NYCFC: S1E4 New York City FC 0 vs. Sporting Kansas City 1

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Recap Corner

Boy do I hate being right in this scenario. In front of a sold out crowd of 27,545 fans NYCFC came up a goal short in their one zero loss to Sporting Kansas City. New York City Football Club's first loss of the season now drops them down to 3rd place in the Eastern Conference, tied with Orlando City SC at 5 points. NYCFC was without forward David Villa, midfielder Sebastian Velasquez and defender Josh Williams due to injury. Furthermore forwards Khiry Shelton and Adam Nemec were unavailable due to international call ups. The lone goal came from a thrown in by Sporting KC's Captain, Matt Besler, which was targeted for the head of the rushing Ike Opara's head who struck the ball like lightning. This time around Josh Saunders was not able to make a save. From my point of view it seemed like Sporting Kansas City's strategy in the first half was to stuff NYCFC on their half of the field basically using the smaller Yankee Stadium field as a disadvantage. Every time NYCFC had the ball it appeared they could not get out of the half line mark. The Club either lobbed the ball too far, made erroneous passes or lost control of the ball. It wasn't until late in the first half that NYCFC started to find some open space and they played a much better and fluid game in the second half yet missed key shots on goal. Next up for NYCFC is an away Match against the Philadelphia Union on April 11th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTteLtc3Njc

Analysis Corner

Matt Reed appears on the show and we discuss the following:

Recap/ Analysis of the game against Sporting Kansas City
How our team adapted to not have key starters such as David Villa.
Khiry Shelton vs Adam Nemec
What MetroSoccerNation.com is currently working on.

Podcast Links

NYCFC.com - NYCFC Vs Sporting Kansas City Match Recap MetroSoccerNation.com - New York City FC saw major contributions from reserves against Sporting KC

 
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