Perhaps a welcome break from league football as New York RB & Cincinnati face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the US Open Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
New York RB form and stats
Last season their US Open Cup adventure ended in the semi-finals.3-3-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for New York RB so far this season.
The New York RB fans enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Montreal Impact and win 2-1. Reyes, defender, was given a rating of 8.7/10 in that game, top of the team. Reyes scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 14 of 18 duels.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Toronto that finished 0-0.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does New York RB handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for York as they are travelling to their away game against Seattle Sounders in the Major League Soccer. That match is four days after this one.
New York RB are not conceding a lot of goals here at Red Bull Arena, Harrison in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 7 matches.
Cincinnati form and stats
They also participated in US Open Cup last season. This ended in the round of 32.1-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Cincinnati in their Major League Soccer matches away.
Moreno and Acosta (2) scored in Cincinnati's previous match, the home game against Columbus Crew that ended 3-2. Acosta, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.81. Acosta scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 5 of 9 times.
That result followed a home victory 3-0 versus Montreal Impact in the Major League Soccer.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.
The schedule is very tough for Cincinnati now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Major League Soccer game at Colorado Rapids is waiting in only four days.
The visiting Cincinnati have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 5 games. Cincinnati struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 9 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
York-Cincinnati H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: New York RB four wins, Cincinnati three wins, three draws. two of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  L. Acosta 5 goals |  S. Santos Gomes 4 goals |  J. Moreno Borrero 3 goals |
New York RB missing players
Cincinnati missing players
| New York RB | Cincinnati | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 15 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 5 | ||
| 22 | 17 | Scored | S | 21 | 46 | ||
| 21 | 10 | Conceded | C | 25 | 33 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 60% | 60% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 68% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 56% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 32% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 28% | ||
| 40% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 77% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 47% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 36% | ||
| 32% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 8% | ||
| 4 | 4.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 4 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.5 | ||
| 2 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 11.8 | 11.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 11.2 | ||
| 4 | 4.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.6 | ||
| 22% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 41% | ||
| 6.4 | 5.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 12.5 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.5 | ||
| 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 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 30 |
| 2 | Nashville SC | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 25 |
| 3 | New England | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 24 |
| 4 | Atlanta United | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 24 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 22 |
| 5 | Philadelphia Union | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 21 |
| 6 | DC United | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 19 |
| 7 | Orlando City | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 19 |
| 8 | Columbus Crew | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 18 |
| 9 | Charlotte | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -6 | 18 |
| 10 | New York City | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -1 | 16 |
| 11 | New York RB | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -2 | 16 |
| 12 | Chicago Fire | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -3 | 15 |
| 13 | Inter Miami | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | -3 | 15 |
| 14 | Montreal Impact | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 22 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 19 | -10 | 15 |
| 15 | Toronto | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -5 | 13 |
