Columbus Crew vs New York Red Bulls Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Columbus Crew

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Columbus Crew will be looking for another win after a 2-1 MLS success over Atlanta United.

In that match, Columbus Crew had 45% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For Columbus Crew, the goals were scored by Zelarayán (28') and Zardes (55'). On the other side, Atlanta United had 12 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Moreno (59') scored for Atlanta United.

The Crew have been conceding pretty frequently recently, but they have also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, The Crew have seen their goal breached in 6 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches. We will have to find out if that trend will be sustained here.

New York Red Bulls

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New York Red Bulls head into the match following a 2-1 MLS win with the downing of Toronto FC in their last outing.

In that match, New York Red Bulls managed 36% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For New York Red Bulls, the goals were scored by Barlow (24') and White (26'). On the other side, Toronto FC got 14 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Endoh (50') scored for Toronto FC.

The stats don’t lie, and New York Red Bulls have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals overall. In defence, Red Bulls can certainly do much better.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 04/11/2018 tells us that Columbus Crew have won 4 of these & New York Red Bulls 1, with the number of draws being 1.

A total of 15 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them for The Crew and 6 belonging to Red Bulls. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.

ℹ️ Team News: Columbus Crew

Columbus Crew manager Caleb Porter will be happy not to have any fitness worries at all coming into this game thanks to a completely injury-free group available to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: New York Red Bulls

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad ready to go, New York Red Bulls boss Gerhard Struber doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all ahead of this game.

💡 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that New York Red Bulls will have a tough ask to score goals against this Columbus Crew side who we reckon should end up scoring and staying ahead.

We’re therefore tipping a 1-0 winning score for Columbus Crew after 90 minutes.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 11:17 18/11/2020