Home advantage could prove decisive in New York City - New York RB battle

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Date: Sat 24.August
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Yankee Stadium (54251 seats)

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for New York City - New York RB!

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

It's quite the trip for New York RB when visiting New York City as the cities are 1900 kilometers apart.

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New York City form and stats

New York City are steadily winning Major League Soccer games and points here at Yankee Stadium. 7 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 12 games. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for New York City, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.

New York City's previous game was a Major League Soccer match also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Columbus Crew. The home side are looking to build on that result. In the preceding match a 4-1 victory visiting Cincinnati.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does New York City handle that role? We have found twelve games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The win/draw/lost stats in these games are W7-D4-L1.

A decent goal production from New York City in their home games so far, with 23 goals from 12 league matches. From these home matches, New York City have conceded only 11 goals.

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New York RB form and stats

4-3-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for New York RB in their Major League Soccer matches away.

It's the second away game in a row for New York RB, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus DC United in the Major League Soccer last time out. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting New England.

New York RB are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. From a total of seven matches.

New York RB are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 19 away goals from 13 games (in the league). Defensive performances away have varied in quality as New York RB have conceded 24 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: New York RB - New York City 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): New York City 3 wins, 2 draws and New York RB 5 victories. As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Heber
12 goals / 3 assists
V. Castellanos
10 goals / 4 assists
D. Royer
9 goals / 6 assists

New York City missing players

New York RB missing players

New York City New York RB
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs top Away Total
25 12 1 Played 2 13 27
12 7 1 Won 0 4 12
8 4 0 Drew 1 3 5
5 1 0 Lost 1 6 10
46 23 4 Scored 5 19 46
32 11 2 Conceded 6 24 40
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 100% 100% 100%
80% 58% 100% Over 1.5 100% 77% 78%
60% 50% 100% Over 2.5 100% 62% 63%
44% 42% 100% Over 3.5 100% 54% 48%
20% 25% 100% Over 4.5 100% 23% 22%
60% 50% 100% BTTS 100% 62% 63%
32% 42% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 15% 22%
16% 25% 0% Failed To Score 0% 23% 15%
 
5.5 5.8 7 Corners For (avg) 3 5.2 5.2
5.2 4.2 3 Corners Against (avg) 4 6.1 5.8
2.1 2.1 2 Yellow Cards (avg) 2 2.1 1.6
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 4 5
Key stats this season:
  • New York City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • New York RB haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

New York City
04-08-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 3 - 1 New York City
08-08-19 MLS New York City 3 - 2 Houston Dynamo
11-08-19 MLS Atlanta United 2 - 1 New York City
17-08-19 MLS Cincinnati 1 - 4 New York City
21-08-19 MLS New York City 1 - 0 Columbus Crew
24-08-19 MLS New York City 23:00 New York RB
01-09-19 MLS Vancouver Whitecaps 02:00 New York City
07-09-19 MLS New York City 20:00 New England
11-09-19 MLS New York City 23:00 Toronto
14-09-19 MLS New York City 16:30 SJ Earthquakes
New York RB
27-07-19 MLS New York RB 2 - 3 Columbus Crew
03-08-19 MLS New York RB 2 - 0 Toronto
12-08-19 MLS Los Angeles FC 4 - 2 New York RB
17-08-19 MLS New York RB 1 - 1 New England
22-08-19 MLS DC United 1 - 2 New York RB
24-08-19 MLS New York City 23:00 New York RB
31-08-19 MLS New York RB 23:00 Colorado Rapids
15-09-19 MLS Seattle Sounders 19:30 New York RB
19-09-19 MLS Portland Timbers 02:30 New York RB
22-09-19 MLS New York RB 22:00 Philadelphia Union

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Atlanta United 27 15 3 9 46 30 14 10 3 1 29 9 13 5 0 8 17 21 16 48
2 Philadelphia Union 27 13 6 8 48 40 13 8 3 2 28 14 14 5 3 6 20 26 8 45
3 New York City 25 12 8 5 46 32 12 7 4 1 23 11 13 5 4 4 23 21 14 44
4 New York RB 27 12 5 10 46 40 14 8 2 4 27 16 13 4 3 6 19 24 6 41
5 DC United 28 10 9 9 35 35 15 6 5 4 23 22 13 4 4 5 12 13 0 39
6 New England 26 9 8 9 38 45 13 6 2 5 18 17 13 3 6 4 20 28 -7 35
7 Orlando City 28 9 7 12 35 36 14 6 1 7 19 19 14 3 6 5 16 17 -1 34
8 Toronto 26 9 7 10 41 43 14 6 4 4 28 23 12 3 3 6 13 20 -2 34
9 Montreal Impact 27 10 4 13 39 50 12 6 2 4 17 16 15 4 2 9 22 34 -11 34
10 Chicago Fire 28 8 9 11 42 40 15 7 6 2 31 16 13 1 3 9 11 24 2 33
11 Columbus Crew 28 7 6 15 29 42 15 5 4 6 18 21 13 2 2 9 11 21 -13 27
12 Cincinnati 26 5 3 18 26 61 12 3 1 8 12 25 14 2 2 10 14 36 -35 18