Delightful dogfight as daring New York City duel with determined Minnesota United

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 20.Aug
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Citi Field (47309 seats)

Major League Soccer: Tipsway are previewing an action-packed and key duel between New York City and Minnesota United at Citi Field. They both need three points!

Insights:
  • New York City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Minnesota United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

New York City and Minnesota United should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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New York City form and stats

4-4-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for New York City so far this season. When New York City hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Inter Miami, New York City, Toronto, Charlotte and New York RB), they have won 1 of 2 matches! Three draws in a row here at Citi Field for York, who might be willing to risk more at some point in hope of a win.

The followers are hoping that New York City will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Leagues Cup fixture against New York RB.

Ahead of that fixture, a home victory against Toronto in the Leagues Cup. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does New York City handle that role? We have found 10 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Sports bettors should know that 9 of the most recent 12 league games from this football club have seen goals scored by both teams.

The York fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 14 in 10 matches. New York City's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 13 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. New York City has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Minnesota United form and stats

5-1-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Minnesota United in their Major League Soccer matches away.

Two away games in a row for Minnesota, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-5 vs Nashville SC in the Leagues Cup.

Earlier, the Leagues Cup win away at Toluca (after extra-time, 3-4 on penalties). Minnesota United are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 9 wins, 6 draws and 11 defeats. From a total of 26 matches.

Minnesota United have scored 14 goals on their travels this season, from 12 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Minnesota have conceded 18 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

New York City-Minnesota United H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: New York City two wins, Minnesota United two wins, one draw. three of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Minnesota UnitedB. Hlongwane
B. Hlongwane
6 goals
YorkS. Rodríguez Molina
S. Rodríguez Molina
4 goals

New York City missing players

Minnesota United missing players

New York City Minnesota United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
24 10 2 Played P 0 12 22
5 4 1 Won W 0 5 7
11 4 1 Drew D 0 1 7
8 2 0 Lost L 0 6 8
25 14 2 Scored S 0 14 26
30 13 1 Conceded C 0 18 30
92% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 95%
71% 80% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 73%
33% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 50%
25% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 23%
8% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 14%
67% 80% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 42% 59%
17% 20% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 27%
25% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 18%
 
4.2 4.2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.9 5.3
4.7 4.3 1.5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.3 5.7
2.5 2.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.2 1.6
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.5 15.2 17 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10.8 13.1
4.4 5.7 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.2 4.3
24% 25% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 28% 27%
 
10.8 10.3 4.5 Shots against (avg) S A 0 16.1 14.5
4 4.1 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4.3 4
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Minnesota United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Minnesota United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Minnesota United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • New York City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Cincinnati 23 15 6 2 39 25 12 11 1 0 24 8 11 4 5 2 15 17 14 51
2 New England 23 12 7 4 42 28 12 9 3 0 29 10 11 3 4 4 13 18 14 43
3 Philadelphia Union 23 12 4 7 39 26 11 8 2 1 23 7 12 4 2 6 16 19 13 40
4 Nashville SC 24 11 5 8 31 22 12 8 2 2 21 8 12 3 3 6 10 14 9 38
5 Orlando City 23 10 7 6 34 28 12 5 4 3 18 12 11 5 3 3 16 16 6 37
6 Columbus Crew 23 10 6 7 45 33 12 8 3 1 30 12 11 2 3 6 15 21 12 36
7 Atlanta United 24 9 8 7 42 39 12 7 3 2 27 15 12 2 5 5 15 24 3 35
8 Chicago Fire 23 8 8 7 31 31 12 5 6 1 19 13 11 3 2 6 12 18 0 32
9 DC United 24 8 6 10 32 34 11 4 4 3 20 14 13 4 2 7 12 20 -2 30
10 Montreal Impact 23 9 2 12 22 32 11 8 0 3 17 5 12 1 2 9 5 27 -10 29
11 New York RB 23 6 8 9 22 26 12 5 4 3 16 13 11 1 4 6 6 13 -4 26
12 New York City 24 5 11 8 25 30 10 4 4 2 14 13 14 1 7 6 11 17 -5 26
13 Charlotte 23 6 8 9 30 40 11 3 5 3 15 17 12 3 3 6 15 23 -10 26
14 Toronto 24 3 10 11 18 33 12 3 6 3 11 11 12 0 4 8 7 22 -15 19
15 Inter Miami 22 5 3 14 22 36 11 4 2 5 15 15 11 1 1 9 7 21 -14 18

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Major League Soccer (often known simply as MLS) is the top level of football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. MLS has 24 teams divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. Each team play 34 fixtures to decide a league table champion. The top fourteen teams then compete in playoff to crown a MLS Cup champion.