Match Report
New York City had a chance to win back-to-back games for the first time since April but played out a 1-1 draw with Vancouver Whitecaps at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx. It was one of those stodgy, scrappy Yankee Stadium games that needed some advanced skill and control to tame
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New York City FC returned to winning ways in a midweek matchup against CF Montreal. It was only the team's second win in 18 games as the pressure mounts on head coach Nick Cushing, but there were plenty of promising signs in this 2-0 victory. One of them
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By James Nalton. Something wasn’t quite right at the New York Red Bulls. On the field, the team wasn’t winning games and picked up just one victory in its opening 11 games of the 2023 Major League Soccer season. Off the pitch, it was struggling too. There was
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By James Nalton. Substitute Gabe Segal rescued a point for New York City FC in added time of the second half against Columbus Crew, just as it looked like the team would slump to another disappointing defeat. New York City had been caught napping against the run of play at
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By James Nalton. Initial excitement around the start of the 2023 Major League Soccer season has now settled into run-of-the-mill regular season games, as 29 teams look to at least take one of the 18 available post-season spots. Amid this lull, the US Open Cup, which all MLS teams have
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Defeats like this can be good for a team like New York City FC, depending on the reaction to it. Despite a poor record in recent games and not having lived up to expectations last season, Saturday's opponent Toronto FC isn't a shabby outfit and has
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By James Nalton. The New York area Major League Soccer teams have made indifferent starts to the 2023 season, with neither New York City FC nor New York Red Bulls picking up a win in their first two games of the campaign. This is not an immediate problem, especially given
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By James Nalton. Nashville 2, New York City 0 The 2023 Major League Soccer season produced a strange opening game for New York City FC, which was perhaps to be expected given the exodus of players in the past year -- especially during the offseason between 2022 and 2023. None
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By James Nalton. New York City FC succumbed to a ruthless Philadelphia Union side in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference final, eventually falling to a 3-1 defeat having gone a goal ahead. It was the end of an optimistic run of games as the regular season drew to a
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By James Nalton. The latest Hudson River Derby took place at Yankee Stadium with New York City FC just having won their second trophy in the space of a year there days earlier -- a Campeones Cup to add to the Major League Soccer championship they won at the end
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By James Nalton. The quality of Major League Soccer in comparison to other leagues around the world can be quite difficult to determine given the way the league is run and the way teams are assembled. But the English Football Association has had to assess MLS and its place in
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By James Nalton. It was hardly the US Open Cup, but even a Major League Soccer regular season game with not much on the line -- not yet, really, anyway -- can be a heated affair when that game is a Hudson River Derby. It helps that the two MLS