New York City FC vs FC Dallas Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

New York City FC

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New York City FC will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-1 MLS loss in their previous game against New Eng. Revolution.

In that match, New York City FC had 42% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for New York City FC was Rodríguez (11'). New Eng. Revolution had 12 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Boateng (21') and Buchanan (65') scored for New Eng. Revolution.

Ronny Deila's New York City FC have celebrated scoring a sum total of 8 times in their prior half-dozen outings. Conversely, the number of goals that have been scored against them in those games stands at 8.

FC Dallas

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In their previous fixture, FC Dallas drew 1-1 in the MLS match with San Jose Earthquakes.

In that game, FC Dallas managed 59% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for FC Dallas was Pepi (50'). San Jose Earthquakes had 13 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Alanís (6') was the scorer for San Jose Earthquakes.

The stats don’t lie, and FC Dallas have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 12 goals overall. In defence, FC Dallas could really do with shoring things up. It will be interesting to find out if that trend can be sustained in this game.

↔️ Head to head

The last league fixture featuring these sides was MLS match day 37 on 22/09/2019 which ended up with the score at FC Dallas 1-1 New York City FC.

On that day, FC Dallas had 47% possession and 19 shots at goal with 5 on target. The scorer was Zdeněk Ondrášek (66').

At the other end, New York City FC had 12 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Castellanos (1') scored.

The referee was Ismail Elfath.

📰 Team News: New York City FC

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just one fitness concern for the New York City FC manager Ronny Deila to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength set of players. Héber (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) is out of contention.

🗞️ Team News: FC Dallas

FC Dallas boss Luchi Gonzalez has not got a full squad to pick from. John Nelson (Back Injury) and Beni Redžić (Ankle Surgery) are not ready for selection.

💭 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that New York City FC have it within them to create enough chances to score more than one when they play FC Dallas, who might well find it difficult to score themselves.

We’re tipping a controlled 2-0 winning margin for New York City FC at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 10:38 12/09/2021