New York City vs Philadelphia Union: Soccer betting preview

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Date: Sat 29.June
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Yankee Stadium (54251 seats)

New York City will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Philadelphia Union.

The visiting Philadelphia Union played their last game only three days ago, a Major League Soccer match. That game, against New England, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Philadelphia Union.

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New York City form and stats

When playing at home, New York City have managed 2 wins, 4 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 6 games. New York City haven’t lost a game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Toronto. New York City has recorded two wins in a row here at Yankee Stadium, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

A good away victory last time out for New York City, who won 2-1 against DC United. Previous to that game, a home match hosting North Carolina in a game that was won 4-0.

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 New York City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found three matches with the results: Won 1 Drawn 1 Lost 1.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Major League Soccer game versus Seattle Sounders in only four days. This game is also played here at Yankee Stadium.

New York City have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Yankee Stadium with 9 goals in 6 matches. From these home matches, New York City have conceded only 5 goals.

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Philadelphia Union form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (32) in Major League Soccer, on their travels is 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Philadelphia Union are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at New England. Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting DC United's place.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Philadelphia Union playing away and similar expectations, we found five relevant matches. Results were 2 Philadelphia Union wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Philadelphia Union manager J. Curtin as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Orlando City.

Philadelphia Union have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, 8 away games. As opposed to that, Philadelphia Union have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: 6 wins for New York City, 1 draw and 3 wins for Philadelphia Union. Over 2,5 goals: 6 times; under 2,5 goals: 4 games.

Top Goalscorers

J. Medina
1 goals

New York City missing players

Philadelphia Union missing players

New York City Philadelphia Union
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
14 6 2 Played 1 8 18
5 2 0 Won 1 3 9
8 4 2 Drew 0 3 5
1 0 0 Lost 0 2 4
23 9 0 Scored 2 10 32
17 5 0 Conceded 1 10 21
86% 67% 0% Over 0.5 100% 100% 94%
79% 50% 0% Over 1.5 100% 100% 94%
43% 33% 0% Over 2.5 100% 25% 50%
43% 33% 0% Over 3.5 0% 12% 28%
14% 17% 0% Over 4.5 0% 12% 17%
50% 50% 0% BTTS 100% 62% 61%
43% 50% 100% Clean Sheets 0% 12% 28%
21% 33% 100% Failed To Score 0% 25% 17%
 
4.6 4.5 3.5 Corners For (avg) 3 4.8 4.9
4.9 3.7 5 Corners Against (avg) 7 6.4 5
2.1 2.5 1.5 Yellow Cards (avg) 3 2.2 1.8
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 2 3
Key stats this season:
  • All of Philadelphia Union's away matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • New York City have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Philadelphia Union haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

New York City
25-05-19 MLS Chicago Fire 1 - 1 New York City
01-06-19 MLS Columbus Crew 2 - 2 New York City
06-06-19 MLS New York City 5 - 2 Cincinnati
12-06-19 UOC New York City 4 - 0 North Carolina
19-06-19 UOC DC United 1 - 2 New York City
29-06-19 MLS New York City 23:00 Philadelphia Union
03-07-19 MLS New York City 23:00 Seattle Sounders
07-07-19 MLS New York City 22:30 Portland Timbers
10-07-19 UOC Orlando City 23:30 New York City
14-07-19 MLS New York RB 22:30 New York City
Philadelphia Union
29-05-19 MLS Philadelphia Union 1 - 1 Colorado Rapids
02-06-19 MLS Minnesota United 2 - 3 Philadelphia Union
08-06-19 MLS Philadelphia Union 3 - 2 New York RB
12-06-19 UOC DC United 0 - 0 Philadelphia Union
26-06-19 MLS New England 1 - 1 Philadelphia Union
29-06-19 MLS New York City 23:00 Philadelphia Union
03-07-19 MLS Orlando City 23:30 Philadelphia Union
06-07-19 MLS Philadelphia Union 23:00 Orlando City
14-07-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 02:00 Philadelphia Union
20-07-19 MLS Philadelphia Union 23:30 Chicago Fire

  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 Philadelphia Union 18 9 5 4 32 21 10 6 2 2 22 11 8 3 3 2 10 10 11 32
2 DC United 18 8 6 4 24 18 10 5 3 2 16 11 8 3 3 2 8 7 6 30
3 Montreal Impact 19 9 3 7 23 29 8 5 1 2 8 8 11 4 2 5 15 21 -6 30
4 Atlanta United 16 8 2 6 21 14 8 5 2 1 12 4 8 3 0 5 9 10 7 26
5 New York RB 16 7 3 6 27 19 9 5 1 3 17 10 7 2 2 3 10 9 8 24
6 New York City 14 5 8 1 23 17 6 2 4 0 9 5 8 3 4 1 14 12 6 23
7 Toronto 17 6 4 7 29 30 10 4 3 3 21 17 7 2 1 4 8 13 -1 22
8 Chicago Fire 17 4 7 6 25 24 9 4 4 1 18 9 8 0 3 5 7 15 1 19
9 Orlando City 16 5 3 8 22 22 8 3 1 4 14 14 8 2 2 4 8 8 0 18
10 Columbus Crew 17 5 2 10 16 25 10 4 2 4 11 12 7 1 0 6 5 13 -9 17
11 New England 17 4 5 8 18 34 9 3 2 4 8 13 8 1 3 4 10 21 -16 17
12 Cincinnati 17 3 2 12 14 35 7 2 1 4 6 11 10 1 1 8 8 24 -21 11