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 fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 2-0 MLS success vs New Eng. Revolution.

In that game, New York City FC had 52% possession and 17 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For New York City FC, the scorers were Axel Ojeda (57') and Julián Fernández (93'). For their opponents, New England Revolution got 9 attempts at goal with 6 of them 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 tasting defeat last time out to Orlando City in MLS competition, D.C. United and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, D.C. United had 53% possession and 17 shots on goal with 7 on target. For D.C. United, the goalscorers were Christian Benteke (5') and Gabriel Pirani (66'). Orlando City had 10 shots 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 prior head-to-head meetings going back to 27/06/2021 shows that New York City FC have won 4 of these games & D.C. United 2, with the number of draws being 0.

A combined sum of 21 goals were produced between them in these games, with 14 of them from The Pigeons and 7 created by Black-and-Red. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The previous league contest between the two was MLS match day 47 on 07/10/2023 when it finished D.C. United 2-0 New York City FC.

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

At the other end, New York City FC got 20 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

The referee was Fotis Bazakos.

📋 Team News: New York City FC

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

We think that The Pigeons look set to employ a 4-2-3-1 system for this one, handing starts to 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 a number of players out of action. Steve Birnbaum (Arthroscopy), Tyler Miller (Rib fracture) and Russell Canouse (Ill) won’t be making appearances.

We are inclined to think that Black-and-Red might utilise a 4-4-2 formation, giving starts to 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.

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Lucas Pereira, 09:07 19/04/2024