4th position in the Major League Soccer table for Orlando City so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 5th-placed New York City visits.
New York City could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Major League Soccer game only three sleeps ago.
It's quite the trip for New York City when visiting Orlando as the cities are 1700 kilometers apart.
Orlando City form and stats
17 points is a decent return from 7 Major League Soccer games here for Orlando City. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. Orlando has a nice streak going on as they have played ten consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Inter Miami defeat 52 days ago. In general it's been a long time since Orlando City tasted defeat here, as they have taken at least one point from their last ten home games in the league.
Orlando travelled for their previous game, a trip to Atlanta United that ended 0-0. Ahead of that match, Orlando City won a home game hosting New York RB (3-1).
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 Orlando have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eleven matches with the results: Won five, drawn one and lost five.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Orlando City as they are travelling to their away game against New York RB in the Major League Soccer. That match is four days after this one.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (15 in 7 games), Orlando City's attacking play is working. Orlando City are not conceding a lot of goals here in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 7 matches.
New York City form and stats
3 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of New York City, who have the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Major League Soccer, playing as the away team in the Major League Soccer this season.
The manager R. Deila was unhappy after their last game, a Major League Soccer match played at their home ground Yankee Stadium. New York City suffered a 1-2 loss to New England (placed 6th). Prior to that match, a home win 4-1 against DC United.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 16 similar matches played by York in our archives, and the results are: five wins for New York City, two draws and nine defeats.
The schedule is very tough for New York City now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Major League Soccer game at Columbus Crew is waiting in only four days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting York as they have only managed to score 6 times from 8 away games in the league. New York City are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 8 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result New York City - Orlando City 1-3 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Orlando three wins, three draws and New York City four victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Mueller 7 goals |  L. Almeida da Cunha 5 goals |  B. Michel 5 goals |
Orlando City missing players
New York City missing players
| Orlando City | New York City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 10 | 7 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 34 | 20 | 8 | Scored | S | 3 | 9 | 26 |
| 20 | 8 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 19 |
| 85% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 78% | 89% |
| 80% | 80% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 33% | 53% |
| 60% | 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 22% | 47% |
| 35% | 40% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 22% | 37% |
| 10% | 10% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 11% |
| 80% | 80% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 22% | 42% |
| 20% | 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 44% | 32% |
| 15% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 56% | 37% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 1.7 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 242 | 122 | 41 | Total Shots | T S | 31 | 92 | 280 |
| 91 | 45 | 18 | Shots on Target | S O | 13 | 34 | 102 |
| 37% | 44% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 26% | 25% |
- New York City has the fewest conceded goals (5) away in Major League Soccer
- New York City has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Major League Soccer
- Orlando City has the most points from losing position (8) in Major League Soccer
- Orlando City has the most scored goals in the first half (17) in Major League Soccer
- Orlando City have not yet lost a game at home.
- Orlando City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Orlando City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as New York City have scored away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Toronto | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 37 |
| 2 | Philadelphia Union | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 34 |
| 3 | Columbus Crew | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 31 |
| 4 | Orlando City | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 28 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 30 |
| 5 | New York City | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 26 |
| 6 | New England | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 25 |
| 7 | New York RB | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | -1 | 23 |
| 8 | Montreal Impact | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 25 | 32 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -7 | 20 |
| 9 | Chicago Fire | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -4 | 19 |
| 10 | Atlanta United | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | -3 | 18 |
| 11 | Nashville SC | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -4 | 18 |
| 12 | Inter Miami | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 15 | -9 | 17 |
| 13 | Cincinnati | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 22 | -19 | 13 |
| 14 | DC United | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -17 | 11 |