D.C. United vs New York Red Bulls Prediction & Betting Tips

Saturday’s MLS fixture list sees D.C. United coming up against New York Red Bulls.

Full predictions, stats & game poll for the D.C. United v New York Red Bulls match are shown here (including the best match odds).

📊 Form Guide

D.C. United LDLLWD

D.C. United enter this fixture following a 0-0 MLS tied result against New York City FC.

For their opponents, New York City FC had 19 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

D.C. United haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics of late. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 3 vs opposing sides during the course of their last 6 outings. In those meetings, Black-and-Red have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them total 7. That trend might not be continued here, of course.

New York Red Bulls LWLDLL

After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Philadelphia Union in MLS competition, New York Red Bulls will be aiming to make amends here.

Philadelphia Union got 9 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Aaronson (36'), Przybyłko (69') and Real (78') scored for Philadelphia Union.

The trend of at least one team not managing to score in games featuring New York Red Bulls has become apparent of late. Checking on their last 6 outings shows that it has occurred 5 times. In these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 8 and Red Bulls have scored 2.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 26/07/2018 tells us that D.C. United have won 1 of these & New York Red Bulls 3, with the number of drawn matches being 2.

A sum of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 5 of them from Black-and-Red and 7 for Red Bulls. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The previous league contest between these sides was MLS match day 7 on 02/09/2020 when the final score was New York Red Bulls 0-1 D.C. United.

That day, New York Red Bulls had 58% possession and 17 shots on goal with 4 on target.

At the other end, D.C. United had 5 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Sorga (98') scored.

The referee was Nima Saghafi.

📰 Team News: D.C. United

D.C. United manager Ben Olsen will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of before this clash owing to a completely injury-free group available to select from.

📋 Team News: New York Red Bulls

With a fully injury-free group to pick from, New York Red Bulls manager does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash.

💡 Prediction

In our opinion, D.C. United might well have a job on their hands to break down this New York Red Bulls team who we think should score one, at least.

We’re therefore tipping a highly competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for New York Red Bulls at the conclusion of the game.

Looking forward to this.

Andre Moura, 23:14 08/09/2020