New York City vs New York Red Bulls Prediction: Take a risk on the bulls

The New York rivalry will be kindled for the first time in this campaign as the two New York clubs go toe-to-toe for bragging rights. New York City are first to host this clash with The Red Bulls making the short trip to the Citi Field. Both clubs are looking prepared for their first meeting and rightly so, there's a lot of confidence in both camps.

According to the eastern conference table, only 3 points separate these two clubs at the moment. The Red Bulls are currently in 3rd place with 23 points while New York City are in 4th with 20 points. 

Derbies don't come everyday, but when they do, there's a special attention to it. New York City will head into this game with the strong intentions of beating the Red Bulls. Recent form says they can as we can see they had 4 wins and 1 defeat in their last 5 games. They also won back-to-back league games. 

New York City’s last game against Philadelphia Union ended in a 2-1 win for New York City. Alonso Martinez's opening goal in the 2nd minute followed by Hannes Wolf's second in the 45+1’ minute, was enough for the New Yorkers to cruise to victory. They conceded just once, in the 47’ minute, but they were determined to hold onto the narrow lead until the end. According to stats, New York City FC had 43% possession, 7 shots on target and 3 corner kicks.

The Red Bulls have been absolutely brilliant in their last 2 games, especially with their goal scoring record in those games. The Red Bulls scored 8 goals in the last 2 league games and conceded 3. And they hope to carry on the good form when they take on rivals New York City. Results from the last 5 games shows The Red Bulls had 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. 

The last victim of The Red Bulls was DC United and the Red Bulls made sure they didn't hold back in that game. Elias Manoel put New York Red Bulls up just before the halftime whistle (45+2’). And in the second half, Cameron Harper doubled the lead (52’), and then the third also came through Lewis Morgan (57’). Then DC United got a goal back in the 65’ minute but at the dying minutes (90+3’) Cory Burke scored the 4th goal for The Red Bulls. According to stats, New York Red Bulls had 40% possession, 7 shots on target and 5 corner kicks. 

The h2h shows that in the last 20 meetings between both clubs, New York Red Bulls won 9 times while New York City won 7 times and they drew 4 times. 

It's always exciting when these two sides face each other in the league campaign. There's an extra motivation that comes with rivalry games and both clubs will be putting themselves on the line to win this game. 

Match Facts:- New York Red Bulls are unbeaten in the last 3 meetings and they have not conceded in the last 3 meetings. The last 5 meetings ended with lwss than 2.5 goals and the last 6 ended with more than 4.5 cards. Finally, in 7 of the last 9 meetings, there were less than 10.5 corners.

• New York Red Bulls Over 1 Goal at 1.83 Odds
• Both Teams to Score at 1.77 Odds
• New York Red Bulls to Win at 3.20 Odds