New York Red Bulls vs. Orlando City - prediction, team news, lineups

Yet to support a cleanable expanse successful MLS since February, the New York Red Bulls invited Orlando City to Sports Illustrated Stadium successful Saturday's 18th round.

Separated by 2 places successful the Eastern Conference, the play-off-chasing Red Bulls indispensable debar decision to forestall their 10th-placed visitors from leapfrogging them successful their section.

Match preview

Another crippled has travel and gone, and Michael Bradley's squad person failed to support a shutout successful the league, this clip losing 2-0 to Charlotte FC successful New Jersey.

While the location nonaccomplishment was their archetypal successful beforehand of their supporters since May's decision to Dallas by the aforesaid score, it besides continued the team's hold for occurrence since the league's resumption post-World Cup 2026.

Having suffered a 3-1 defeat astatine the hands of Philadelphia Union pursuing the planetary tournament, the caller reverse continues what has been a below-par commencement for Metro, who entered the hiatus accumulating 10 points from a imaginable 12.

After scoring much than the hostile successful victories implicit the Chicago Fire (3-1), Columbus Crew (3-2) and Kansas City (2-1), the Red Bulls person present failed to find the nett much than erstwhile successful consecutive matches for the archetypal clip since April-May, and present purpose to debar the aforesaid for the 3rd time.

That has not happened since a four-match tally betwixt February and precocious March erstwhile claiming 3 wins during that play saw them concede 10 successful 3 matches — losing 3-0 to CF Montreal and 6-1 to Charlotte, sandwiching a 1-1 gully with Toronto FC — aft a 1-0 occurrence implicit the New England Revolution.

Now looking to extremity their ongoing dearth of goals, Bradley's eighth-placed men could emergence into the coveted top-seven spots with the close result, portion they could conversely descent retired of the wild-card places if this weekend's brushwood goes against them.

Orlando volition look to proceed their longest winning tally of this play by inflicting much misery connected the location broadside successful New Jersey, wherever they past won successful June 2023.

Interim brag Martin Perelman has guided the nine to 4-0 and 1-0 wins implicit the San Jose Earthquakes and Nashville aft the hiatus, strikingly keeping their archetypal cleanable sheets of the campaign.

Maxime Crepeau volition undeniably person a large portion to play astatine Sports Illustrated Stadium, considering that helium has made 9 saves altogether crossed the past 2 wins, including a staggering 7 against San Jose.

That would necessitate the Lions to unafraid consecutive distant MLS wins for the archetypal clip since July 2025, a year-long hold that has witnessed respective disappointing matches connected the road.

In fact, Orlando's 3-1 occurrence implicit Columbus marked their past MLS triumph connected their travels until a 4-3 occurrence implicit Inter Miami successful aboriginal May, highlighting the team's broader bugbear extracurricular of Florida.

Nevertheless, the Red Bulls volition besides beryllium alert that Perelman's men person conceded 31 goals distant from home, much than immoderate broadside successful the Eastern Conference oregon the wide league, magnifying their challenges connected the road.

Nonetheless, that astir apt guarantees amusement for this weekend's trip, adjacent if the travelling supporters whitethorn not fancy their team's prospects of leapfrogging the New Jersey hosts and perchance FC Cincinnati successful seventh.

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Team News

Adri Mehmeti volition service a one-match suspension aft his precocious sending-off successful the nonaccomplishment to Charlotte, portion AJ Marcucci is absent with a semipermanent genu injury.

However, determination is immoderate anticipation that Rafael Mosquera could instrumentality from his thigh wounded this weekend.

Although Julian Hall has not scored successful 4 consecutive MLS matches, the nine-goal guardant is the Red Bulls' starring marksman heading into the 18th gameweek.

Orlando's Antoine Griezmann neither scored nor assisted past clip retired against Nashville, but the 2018 World Cup victor did find the nett successful his debut against San Jose arsenic the Lions ran riot and aims to adhd to his sole strike.

Without 11-goal guardant Martin Ojeda, though, the distant broadside indispensable find different goalscoring solutions successful New Jersey.

In summation to Ojeda (thigh), Joran Gerbet (ACL) and Nolan Miller (knee) are besides successful the wars, portion Clovis Archange and Colin Guske are connected planetary work astatine the U20 CONCACAF Championship.

New York Red Bulls imaginable starting lineup:

Horvath; Marshall-Rutty, Che, Nealis, Dos Santos; Donkor, Berggren, Forsberg; Cowell, Hall, Ruvalcaba

Orlando City imaginable starting lineup:

Crepeau; Dorsey, Teodoro, Jansson, Rhein; Angulo, Otavio, Ojeda, Souza; Griezmann, Ellis

We say: New York Red Bulls 3-3 Orlando City

Although Orlando City get successful New Jersey connected a precocious pursuing back-to-back victories and cleanable sheets, their porous distant grounds suggests they volition conflict to support Bradley's hopeless hosts astatine bay for 90 minutes. 

With the Red Bulls arsenic susceptible astatine the backmost and lacking antiaircraft consistency, an entertaining end-to-end brushwood should spot some playoff contenders settee for a stock of the spoils.

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