Charlotte vs New York City match preview: Even contest expected at Bank of America Stadium

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 06.May
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Bank of America Stadium

A quick glance at the Major League Soccer standings indicate an advantage to New York City when they visit Charlotte. But; let's await the match before we elect a winner!

Insights:
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals (19) in Major League Soccer
  • New York City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Major League Soccer

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Charlotte form and stats

1-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Charlotte, who have the most conceded goals (19) in Major League Soccer, so far this season.

In their previous game, the manager Lattanzio led his Charlotte to a defeat away at DC United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Bank of America Stadium.

Before that fixture, a home victory against Tormenta in the US Open Cup. The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Charlotte have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 0 and lost 4.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Charlotte, as the US Open Cup home game vs Orlando City is only three days away.

Charlotte have scored {4 league goals} here from 5 matches, not a lot. Charlotte's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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New York City form and stats

The visitors are W0-D3-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer.

There might be some fixture complaints from New York City as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous game, 0-1 against Toronto. That loss was their first after four consecutive league rounds winning points.

That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus Dallas.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by New York City in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for York, 2 draws and 8 defeats.

New York City have another fixture away from home in just four nights, a US Open Cup fixture versus Cincinnati. A back-breaking fixture list for the visitors!

Goals are few and far between in York's away league games. Only {2 goals} from 5 travels.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the preceeding two meetings): Charlotte won two games, zero matches ended with a tie and New York City managed zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / one.

Top Goalscorers

New York CityT. Bacelar Martins
T. Bacelar Martins
3 goals
New York CityS. Rodríguez Molina
S. Rodríguez Molina
3 goals
CharlotteK. Świderski
K. Świderski
2 goals

Charlotte missing players

New York City missing players

Charlotte New York City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 1 5 10
2 1 0 Won W 0 0 4
3 2 0 Drew D 0 2 3
5 2 2 Lost L 1 3 3
10 4 0 Scored S 0 2 12
19 7 4 Conceded C 1 6 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 60% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 70%
70% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 30%
40% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 20%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
60% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 60%
10% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 10%
30% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 60% 30%
 
4.8 5 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5 4.2
4.2 3.6 5 Corners against (avg) C A 2 4.2 4.6
2.5 1.4 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.4 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.8 12.2 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 5 8.6 11.5
3.3 3 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 2 3.9
30% 27% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 20% 31%
 
13.1 12 14 Shots against (avg) S A 11 10 10.5
5.6 5 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 3.2 4
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Charlotte have the fewest points (5) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals (19) in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals in the first half (9) in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the the worst goal difference (-3) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • New York City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • New York City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • New York City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in Major League Soccer
  • New York City have yet to win a game away.
  • New York City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 New England 10 6 3 1 16 9 6 4 2 0 12 3 4 2 1 1 4 6 7 21
2 Cincinnati 10 6 3 1 13 11 5 5 0 0 7 2 5 1 3 1 6 9 2 21
3 Atlanta United 10 5 3 2 19 16 5 4 1 0 11 4 5 1 2 2 8 12 3 18
4 New York City 10 4 4 2 12 10 5 4 1 0 10 5 5 0 3 2 2 5 2 16
5 Nashville SC 10 4 3 3 11 6 6 3 2 1 8 3 4 1 1 2 3 3 5 15
6 Columbus Crew 10 4 2 4 19 12 5 3 1 1 14 4 5 1 1 3 5 8 7 14
7 DC United 10 4 2 4 14 13 5 2 1 2 8 7 5 2 1 2 6 6 1 14
8 Orlando City 9 4 2 3 10 10 6 2 1 3 5 7 3 2 1 0 5 3 0 14
9 Philadelphia Union 9 3 2 4 14 13 5 3 1 1 10 5 4 0 1 3 4 8 1 11
10 Chicago Fire 9 2 5 2 13 13 6 1 5 0 9 8 3 1 0 2 4 5 0 11
11 Toronto 10 1 7 2 12 13 5 1 4 0 7 5 5 0 3 2 5 8 -1 10
12 Inter Miami 9 3 0 6 8 10 4 2 0 2 6 4 5 1 0 4 2 6 -2 9
13 New York RB 10 1 6 3 7 10 4 1 3 0 4 3 6 0 3 3 3 7 -3 9
14 Charlotte 10 2 3 5 10 19 5 1 2 2 4 7 5 1 1 3 6 12 -9 9
15 Montreal Impact 9 3 0 6 7 17 3 2 0 1 5 3 6 1 0 5 2 14 -10 9

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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.