📊 Form Guide

Orlando City

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Orlando City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 2-0 MLS success over Austin FC.

In that game, Orlando City had 43% possession and 22 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Orlando City, goals were scored by Jack Lynn (42') and Nicolás Lodeiro (64'). Austin FC got 3 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

Fixtures involving Orlando City have usually been exciting ones lately with plenty of scoring expected. Over their past half dozen games alone, a total of 20 goals have been scored for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 6 of those coming from Orlando City.

New York Red Bulls

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New York Red Bulls head into the match after a 4-0 MLS win to beat Inter Miami in their previous match.

In that match, New York Red Bulls had 31% possession and 12 shots at goal with 6 on target. For New York Red Bulls, the goalscorers were Lewis Morgan (3', 51', 70') and Wikelman Carmona (66'). At the other end, Inter Miami got 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

Sandro Schwarz's New York Red Bulls have found the back of the net a total of 9 times in the course of their latest six matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period comes to 6.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings going back to 03/07/2021 tells us that Orlando City have won 4 of these games & New York Red Bulls 2, with the tally of drawn games being 0.

A combined total of 17 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 11 from The Lions and 6 for Red Bulls. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league contest featuring these sides was MLS match day 23 on 03/06/2023 which finished with the scoreline of New York Red Bulls 0-3 Orlando City.

That day, New York Red Bulls had 49% possession and 14 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

Orlando City had 7 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Ivan Angulo (18') and Facundo Torres (51', 72') scored.

The match was refereed by Victor Rivas.

🗞️ Team News: Orlando City

Looking at personnel, there is just the lone fitness concern for the Orlando City manager Óscar Pareja to be concerned about from an otherwise complete group of players. César Araújo (unknown injury) misses out.

In all likelihood, The Lions look set to use a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game and select Pedro Gallese, D. Dan Thórhallsson, David Brekalo, Robin Jansson, Rafael Santos, Felipe Martins, Wilder Cartagena, Jack Lynn, Nicolas Lodeiro, Facundo Torres and Luis Muriel.

🗞️ Team News: New York Red Bulls

Owing to a fully healthy squad ready to go, the New York Red Bulls manager Sandro Schwarz doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game.

We reckon that Red Bulls might make use of a 4-4-2 system, going with Carlos Coronel, Kyle Duncan, Andrés Reyes, Noah Eile, John Tolkin, Dennis Gjengaar, Frankie Amaya, Peter Stroud, Wikelman Carmona, Dante Vanzeir and Lewis Morgan.

✨ Prediction

In this match, New York Red Bulls have enough to put one past this Orlando City outfit, but that is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.

We’re expecting a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Orlando City at the end of this one. Definitely a tough call.

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

Lucas Pereira, 23:01 30/03/2024