New York City fights Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer battle

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Date: Sun 07.July
Match begins: 22:30 (UTC)
Venue: Yankee Stadium (54251 seats)

There should be a significant difference in quality between these teams based on table positions so far, with New York City leading Portland Timbers by 9 points.

New York City have less rest than Portland Timbers in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Major League Soccer game only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Seattle Sounders, was also a home game here at Yankee Stadium. The away team is better rested.

This pitch has grass, which is not Portland Timbers's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Portland Timbers have performed like this: Played 32 matches resulting in 10 wins, 6 draws and 16 defeats with the goal stats 46-65 (scored/conceded). Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 4600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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New York City form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Yankee Stadium as New York City, who have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Major League Soccer, have scored 16 goals to get 16 points from 8 games. The overall stats are 4-4-0 (wins-draws-losses). New York City haven’t lost a game in 14 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Toronto. After failing to beat Orlando City here at Yankee Stadium, New York City has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

New York City's last game was hosting Seattle Sounders and winning 3-0. Before that, New York City had a home game versus Philadelphia Union which ended with a victory 4-2.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier New York City matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats (from four games).

There will be little rest for New York City after this match as they are travelling to Orlando City for a US Open Cup game in only three days.

The New York City manager Domènec Torrent has got the team scoring with 16 from 8 home games. From these home matches, New York City have conceded only 7 goals.

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Portland Timbers form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their travels is 4 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats.

The supporters enjoyed Portland Timbers's previous game versus Dallas, a Major League Soccer 1-0 win played at home. Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Montreal Impact's place.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Portland Timbers playing away, we found five games. Results were 2 away wins, 0 draws and 3 home wins.

Portland Timbers has another fixture away, a US Open Cup game, against Los Angeles FC in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!

Portland Timbers find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 18 goals from 13 away fixtures. Portland Timbers have conceded 25 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last four meetings: 1 - 0 - 3 (New York City wins - draws - Portland Timbers wins). As for goals, 2 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

B. Fernández
3 goals / 1 assists
J. Medina
1 goals

New York City missing players

Portland Timbers missing players

New York City Portland Timbers
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs top Away Total
16 8 3 Played 2 13 16
7 4 2 Won 1 4 6
8 4 1 Drew 0 2 2
1 0 0 Lost 1 7 8
30 16 7 Scored 4 18 25
19 7 3 Conceded 3 25 28
88% 75% 100% Over 0.5 100% 100% 100%
81% 62% 67% Over 1.5 100% 92% 88%
50% 50% 33% Over 2.5 100% 85% 81%
44% 38% 33% Over 3.5 50% 31% 38%
19% 25% 33% Over 4.5 0% 15% 19%
50% 50% 67% BTTS 100% 77% 69%
44% 50% 33% Clean Sheets 0% 0% 12%
19% 25% 0% Failed To Score 0% 23% 19%
 
5 5.2 5.7 Corners For (avg) 1.5 4.8 5.2
4.9 4 2.3 Corners Against (avg) 4.5 5.5 5
2.1 2.2 2.3 Yellow Cards (avg) 2 2.1 2.2
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 2 2
Key stats this season:
  • New York City have not yet lost a game at home.
  • New York City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Portland Timbers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Portland Timbers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Portland Timbers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

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 4 - 2 Philadelphia Union
03-07-19 MLS New York City 3 - 0 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
21-07-19 MLS Colorado Rapids 01:00 New York City
26-07-19 MLS New York City 23:30 Sporting KC
Portland Timbers
13-06-19 UOC Seattle Sounders 1 - 2 Portland Timbers
20-06-19 UOC Portland Timbers 4 - 0 LA Galaxy
23-06-19 MLS Portland Timbers 4 - 0 Houston Dynamo
26-06-19 MLS Montreal Impact 2 - 1 Portland Timbers
01-07-19 MLS Portland Timbers 1 - 0 Dallas
07-07-19 MLS New York City 22:30 Portland Timbers
11-07-19 UOC Los Angeles FC 02:30 Portland Timbers
14-07-19 MLS Portland Timbers 03:00 Colorado Rapids
19-07-19 MLS Portland Timbers 02:00 Orlando City
22-07-19 MLS Seattle Sounders 01:30 Portland Timbers

  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 20 10 5 5 37 26 10 6 2 2 22 11 10 4 3 3 15 15 11 35
2 DC United 20 8 7 5 25 21 11 5 4 2 17 12 9 3 3 3 8 9 4 31
3 Montreal Impact 20 9 3 8 24 31 8 5 1 2 8 8 12 4 2 6 16 23 -7 30
4 New York City 16 7 8 1 30 19 8 4 4 0 16 7 8 3 4 1 14 12 11 29
5 Atlanta United 18 9 2 7 24 20 9 6 2 1 14 5 9 3 0 6 10 15 4 29
6 New York RB 18 8 3 7 30 24 10 6 1 3 20 11 8 2 2 4 10 13 6 27
7 Toronto 19 6 5 8 30 33 10 4 3 3 21 17 9 2 2 5 9 16 -3 23
8 New England 19 6 5 8 22 36 10 4 2 4 10 14 9 2 3 4 12 22 -14 23
9 Chicago Fire 19 5 7 7 31 28 10 5 4 1 23 10 9 0 3 6 8 18 3 22
10 Orlando City 18 6 3 9 25 25 9 3 1 5 15 17 9 3 2 4 10 8 0 21
11 Columbus Crew 19 5 2 12 16 28 11 4 2 5 11 14 8 1 0 7 5 14 -12 17
12 Cincinnati 18 3 2 13 15 42 7 2 1 4 6 11 11 1 1 9 9 31 -27 11