New York City FC vs D.C. United Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

New York City FC

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New York City FC will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 2-0 MLS triumph vs New Eng. Revolution.

In that game, New York City FC had 52% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For New York City FC, the goals were scored by Axel Ojeda (57') and Julián Fernández (93'). For their opponents, New England Revolution got 9 shots on goal with 6 on target.

It’s been seldom in recent games where New York City FC have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that New York City FC have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 6 goals during that time. However, we must now wait to see if the trend might be replicated here in this game.

D.C. United

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Orlando City in MLS competition, D.C. United will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, D.C. United had 53% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 7 on target. For D.C. United, goals were scored by Christian Benteke (5') and Gabriel Pirani (66'). Orlando City got 10 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Dagur Dan Þór­halls­son (28'), David Brekalo (82') and Duncan McGuire (91') scored for Orlando City.

Troy Lesesne's D.C. United have seen their goal attempts be successful 7 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during those same clashes equals 9.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 27/06/2021 shows that New York City FC have won 4 of these games and D.C. United 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 0.

An aggregate of 21 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 14 of them for The Pigeons and 7 for Black-and-Red. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The previous league clash between these sides was MLS match day 47 on 07/10/2023 which finished with the scoreline of D.C. United 2-0 New York City FC.

In that game, D.C. United had 47% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Mateusz Klich (45') and Chris Durkin (62').

At the other end, New York City FC had 20 shots on goal with 5 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Fotis Bazakos.

📋 Team News: New York City FC

Talles Magno (Knee injury) and Maxi Moralez (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be able to feature for New York City FC gaffer Nick Cushing.

We are thinking that The Pigeons should employ a 4-2-3-1 system for the game, beginning the first half with Matt Freese, Mitja Ilenic, Thiago Martins, Birk Risa, Kevin OToole, James Sands, Keaton Parks, Hannes Wolf, Santiago Rodríguez, Agustin Ojeda and Monsef Bakrar.

ℹ️ Team News: D.C. United

D.C. United boss Troy Lesesne has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Steve Birnbaum (Arthroscopy), Tyler Miller (Rib fracture) and Russell Canouse (Ill) are not ready for selection.

It’s our belief that Black-and-Red might make use of a 4-4-2 system, going with Alex Bono, Conner Antley, Matai Akinmboni, Lucas Bartlett, Christopher Mcvey, Jared Stroud, Jackson Hopkins, Matti Peltola, Kristian Fletcher, Christian Benteke and Cristian Dájome.

🔮 Prediction

Our feeling is that D.C. United might have a difficult job to put one past this New York City FC outfit who we think will likely win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We’re therefore anticipating a good battle with a 1-0 winning margin for New York City FC at full-time.

It should be a good one.

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

Lucas Pereira, 16:01 19/04/2024