Major League Soccer information and preview: New York RB modest betting favourite to overwhelm Cincinnati

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Wed 12.Jul
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Red Bull Arena, Harrison (26765 seats)

Cincinnati will not bank on any pleasantries from hosts New York RB in this Major League Soccer match. Here's your full guide!

Insights:
  • New York RB have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer
  • Cincinnati have the most clean sheets (9) in Major League Soccer

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.

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New York RB form and stats

When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, New York RB have managed 5 wins, 4 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 11 games. Two home wins in a row for New York RB bring valid hopes of a third.

A nice win for York last time playing, versus New England. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Carmona and Amaya scoring for the victors. Manager Lesesne felt very clever after Carmona scored the winning goal against New England, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 73rd minute. Amaya (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 9.1/10. Amaya scored one goal, hit six key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 43 successful passes (of 51 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Columbus Crew (1-2).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does New York RB handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats.

Goals are plentiful in this team's league rounds, with 5 in a row containing at least three goals (over 2.5).

New York RB are traveling soon after this match as the Major League Soccer match at Real Salt Lake awaits in three days.

York are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 15 goals in 11 games. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches.

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Cincinnati form and stats

Playing away, Cincinnati have won 3 games, drawn 5 and suffered 2 defeats in the Major League Soccer this season.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Charlotte (placed 12th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2. An inspired comeback made the scores level in Cincinnati's duel with Charlotte. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Barreal found the equalizer. The attacker Acosta got a match rating of 8.83 in that game. Acosta scored one goal, served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.

A draw for Cincinnati before that, at their own venue hosting New England (2-2).

Cincinnati are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 7 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats. From a total of 16 matches.

A new game in only three days for Cincinnati, the Major League Soccer home match versus Nashville SC. Busy days.

Cincinnati have scored 13 goals on their travels this season, from 10 away games in the league. As for defending, Cincinnati rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 16 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Cincinnati have avoided a loss in the last 4 matches (1-3-0) versus New York RB.

Top Goalscorers

CincinnatiL. Acosta
L. Acosta
10 goals
CincinnatiD. Badji
D. Badji
4 goals
CincinnatiB. Vázquez Toledo
B. Vázquez Toledo
4 goals

New York RB missing players

Cincinnati missing players

New York RB Cincinnati
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 11 4 Played P 3 10 21
6 5 3 Won W 0 3 13
8 4 1 Drew D 2 5 6
7 2 0 Lost L 1 2 2
20 15 8 Scored S 3 13 34
21 11 2 Conceded C 6 16 23
90% 91% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 90% 95%
62% 73% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 67%
33% 55% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 57%
10% 18% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 40% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 20% 14%
48% 55% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 60% 52%
24% 27% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 43%
38% 27% 25% Failed to Score F T 67% 20% 10%
 
5 5.7 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.9 4.3
3.3 3 3.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 3.8 4.3
2.9 2.4 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.3 2.2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 3
 
14 14.5 14 Shots (avg) S ( 14 12.3 12.7
4.6 4.7 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.7 4.9 4.7
21% 29% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 21% 27% 35%
 
6.8 5.7 5.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12.7 12.8 12
2.7 2.5 2.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.2 4
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Cincinnati have the most clean sheets (9) in Major League Soccer
  • New York RB have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • New York RB have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer

  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 21 13 6 2 34 23 11 10 1 0 21 7 10 3 5 2 13 16 11 45
2 Nashville SC 22 11 5 6 30 17 11 8 2 1 21 6 11 3 3 5 9 11 13 38
3 New England 21 10 7 4 36 27 10 7 3 0 23 9 11 3 4 4 13 18 9 37
4 Columbus Crew 22 10 6 6 43 30 12 8 3 1 30 12 10 2 3 5 13 18 13 36
5 Atlanta United 22 9 8 5 40 35 11 7 3 1 26 13 11 2 5 4 14 22 5 35
6 Philadelphia Union 20 10 4 6 35 24 10 7 2 1 21 6 10 3 2 5 13 16 11 34
7 Orlando City 22 9 7 6 32 27 12 5 4 3 18 12 10 4 3 3 14 15 5 34
8 DC United 23 8 6 9 32 30 11 4 4 3 20 14 12 4 2 6 12 16 2 30
9 New York RB 21 6 8 7 20 21 11 5 4 2 15 11 10 1 4 5 5 10 -1 26
10 Chicago Fire 21 6 8 7 27 31 10 3 6 1 15 13 11 3 2 6 12 18 -4 26
11 New York City 23 5 11 7 24 28 10 4 4 2 14 13 13 1 7 5 10 15 -4 26
12 Charlotte 22 6 8 8 30 38 11 3 5 3 15 17 11 3 3 5 15 21 -8 26
13 Montreal Impact 21 8 2 11 20 29 10 7 0 3 15 5 11 1 2 8 5 24 -9 26
14 Toronto 23 3 10 10 18 32 12 3 6 3 11 11 11 0 4 7 7 21 -14 19
15 Inter Miami 21 5 3 13 22 33 11 4 2 5 15 15 10 1 1 8 7 18 -11 18

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