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 26 games · 33 pts (2026/26)
New York City FC 27 games · 33 pts (2026/26)

Match Details

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

11 games this season 🟨 2.6/game ⚽ 9.2 goals/game

Standings

#	Team	P	Pts
1	Nashville SC	27	60
2	Internacional CF Miami	27	46
3	New England Revolution	27	46
4	Charlotte FC	27	43
5	Chicago Fire FC	26	42
6	Philadelphia Union	27	39
7	Orlando City SC	27	34
8	New York City FC	27	33
9	FC Cincinnati	26	33
10	New York Red Bulls	26	33
11	D.C. United SC	26	30
12	Columbus Crew SC	27	29
13	Toronto FC	27	29
14	Atlanta United FC	27	27
15	Montreal Impact FC	27	24
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	26	50
17	FC Dallas	27	47
18	San Jose Earthquakes	27	45
19	St. Louis City	26	44
20	Houston Dynamo	27	44
21	Los Angeles FC	28	41
22	Colorado Rapids SC	27	36
23	Los Angeles Galaxy	28	36
24	Seattle Sounders FC	26	35
25	San Diego FC	27	32
26	Portland Timbers	27	32
27	Real Salt Lake	27	32
28	Austin FC	27	31
29	Minnesota United FC	27	29
30	Sporting Kansas City	26	21

Head-to-Head

New York Red Bulls 20 games · Avg 2.4 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
#10	Position	#8
33	Points	33
26	Played	27
9 / 6 / 11	W / D / L	8 / 9 / 10
34	Scored	41
48	Conceded	36
-14	GD	+5
1.27	PPG	1.22
35%	Win %	30%

Key Stats

45% Both Teams to Score
H2H (20 games)

35% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history

23% Clean Sheets
New York Red Bulls this season

19% Clean Sheets
New York City FC this season

New York Red Bulls are 10th (33 pts). New York City FC are 8th (33 pts).

Goal Timing (This Season)

New York Red Bulls

0-15

6/4

16-30

2/3

31-45

5/6

46-60

5/8

61-75

2/6

76+

5/4

■ Scored ■ Conceded

New York City FC

0-15

5/2

16-30

4/4

31-45

5/5

46-60

4/4

61-75

4/6

76+

2/7

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Top Scorers (This Season)

New York Red Bulls

Julian Hall	10 G	2 A
Jorge Ruvalcaba	7 G

New York City FC

Nicolas Fernandez Marcau	15 G	4 A
Agustin Ojeda	5 G	5 A
Hannes Wolf	5 G	1 A

Events

Match Events

0' Here we go! The referee blows the whistle and New York Red Bulls launch into their encounter with New York City FC.
5' Alexandru Mitrita has been one of the livelier players on the pitch with 0 goals to his name this season.
10' A quiet spell here at Red Bull Arena. New York City FC seem content sitting deep and soaking up pressure.
15' Players seem to put ease on their energy level Spectators hardly appreciate such approach. Teams need to speed up the tempo.
20' The teams are not in a rush to score plenty of goals. It might look strange considering New York Red Bulls that had 290 games and scored 425 goals.
25' Matchday of the Array and both teams know exactly what is at stake tonight.
30' 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.
35' The referee has had an easy afternoon — neither side has been overly physical in the tackle.
40' New York Red Bulls are deployed in a today, looking to exploit space against New York City FC's shape.
45' New York Red Bulls are enjoying more possession but struggling to find a way through a disciplined New York City FC backline.
50' The travelling New York City FC supporters hardly appreciate their team being pressed down to the backline.
55' New York Red Bulls is showing some good football. However, New York Red Bulls are ready to play back every minute. It might result in some problems for the home side. The game will hardly remain goalless.
58' What composure from Kyle Duncan! The Jamaica international strokes it home. 1-0.
59' Kyle Duncan is having a superb {COMPETITION} campaign — that is 1 goals this season for the .
64' The Array continues to deliver drama. Both New York Red Bulls and New York City FC are desperate not to drop points on matchday .
69' Spectators do not have much to choose from both teams. The sides had several scoring chances but they still need a bit more than just a sight of a goal.
70' New York City FC make a change. Valentin Castellanos trudges off to be replaced by Alexandru Mitrita on 70 minutes.
73' Another change for New York Red Bulls made on 73 minute. Jared Stroud leaves to be changed by Alejandro Romero Gamarra.
78' New York Red Bulls have won 425 goals from 290 games. They will be desperate to add to that tally today.
79' Fresh legs for New York Red Bulls! Mandela Egbo comes on to replace Florian Valot.
82' New York City FC ring the changes. Ronald Matarrita has done his job and it is now time for Gudmundur THorarinsson to step up.
87' Sean Johnson has been disciplined this evening — perhaps mindful of those 0 cards already picked up this season.
With this win, New York Red Bulls is likely to improve its situation in the overall team standings.

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
Julian Hall	2
Bradley Wright-Phillips	2
Heber	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

3 / 4

1.2 New York Red Bulls xG

Expected Goals

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

1.33 New York City FC xG

I would bet for: New York Red Bulls or New York City FC 73%

Match Result

✓ Correct

New York Red Bulls40% Draw27% New York City FC33%

Actual: New York Red Bulls win

Both Teams to Score

✗ Wrong

Yes52% 0% No48%

Avg goals/match: 2.53

Actual: No — clean sheet

Over / Under Goals

✓ O/U 2.5

Line	Over	Under
± 0.5	90%	10%
± 1.5	72%	28%
± 2.5	46%	54%
± 3.5	25%	75%
± 4.5	12%	88%

Double Chance

New York Red Bulls or Draw

67%

Draw or New York City FC

60%

New York Red Bulls or New York City FC

73%

Half-Time Result

✓ Correct

New York Red Bulls24% Draw49% New York City FC27%

Actual: Draw at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12

1 – 1

13.6%

0 – 0

10%

0 – 1

9.5%

1 – 0

Actual

1 – 2

8.1%

2 – 1

7.4%

0 – 2

6.8%

2 – 0

5.6%

2 – 2

1 – 3

3.6%

0 – 3

3 – 1

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%	18%	68%
-0.5	32%	—	68%
+0.5	62%	—	38%
+1	62%	20%	18%
+1.5	82%	—	18%
+2	82%	11%	6%
+2.5	94%	—	6%

Clean Sheet

New York Red Bulls keeps clean sheet

27% ✗

New York City FC keeps clean sheet

31% ✓

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