') scored.

The match was refereed by Alan Kelly.

🗞️ Team News: New York City FC

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just a single fitness concern for the New York City FC gaffer Ronny Deila to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed set of players. Anton Tinnerholm (Achilles tendon rupture) misses out.

It seems likely that The Pigeons could use a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one, utilising Sean Johnson, Tayvon Gray, Thiago Martins, Alexander Callens, Christopher Gloster, Keaton Parks, Nicolás Acevedo, Thiago Andrade, Santiago Rodríguez, Maxi Moralez and Héber.

📰 Team News: Columbus Crew

Owing to an otherwise healthy group, there is only a single fitness problem for the Columbus Crew manager Caleb Porter to be concerned about. Kevin Molino (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) won’t be in action.

It’s our belief that The Crew seem likely to make use of a 4-3-3 system, going with Eloy Room, Derrick Etienne Jr., Jonathan Mensah, Josh Williams, Pedro Santos, Aidan Morris, Artur, Darlington Nagbe, Yaw Yeboah, James Igbekeme and Miguel Berry.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that New York City FC look set to get amongst the goals when they come up against Columbus Crew, who may well struggle to break down their defence.

We reckon that it will be a comfortable 2-0 margin for New York City FC at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 23:57 09/05/2022