New York Red Bulls vs New York City FC, MLS 2026 REGULAR SEASON

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Thu 20 Aug 2020 · 23:00 UTC Red Bull Arena HT 45' · FT 45+5'

Overview

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New York Red Bulls vs New York City FC — MLS at Red Bull Arena.

New York Red Bulls 18 games · 25 pts (2026/26)
New York City FC 18 games · 26 pts (2026/26)

Match Details

Referee Allen Chapman
Referee Jose Carlos Rivero
Referee Brian Dunn
Referee Logan Brown
Referee

9 games this season 🟨 2.7/game ⚽ 8.2 goals/game

Standings

#	Team	P	Pts
1	Nashville SC	18	40
2	Internacional CF Miami	18	38
3	New England Revolution	18	30
4	Chicago Fire FC	17	29
5	New York City FC	18	26
6	FC Cincinnati	18	26
7	Charlotte FC	18	25
8	New York Red Bulls	18	25
9	D.C. United SC	18	23
10	Columbus Crew SC	18	20
11	Orlando City SC	18	20
12	Toronto FC	18	17
13	Philadelphia Union	18	16
14	Montreal Impact FC	18	16
15	Atlanta United FC	18	12
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	17	34
17	Los Angeles FC	19	34
18	San Jose Earthquakes	18	33
19	Houston Dynamo	18	32
20	FC Dallas	18	27
21	Real Salt Lake	17	27
22	St. Louis City	18	26
23	Portland Timbers	18	24
24	Seattle Sounders FC	17	24
25	Minnesota United FC	18	24
26	Colorado Rapids SC	18	22
27	Los Angeles Galaxy	19	22
28	San Diego FC	18	21
29	Austin FC	18	17
30	Sporting Kansas City	18	14

Head-to-Head

New York Red Bulls 19 games · Avg 2.5 goals New York City FC

Last 5 meetings

2020-08-20 New York Red Bulls 1–0 New York City FC 2019-08-24 New York City FC 2–1 New York Red Bulls 2019-07-14 New York Red Bulls 2–1 New York City FC 2018-08-22 New York City FC 1–1 New York Red Bulls 2018-07-08 New York City FC 1–0 New York Red Bulls

Recent Form

New York Red Bulls

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
20 Aug	New York City FC	H	1–0	W
23 Jul	FC Cincinnati	A	0–2	L
17 Jul	Columbus Crew SC	A	0–2	L
12 Jul	Atlanta United FC	A	1–0	W
07 Mar	Real Salt Lake	A	1–1	D
01 Mar	FC Cincinnati	H	3–2	W

New York City FC

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
20 Aug	New York Red Bulls	A	0–1	L
02 Aug	Portland Timbers	H	1–3	L
27 Jul	Toronto FC	A	3–1	W
20 Jul	Internacional CF Miami	A	1–0	W
15 Jul	Orlando City SC	H	1–3	L
09 Jul	Philadelphia Union	H	0–1	L

Season Stats

New York Red Bulls		New York City FC
#8	Position	#5
25	Points	26
18	Played	18
7 / 4 / 7	W / D / L	7 / 5 / 6
29	Scored	31
39	Conceded	24
-10	GD	+7
1.39	PPG	1.44
39%	Win %	39%

Key Stats

47% Both Teams to Score
H2H (19 games)

37% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history

16% Clean Sheets
New York Red Bulls this season

17% Clean Sheets
New York City FC this season

New York Red Bulls are 8th (25 pts). New York City FC are 5th (26 pts).

Goal Timing (This Season)

New York Red Bulls

0-15

6/4

16-30

2/1

31-45

5/5

46-60

4/7

61-75

1/5

76+

3/3

■ Scored ■ Conceded

New York City FC

0-15

4/–

16-30

3/4

31-45

2/4

46-60

3/2

61-75

2/2

76+

2/6

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Top Scorers (This Season)

