New York City vs Atlanta United Fc Prediction & Betting Tips - Major League Soccer

New York City FC host Atlanta in a must win game for the both. The New York outfit are clearly having a hard time following the departure of their successful coach. Specifically, they are winless in the four games they have played without him, losing two and drawing the other two as well as slipping from first to fourth. Standards have slipped across all areas of the pitch and the aspect where it is the most visible is the defence. In the five last games of Ronny Deila’s tenure, New York conceded zero goals, recording five wins in the process. In the four games they have played under the new coach, they have won none and conceded a staggering ten goals, including four away to Cincinnati last time out. They tend to light it up at the Yankee stadium however, where they are unbeaten in their nine, winning seven of those games. They are thus the best home team in the Eastern Conference, collecting twenty points from their nine MLS games in New York so far.

Atlanta are in a slump of their own at the moment. They have lost three times in their last five, while last time out they managed to lose a game in which they were leading until the 82nd minute. Defence is clearly their achilles heel at the moment, having kept just one clean sheet in their last eleven. As if that was not enough, they visit the best home team in the division being winless in their last seven games on the road, conceding in all and losing six of them. They will have it all to do in a ground where they have lost their three previous games against NYCFC, scoring just once in the process.