A week eliminated from celebrating a 3rd Supporters’ Shield name in six years, the Red Bulls find themselves on the point of elimination after dropping at MAPFRE Stadium on Sunday.

Neither team had many scoring probabilities, but Crew SC capitalized on theirs and the Red Bulls were left to lament a lack of sharpness within the attacking third. While a lot of their fanatics are freaking out on social media, the Red Bulls are as calm as may be heading into the second one leg at Red Bull Arena, in which the club changed into 14-2-1 during the regular season.

“There’s quite a few notion in what we’re doing right here from within those walls, mainly at domestic,” Chris Armas said. “It’s a confident group we've got and it stays confident. That comes from successes this year in the Champions League and previous playoff stories that have made us sense we’re geared up for this.”

    Suspended: None

    Suspended after subsequent caution: M - Sean Davis

    International obligation: None

    Injury Report: OUT: M - Florian Valot (torn left ACL), D - Kyle Duncan (torn right ACL), M - Vincent Bezecourt (right MCL surgery), M - Ben Mines (damaged left clavicle surgical operation)

Projected Starting XI

(4-2-three-1, right to left)

GK: Luis Robles — Michael Murillo, Tim Parker, Aaron Long, Kemar Lawrence — Tyler Adams, Sean Davis — Alex Muyl, Kaku, Danny Royer — Bradley Wright-Phillips

The starting leg of the Eastern Conference Semifinals went about in addition to viable for Crew SC, who earned a win and didn’t concede an away intention at MAPFRE Stadium on Sunday.

Now, Columbus head to Red Bull Arena seeking to reach the Eastern Conference finals for a 2nd directly yr. And Crew SC do so with the confidence of having been one in every of only two groups to earn a win at Red Bull Arena this 12 months.

“I think we’re doing nicely. There’s nevertheless matters we are able to improve on. I assume when I take a look at final sport, we will improve on a number of areas and we must use this week to cognizance on that,” Berhalter said. “The mind-set of the men has been great, the mind-set has been notable and we need to use that to preserve getting better.”

    Suspended: None

    Suspended after subsequent caution: M - Federico Higuain, M - Eduardo Sosa, D - Milton Valenzuela

    International obligation: None

    Injury Report: OUT: M - Mike Grella (left knee meniscectomy), M - Niko Hansen (proper ankle)

Projected Starting XI

(4-four-2, proper to left)

GK: Zack Steffen — Harrison Afful, Jonathan Mensah, Gaston Sauro, Milton Valenzuela — Pedro Santos, Artur, Wil Trapp, Justin Meram — Gyasi Zardes, Patrick Mullins

New York RB vs Columbus: Head-to-head

New York RB lead the face to face tie by a unmarried win, however they’ve determined Columbus Crew very difficult to beat within the most recent set of H2H affairs.

The Crew won 3 and drew certainly one of beyond four encounters towards the Bulls.

Both teams have been heading in the right direction in 3 of beyond 4 head to head outings.

The New York Red Bulls can't truly show up and assume to win games simply because they were the top group inside the league this season. They found that out the hard way with their 1-zero away loss to the Columbus Crew in the away playoff fixture of their Eastern playoff collection. The Red Bulls didn't create tons offense inside the first playoff recreation, however Bradley Wright-Phillips got here near scoring the equalizer just before the very last whistle. The Red Bulls had 71 points this season with 22 wins, 5 attracts and seven losses. They owned the fourth nice offence with sixty two desires as well as the first-class protecting file with just 33 allowed in 34 ordinary league outings. They had the nice domestic document in the league in 2018 at 14 victories, a draw and  losses at the same time as outscoring the traffic 36-10. The loss to the Crew snapped their six-recreation league unbeaten streak, which included 5 straight wins and one draw.

The Columbus Crew persevered to surprise the relaxation of the league as they upended the New York Red Bulls 1-zero at domestic to kick off their Eastern Conference semifinal collection. The 5th seeded Crew already took care of fourth seeded DC United in a penalty shootout in the opening spherical after drawing 1-1 in ordinary time and a couple of-2 in extra time, and that they now have a hazard to knock off the first region Red Bulls. The club's top goalscorer Gyasi Zardes scored inside the 61st minute and that changed into all the Crew wished whilst goalkeeper Zack Steffen published the smooth sheet. Columbus now has 4 wins of their closing ten league and playoff fits along side 3 losses and 3 draws. They were the 12th satisfactory away aspect this season with three wins, five attracts and nine losses and were outscored 24-11.

It isn't always going to be easy for the Red Bulls to advance for the reason that they will want to attain three times if they concede a intention on this playoff game. However, I accept as true with they may win the 90-minute suit, but advancing to the subsequent spherical is up inside the air. 

New York RB vs Columbus: Prediction

The Bulls nevertheless remain favourites to get lower back into the competition after dropping the first leg. They have a amazing astounding document on the house patch (14 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss) inside the regular season. They ended the ordinary campaign with a thread of 5 straight wins conceding simply as soon as in the manner.

On the alternative hand, the Crew are winless in closing seven video games on the road. They misplaced 3 and drew one in every of past 4 away matches within the league. We hence have to lower back the Supporters Shield champions to pick up the victory at 1.Sixty six right here.

    New York RB to win @ 1.66 (4/6)

    New York RB to qualify @ 2.37 (eleven/eight).