New York Red Bulls

Julian Hall	9 G	2 A
Jorge Ruvalcaba	7 G

New York City FC

Nicolas Fernandez Marcau	11 G	3 A
Hannes Wolf	5 G	1 A
Agustin Ojeda	4 G	3 A

Events

Match Events

0' New York Red Bulls have kicked off against New York City FC. Both sides are eager to make an early statement.
5' Neither side is committing men forward. This has all the hallmarks of a tense, tactical contest.
10' named a earlier, and opted for a in response. A fascinating tactical duel is developing.
15' The midfield battle is intense right now. Both New York Red Bulls and New York City FC are fighting for every inch of the pitch.
20' Supporters expect more eagerness from Gary Mackay-Steven, as he is very good at scoring at Red Bull Arena with 1 goals in the last 1 games.
25' New York Red Bulls currently sit in the Array table. A result here could be decisive in the race for the top positions.
30' Although teams showed high tempo form the start, they seem to slow down a bit. Both sides really need to catch a fire. Otherwise, we have another goalless match.
35' Romania international Alexandru Mitrita has been a key figure this campaign — 0 goals and 0 assists in the Array this season.
40' It looks surprising New York Red Bulls does not make any changes. Aaron Long has some obvious troubles when approaching to the goal.
45' The clock is ticking and both teams know a goal could change everything at this point.
50' New York Red Bulls seems to be on a short break. The game is mainly concentrated in the center. It’s high time they got back to action. Otherwise, it looks like a goalless game.
55' Jesus Medina, a Paraguay , has 0 bookings this season and will need to keep his discipline tonight.
58' What a strike from Kyle Duncan! The score is 1-0.
59' Kyle Duncan is having a superb {COMPETITION} campaign — that is 1 goals this season for the .
64' Both keepers have barely been tested. New York Red Bulls and New York City FC are cancelling each other out in the centre of the park.
69' New York Red Bulls are enjoying more possession but struggling to find a way through a disciplined New York City FC backline.
70' New York City FC manager makes another effort to make the tables turned. Alexandru Mitrita is hanging Valentin Castellanos on the field on 70 minute.
73' Another substitution for New York Red Bulls to replace Jared Stroud by Alejandro Romero Gamarra on 73 minute.
78' While there is no rush on the pitch, let’s have a look at some stats. Cristian Casseres Jr. made 286 appearances and scored 11 goals. He is very likely to score a goal today.
79' Mandela Egbo is ready to make an impact after coming on for Florian Valot at the 79 minute mark.
82' It is a substitution in New York City FC team. Ronald Matarrita is replaced by Gudmundur THorarinsson on 82 minute.
87' While players are taking a pause, let’s have a look at their stats. The teams met 1 times this season with New York City FC winning 0% of all matches.
Game over. The scoreline of 1-0 tells the full story of an entertaining encounter.

Lineups

New York Red Bulls Lineups

Starting XI

Bench

1
David Jensen
39
Mandela Egbo ↑ 79'
10
Kaku ↑ 73'
42
Brian White
17
Benjamin Mines
3
Amr Tarek
21
Omir Fernandez ↑ 79'
74
Tom Barlow ↑ 73'
7
Patrick Seagrist

Coach Chris Armas

New York City FC Lineups

Starting XI

3
Anton Tinnerholm
11
Valentin Castellanos ↓ Alexandru Mitrita 70'
22
Ronald Matarrita ↓ Gudmundur THorarinsson 82'
4
Maxime Chanot
8
Alexander Ring C
6
Alexander Callens
19
Jesus Medina
1
Sean Johnson
16
James Sands
9
Heber
55
Keaton Parks ↓ Gary Mackay-Steven 70'

Bench

Coach Ronny Deila

H2H

H2H Top Scorers

Player	Goals
Valentin Castellanos	5
Maxi Moralez	4
Omir Fernandez	3
Alonso Martinez	3
Andres Perea	3
Bradley Wright-Phillips	2
Heber	2
Daniel Royer	2

Head to Head

New York Red Bulls Form

2020-08-20 New York Red Bulls 1–0 New York City FC W 2020-07-23 FC Cincinnati 2–0 New York Red Bulls L 2020-07-17 Columbus Crew SC 2–0 New York Red Bulls L 2020-07-12 Atlanta United FC 0–1 New York Red Bulls W 2020-03-07 Real Salt Lake 1–1 New York Red Bulls D 2020-03-01 New York Red Bulls 3–2 FC Cincinnati W

New York City FC Form

2020-08-20 New York Red Bulls 1–0 New York City FC L 2020-08-02 New York City FC 1–3 Portland Timbers L 2020-07-27 Toronto FC 1–3 New York City FC W 2020-07-20 Internacional CF Miami 0–1 New York City FC W 2020-07-15 New York City FC 1–3 Orlando City SC L 2020-07-09 New York City FC 0–1 Philadelphia Union L

Predictions

Prediction accuracy

2 / 4

1.35 New York Red Bulls xG

Expected Goals

Dixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo

1.61 New York City FC xG

I would bet for: New York Red Bulls or New York City FC 75% + Both teams to score 59%

Match Result

✓ Correct

New York Red Bulls39% Draw25% New York City FC36%

Actual: New York Red Bulls win

Both Teams to Score

✗ Wrong

Yes59% 0% No41%

Avg goals/match: 2.96

Actual: No — clean sheet

Over / Under Goals

✗ O/U 2.5

Line	Over	Under
± 0.5	93%	7%
± 1.5	79%	21%
± 2.5	56%	44%
± 3.5	34%	66%
± 4.5	18%	82%

Double Chance

New York Red Bulls or Draw

64%

Draw or New York City FC

61%

New York Red Bulls or New York City FC

75%

Half-Time Result

✓ Correct

New York Red Bulls24% Draw45% New York City FC31%

Actual: Draw at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12

1 – 1

12.2%

1 – 2

8.7%

0 – 1

7.5%

2 – 1

7.3%

0 – 0

0 – 2

6.6%

1 – 0

Actual

2 – 2

5.9%

2 – 0

4.7%

1 – 3

4.7%

0 – 3

3.5%

3 – 1

3.3%

Asian Handicap — New York Red Bulls

Handicap	New York Red Bulls covers	Push	New York City FC covers
-2.5	5%	—	95%
-2	5%	9%	86%
-1.5	14%	—	86%
-1	14%	17%	69%
-0.5	31%	—	69%
+0.5	58%	—	42%
+1	58%	20%	22%
+1.5	78%	—	22%
+2	78%	13%	9%
+2.5	91%	—	9%

Clean Sheet

New York Red Bulls keeps clean sheet

21% ✗

New York City FC keeps clean sheet

27% ✓

Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.