📊 Form Guide

New York Red Bulls

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New York Red Bulls are hoping to win again following the 1-3 MLS success over Chicago Fire.

In that game, New York Red Bulls managed 36% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. For New York Red Bulls, the scorers were Jorge Ruvalcaba (45'), Cade Cowell (49'), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (81') and Dylan Nealis (87' Own goal). Chicago Fire had 15 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

It has been all too rare in recent times where New York Red Bulls have shown defensive steel. The facts show that New York Red Bulls have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 16 goals during that time. That pattern might not be carried forward into this match, however.

Columbus Crew

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to New York City FC in MLS competition, Columbus Crew and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Columbus Crew managed 58% possession and 11 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. On the other side, New York City FC had 9 shots at goal with 6 on target. Hannes Wolf (12', 16', 66') was the scorer for New York City FC.

Illustrating their fondness for productive encounters, goals have been celebrated 21 times in the previous 6 games in which Columbus Crew have taken to the pitch, yielding a mean average of 3.5 goals per meeting. Opposition teams have got 10 of these goals.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 16/03/2024 shows us that New York Red Bulls have won 1 of these & Columbus Crew 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.

An aggregate of 17 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them from Red Bulls and 11 for The Crew. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league meeting featuring the two was MLS match day 50 on 18/10/2025 when it finished Columbus Crew 3-1 New York Red Bulls.

On that occasion, Columbus Crew had 58% possession and 13 shots at goal with 6 on target. The goals were scored by Andrés Herrera (16'), Dániel Gazdag (66') and Ibrahim Aliyu (84').

New York Red Bulls had 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (11') was the scorer.

The referee was Marcos de Oliveira.

📰 Team News: New York Red Bulls

In all likelihood, Red Bulls will probably use a 4-1-4-1 formation for this one featuring Ethan Horvath, J. Marshall-Rutty, Tim Parker, Dylan Nealis, Matthew Dos Santos, Adri Mehmeti, Cade Cowell, Ronald Donkor, Emil Forsberg, Jorge Ruvalcaba and Julian Hall.

🗞️ Team News: Columbus Crew

We’re of the thinking that The Crew appear most likely to elect for a 4-4-2 lineup, giving starts to Patrick Schulte, Steven Moreira, Rudy Camacho, Sean Zawadzki, Owen Presthus, Max Arfsten, Andre Gomes, S. Tidiany Bangoura, Hugo Picard, Daniel Gazdag and Taha Habroune.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that New York Red Bulls are dangerous enough to score against this Columbus Crew lineup, but a single goal likely won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We can see a tight encounter finishing with a 1-2 winning score for Columbus Crew by the conclusion of the game. Could easily go either way, this.

Peter Guest, 23:21 13/05/2026