It's game two of the Major League Soccer season and everything to play for. Read our full preview of Toronto-New York City!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Toronto form and stats
Toronto drew their last game, 2-2 away at SJ Earthquakes. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Seattle Sounders (1-3).
Opportunity lost for Toronto in the SJ Earthquakes match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. Richie Laryea was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against SJ Earthquakes after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today?
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Toronto have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won one time, drawn zero and lost three.
Last season, Toronto's league statistics were 13 wins, 11 draws and 10 losses, resulting in a 4th position in the Major League Soccer. Over these 34 matches they scored 57 goals and conceded 52. Playing at home last season Toronto managed 9-4-4 (win-draw-lost) with 34 goals and 26 conceded.
New York City form and stats
The visitors' first away game in the Major League Soccer ended in defeat. Last season New York City had these away match statistics: Played 17; won 7, drew 5 and lost 5.
New York City are travelling again after losing away to Columbus Crew in their previous match (0-1). A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs San Carlos.
New York City are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, five draws and two defeats. From a total of eleven matches.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Tigres UANL in just four days.
0 goals so far away for New York City, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 1 league match away.
Let's have a look at how New York City performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 1st position in the league table after playing out 18 victories, 10 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 63 and conceded 42 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 7 - drew 5 and lost 5 with 29/26 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Toronto five wins, three draws and New York City two victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 R. Laryea 1 goals |  A. Pozuelo Melero 1 goals |
Toronto missing players
New York City missing players
| Toronto | New York City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Toronto | Last season | New York City | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 18 | Played | P | 17 | 35 | ||
| 16 | 10 | Won | W | 7 | 18 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Drew | D | 5 | 10 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 67 | 39 | Scored | S | 29 | 64 | ||
| 58 | 27 | Conceded | C | 26 | 44 | ||
| 97% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | ||
| 95% | 89% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | ||
| 66% | 83% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 65% | 63% | ||
| 42% | 56% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 41% | 37% | ||
| 18% | 28% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 12% | 17% | ||
| 74% | 83% | BTTS | BTTS | 71% | 69% | ||
| 13% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 23% | ||
| 16% | 6% | Failed to Score | F T | 12% | 14% | ||
| 5.6 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.2 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 5.3 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 489 | 276 | Total Shots | T S | 218 | 515 | ||
| 199 | 111 | Shots on Target | S O | 84 | 195 | ||
| 34% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 33% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | New York RB | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Atlanta United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Montreal Impact | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Columbus Crew | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Toronto | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Orlando City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Cincinnati | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 8 | Chicago Fire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 9 | DC United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | New England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Inter Miami | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | New York City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Philadelphia Union | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |