National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's New York City or New England that keep their silverware dream alive.
This stadium has grass, which is not New England's normal surface at their own arena. When appearing on grass New England have performed like this: Played 23 matches yielding 13 wins, 2 draws and 8 defeats with the goal difference 43-33 (scored/conceded).
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for York and New England.
New York City form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Yankee Stadium as New York City have scored 21 goals to get 19 points from 8 games. The overall stats in the Major League Soccer are 6-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).
The New York City goalkeeper Luis Barraza is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 450 minutes without conceding a goal in the Major League Soccer.
New York City's previous game was also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Chicago Fire. The home side are looking to build on that result. Midfielder Rodríguez was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.84 (out of ten) in that game. Rodríguez hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 6 of 8 times and had 33 successful passes (of 37 total).
A strong away win before that one, visiting DC United and winning 2-0.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier York matches with similar probabilities have ended with 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats (from 5 games).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for New York City as they are travelling to their away game against Minnesota United in the Major League Soccer. That match is three days after this one.
York are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Yankee Stadium in their league games, having scored an impressive 21 goals in 8 matches. New York City are not conceding a lot of goals here at Yankee Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 8 matches.
New England form and stats
Last season their US Open Cup adventure ended in the 8th finals.The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for New England so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-3 (win-draw-lose).
New England play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-2 victory visiting Cincinnati. Which player has beaten the opponent goalie seven matches in a row for the away team? The correct answer is Buksa and that is solid stuff! Defender Bye was the best team player with a rating of 8.85. Bye signed up for three assists, hit four key passes and won 9 of 12 duels.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Atlanta United.A new game in only three days for New England, the Major League Soccer home match versus Philadelphia Union. Busy days.
For England, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Stats for the last ten meetings between these two participants are: three wins for New York City, two draws and five wins for New England. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  V. Castellanos Giménez 7 goals |   A. Buksa 7 goals |  T. de Andrade 4 goals |
New York City missing players
New England missing players
| New York City | New England | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 11 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 58 | 38 | Scored | S | 22 | 46 | ||
| 27 | 12 | Conceded | C | 28 | 42 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 84% | ||
| 60% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 92% | 76% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 83% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 29% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 42% | 28% | ||
| 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 83% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 16% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 16% | ||
| 5.3 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.9 | 6 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.4 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 14.9 | 17.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.8 | 14.1 | ||
| 6.2 | 7.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5.2 | ||
| 31% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 35% | ||
| 11.4 | 10.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.2 | 12.7 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Philadelphia Union | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | New York City | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 23 |
| 3 | Orlando City | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | -1 | 21 |
| 4 | New York RB | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| 5 | Montreal Impact | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 20 |
| 6 | Cincinnati | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 19 |
| 7 | Atlanta United | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 16 |
| 8 | Charlotte | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -4 | 16 |
| 9 | New England | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 15 | -1 | 15 |
| 10 | Inter Miami | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -8 | 15 |
| 11 | DC United | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 14 |
| 12 | Columbus Crew | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 13 |
| 13 | Toronto | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -7 | 12 |
| 14 | Chicago Fire | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 11 |
