The New York Red Bulls took advantage of their local status to beat New York City FC 1-0 and maintain their hegemony in the New York derby, this time more special as it helped them eliminate their city rival and advance to the round of 16 League Cup final.
In the Red Bull Arena with more than 11,000 people in the stands, the home team remained true to their game this season, exhibiting an almost impeccable defense and taking advantage of the opponent’s mistakes to seek to attack on the counterattack, something that worked for them. very well since at minute 31 ‘they forced a penalty in their favor that was later perfectly taken by striker Omir Fenández.
For their part, the ‘Citizens’ also dedicated themselves to deploying their game as they have done this course, coming to take possession of the ball most of the time, but without being able to bring that superiority to the result.
Despite the fact that NYCFC was clearly superior in terms of ball position, both teams generated the same number of shots (7), but the Red Bulls did manage to hit at least one of them under the three sticks.
The most important action of the ‘Celeste’ team occurred at minute 77 when the winger Dayvon Gray went on the attack and managed to get into the rival area in a matter of seconds. There he managed to make a powerful shot but the goalkeeper Carlos Miguel came out to press and ended up making an impressive save, perhaps the best of the game.
With this result, the rojiblanco team extends its hegemony over City in the last 26 matches between all competitions, in which it now exhibits a record of 15 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses.
Now, those led by fjksfsdkj will face the Philadelphia Union, who beat DC United on penalties, after having tied without goals on Thursday night.
