Patrick Vieira will be without six players for NYCFC’s Sunday evening showdown with the New England Revolution.
Long-term injury absentees Miguel Camargo and Ronald Matarrita are out, while Maxime Chanot will also be on the sidelines for the visit of Jay Heaps’ side.
James Sands has recovered from the injury which kept him out of the last handful of games but has left New York to join up with the U.S U17s for their U17 World Cup preparations in Prague.
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Both Alex Ring and Ethan White are also out of this one as they sit out through suspensions for yellow card accumulation.
On the plus side, Rodney Wallace is now rated as fully-fit and will be in contention for a place in Vieira’s XI at the weekend and Maxi Moralez returns from suspension as NYCFC aim to make it three wins on the spin.
For New England, there could be a couple of debutants lining up in opposition, with Claude Dielna and Krisztian Nemeth both joining Revs training this week.
Otherwise, Heaps will have a full strength squad to choose from as he looks to continue New England’s run of three wins in their last four games.
READ: Major Keys to NYCFC vs. New England
Injury Report
NYCFC
OUT – Miguel Camargo, Maxime Chanot, Ronald Matarrita,
Int’l Duty – James Sands (U.S U17s)
Suspended – Alex Ring, Ethan White
New England
OUT – None
According to MLSSoccer.com
Key Stats
- NYCFC have only beaten the Revolution twice in seven league matches (3L-2D). A loss to New England would give the Revs the third-most league wins against NYCFC of any team (New York and Orlando each have five wins).
- NYCFC’s 2-0 win over LA last weekend was their 12th away win under Patrick Vieira, the most of any team in the league since the start of the 2016 season.
- The Revs are winless in their last 13 road league games (10L-3D), which ties a franchise record, also hit between April 5 and October 6, 2012.
- Yangel Herrera’s assist against LA last weekend was just his second in 13 MLS appearances, and his first since April.
- Teal Bunbury has four goals in his last five MLS appearances after scoring zero times in his first 12 league games of this season.
- The Revolution have scored 12 headed goals this year, tied with Seattle for the most of any team in the league.
- NYCFC have won 80% of the 10 games Yangel Herrera has started (2.5 points per game), and 35.7% of the 14 games he has not started (1.3 points per game).
- NYCFC have scored 13 goals in the middle portion of second halves this year (61st-75th minutes), the second- most goals any MLS team has scored in any 15-minute section of matches this year. The Revs have conceded six goals so far during that part of matches.
- Alexander Callens is fifth in MLS with 57 interceptions this season. Lee Nguyen has 199 key passes since the start of 2015, the third most of any MLS player in that time span.
