Game week two of the Major League Soccer season and the sides have learned from the first fixture. Here's the ultimate Vancouver Whitecaps - New York City pre-match guide:
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting New York City have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 3-4-3 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.
New York City have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 4800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
This has all the signs of an interesting game with lots of action and bustle as both squads are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Let's go!
Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats
In the previous season, Vancouver Whitecaps's league results were 12 wins, 13 draws and 9 losses, producing 6th spot in the Major League Soccer. From these 34 matches they scored 45 goals and let in 45. Playing as the home side in the last season Vancouver Whitecaps managed 10-3-4 (win-draw-lost) with 25 goals and 17 conceded.
Vancouver Whitecaps faced defeat in their previous match, away at Columbus Crew (0-4). Midfielder Gauld was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.42 (out of ten) in that game. Gauld hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 5 of 5 times.
Prior to that, an away loss at Sporting KC.New York City form and stats
Let's have a look at how New York City performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 9 draws and 11 defeats. In total they scored 56 and conceded 36 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 5 and lost 8 with 19/23 goals scored/conceded. Playing away, New York City have won 0 games, drawn 0 and suffered 1 defeat in the Major League Soccer this season.
York are travelling again after losing away to LA Galaxy in their previous match (0-1).
A quick return to home after this game, as New York City are hosting Comunicaciones in the CONCACAF Champions League only three days away.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, New York City has managed 0 goals and let in 1 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head numbers (for the preceeding five meetings): Vancouver Whitecaps won one game, one match ended in a draw and New York City managed three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / zeroVancouver Whitecaps missing players
New York City missing players
| Vancouver Whitecaps | 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 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 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% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Vancouver Whitecaps | Last season | New York City | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 35 | 17 | Played | P | 20 | 38 | ||
| 12 | 10 | Won | W | 5 | 16 | ||
| 13 | 3 | Drew | D | 7 | 11 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 46 | 25 | Scored | S | 24 | 63 | ||
| 48 | 17 | Conceded | C | 27 | 40 | ||
| 91% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 95% | ||
| 77% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 79% | ||
| 60% | 59% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 50% | ||
| 31% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 26% | ||
| 9% | 6% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 16% | ||
| 66% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 58% | ||
| 20% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 10% | 32% | ||
| 23% | 24% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 16% | ||
| 5.1 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.9 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.9 | 4.4 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 7 | 9 | ||
| 10.5 | 11.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.2 | 14.5 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5.1 | ||
| 37% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 32% | ||
| 14.6 | 13.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.1 | 10.3 | ||
| 5 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Austin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | Los Angeles FC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | LA Galaxy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Nashville SC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Portland Timbers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Dallas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Minnesota United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Houston Dynamo | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Real Salt Lake | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Seattle Sounders | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | SJ Earthquakes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Sporting KC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 13 | Colorado Rapids | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 14 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
