Nashville SC will put an undefeated sequence of nine games on the line on Saturday when she welcomes the New York City FC in a battle of the Eastern Conference.
Nashville (8-4-4, 28 points) participates in the third competition of the eastern conference of the major football league. Gold boys are on a 6-0-3 race in all competitions and an increase of 4-0-3 in MLS.
The NYCFC (7-6-3, 24 points) is only four points behind Nashville but is in eighth place in the East ranking.
Nashville returns to his house after playing a 2-2 draw to the winner of the 2023 MLS Cup, Columbus Crew on Wednesday.
Sam Surridge and Hany Mukhtar marked for Nashville, who won despite the fact of exceeding 21-13 and finishing with 38.1% of the possession of the ball. The crew needed a own goal from defender Jeisson Palacios in the 81st minute to win the draw.
“Game difficult in general,” Mukhtar told Tennessean. “Credit to the group, we have fought. I think it shows the mentality of this group. If we are not at the top of a team, we still fight and it is very difficult to break down.”
The NYCFC posted consecutive victories at home against the New York Red Bulls (2-0 on May 17) and the Chicago Fire (3-1 Sunday) before its undefeated sequence of three games was broken by the Houston Dynamo 3-0 on Wednesday at Rainy Yankee Stadium.
New York, despite the possession of the ball 62.2% of the time, only managed one goal in the botched conditions, and that did not come before the 58th minute. Meanwhile, the former NYCFC striker Gabe Segal scored a splint, and the Dynamo also obtained a own goal from Justin Haak from New York.
“We have created nothing, nothing at all,” said New York coach Pascal Jansen. “They made things really difficult for us. They defended very, very aggressive, with a lot of bodies in the middle.”
He scored the third time in the last five MLS games that New York was bleached.
– field level media