New York Red Bulls vs D.C. United Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

New York Red Bulls

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New York Red Bulls will be hoping to bounce back here after the 0-1 MLS loss in their previous game against Philadelphia Union.

In that match, New York Red Bulls managed 53% possession and 17 shots at goal with 3 on target. Philadelphia Union got 3 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Dániel Gazdag (31') was the scorer for Philadelphia Union.

It has been seldom in recent games that New York Red Bulls have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that New York Red Bulls have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 6 goals along the way. Still, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend shall persist here in this game or not.

D.C. United

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of FC Cincinatti in MLS competition, D.C. United and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, D.C. United managed 54% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for D.C. United was Taxiarchis Fountas (90'). At the other end, FC Cincinnati got 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Luciano Acosta (59') and Álvaro Barreal (73') scored for FC Cincinatti.

A tendency of at least one team not managing to score in games featuring D.C. United has become fairly consistent in recent matches. Checking on their last six games reveals that it has occurred 5 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 3 and D.C. United have scored 8.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels going back to 26/07/2021, neither club has come out on top overall with New York Red Bulls winning 2 of those games, D.C. United 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A combined total of 12 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them for Red Bulls and 4 being from Black-and-Red. The average goals per game has been 2.

The previous league encounter between the two was MLS match day 33 on 06/08/2022 when the final score was D.C. United 0-0 New York Red Bulls.

That time, D.C. United had 63% possession and 4 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

On the other side, New York Red Bulls got 13 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Pierre-Luc Lauziere.

📋 Team News: New York Red Bulls

The New York Red Bulls manager Gerhard Struber has no fitness concerns at all coming into this match owing to a fully injury-free squad to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: D.C. United

Owing to a completely healthy group to choose from, the D.C. United manager Wayne Rooney has no fitness worries to report ahead of this game.

✨ Prediction

We feel that New York Red Bulls will most probably get the goals that they need when they line up against D.C. United, who won’t find it easy to break down their defence.

We’re therefore anticipating a fairly comfortable 2-0 win for New York Red Bulls by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

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

Peter Guest, 11:23 05/05/2023