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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 Mike Rice. Is a New York City tale being played out on the northwest coast in the state of Washington? That's where former NYCFC striker Héber is grabbing headlines after being traded to Seattle Sounders. Seattle recognised a need for quality alongside star striker Raul Ruidíaz who
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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 Mike Rice. There have been two very different halves to the 2022 season for New York City FC. Highs and lows have been had so far, despite only minor changes to the team. Under Ronny Delia The season had started so strongly for the reigning MLS champions but on
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By Mike Rice. It’s a story that has dragged on but appears to have finally reached its conclusion. Valentin "Taty" Castellanos appears to be on his way to Spain, on loan to newly promoted side Girona FC. Castellanos has had his future discussed almost constantly since New
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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
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By Mike Rice. Two defeats in a week is tough to take for New York City FC, especially when those losses came against two of its biggest rivals. The 3-0 defeat to New York Red Bulls showed cracks in their mentality -- unable to manage the game as well as
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By James Nalton. Second-half goals from Lewis Morgan, Luquinhas, and Omir Fernandez settled this foul-tempered US Open Cup quarterfinal in favour of New York Red Bulls. The former pair were the standout players at Red Bull Arena where Gerhard Struber's side saw off their rivals from across the