New York City won the New York MLS showdown this Saturday by defeating their neighbors and rivals the New York Red Bulls 2-0.
Both goals came in the first half, both were the result of a corner kick and both were goals with a Latin flavor.
In the first minute of the game, the Peruvian Alexander Callens headed the locals ahead and in the 23rd minute the Uruguayan Santiago Rodríguez extended his team’s advantage by taking advantage of a second play following a corner.
The two Big Apple teams are in contention for third place in the East, a conference led by the Philadelphia Union with Montreal in second place.
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Right now, and with both clubs with two games to play before the end of the regular season, the New York Red Bulls are third with 50 points, while New York City is fourth with 49.
Current MLS Champion, New York City He has had a very difficult summer just following Argentine Valentín ‘Taty’ Castellanos left the team, his great reference in attack and who packed his bags to play for Spanish side Girona.
Thus, in the last ten days – not counting this Saturday’s game – they had accumulated a disastrous balance of seven defeats, two draws and a single victory.
However, the New York team seems to have regained some morale this week since, in addition to this triumph in the MLS, on Wednesday they won the Champions Cup once morest Atlas by 2-0, in a clash that faced the champions of the MLS and those of Liga MX.
