New York Red Bulls vs San Diego Prediction & Betting Tips

Form: goals at both ends

Red Bulls' last 20 matches read 6 wins, 4 draws and 10 losses, with 24 scored and 36 conceded. San Diego's equivalent run is 7 wins, 5 draws and 8 losses, scoring 33 and conceding 34.

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New York Red Bulls: 20 completed matches; San Diego: 20 completed matches.

New York Red Bulls

20 matches

Win

30% 6 / 20

Draw

20% 4 / 20

Loss

50% 10 / 20

Scored

24

Conceded

36

Difference

-12

San Diego

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

33

Conceded

34

Difference

-1

On paper San Diego's recent record is the healthier of the two, with more wins and fewer losses, though both sides have been leaking goals at a similar rate.

History: one match, limited relevance

The only meeting on record between these two is a friendly from last February, which San Diego won 6-0 on their own turf.

That was a pre-season exhibition rather than a competitive fixture, played at a different venue to this one, so it doesn't tell us much about how this game might go.

League position: not much separates them

Red Bulls sit 8th with 33 points from 26 games, a record of 9 wins, 6 draws and 11 losses. San Diego are 11th with 31 points from the same number of matches, at 8-7-11.

Only two points and a handful of places split them, and San Diego have actually scored more goals overall, 44 to Red Bulls' 34, despite sitting lower in the table.

Players and fitness notes

A. Dreyer has been San Diego's main creative outlet, racking up 10 assists in 25 appearances, so how he's dealt with could shape the game. R. Donkor has picked up 8 yellow cards in 24 matches for Red Bulls, a booking risk worth noting.

New York Red Bulls:

Penalty cards:

R. Donkor x 8

Injury list:

C. Harper

M. Sofo

R. Donkor

D. Nealis

M. Dos Santos

J. Hall

M. Jimenez

A. Mehmeti

R. Mosquera

D. Ruiz

O. Valencia

J. Che

A. Marcucci

J. Marshall-Rutty

San Diego:

Best assist providers:

A. Dreyer - 10

Injury list:

L. Morgan

D. Vazquez

W. Eisner

E. Achouri

Gabriel Pirani

A. Pellegrino

O. Valakari

S. Vines

dos Santos CJ

A. Mighten

Both squads have several players carrying injury question marks, including Morgan, Vazquez and Eisner for San Diego and Harper, Sofo and Nealis for Red Bulls. None of that confirms absences for this particular fixture given how far out it still is, and a number of other names on both lists are simply tied up with international duty rather than genuinely doubtful.

Could this one be open?

San Diego have conceded 34 in their last 20 games and Red Bulls 36 in theirs, while the wider league numbers show San Diego at 44 goals for and 44 against and Red Bulls at 34 for and 48 against.

None of that points to a side likely to keep things tight at the back, so a low-scoring, cagey affair looks like the less probable outcome based on what both teams have shown recently.