New York City FC - FC Cincinnati

New York City FC

Major League Soccer - MLS Season 2026 - Round 9

Thursday 23 April 2026 00:30

4 - 4

Finished

Referee: Sergiy Boyko

FC Cincinnati

Result

Ball possession

55%

45%

Timeline

Nicolás Ezequiel Fernández Mercau

1-0

20'

23'

Teenage Lingani Hadebe (out)
Alvas Elvis Powell (in)

32'

1-1

Ahoueke Steeve Kévin Denkey

Nicolás Ezequiel Fernández Mercau

2-1

35'

50'

Gilberto Ivan Flores Melgarejo

Agustin Ojeda

3-1

53'

59'

VAR

Goal cancelled
Evander da Silva Ferreira

60'

Gilberto Ivan Flores Melgarejo (out)
Brian Anunga (in)

60'

Ender Jesús Echenique Peña (out)
Gerardo Valenzuela (in)

65'

3-2

Ahoueke Steeve Kévin Denkey

71'

Kyle Smith

Hannes Wolf (out)
Keaton Alexander Parks (in)

72'

Maximiliano Nicol Moralez (out)
Talles Magno Bacelar Martins (in)

72'

Talles Magno Bacelar Martins

4-2

79'

83'

Tom Barlow (out)
Ayoub Jabbari (in)

Agustin Ojeda (out)
Jonathan Shore (in)

84'

Nicolás Ezequiel Fernández Mercau (out)
(in)

84'

Tayvon Gray (out)
Strahinja Tanasijević (in)

90'

4-3

Player unknown

90'

4-4 P

Evander da Silva Ferreira

90+6'

Brian Anunga

Odds

1X2	10Bet	888Sport	Bet365	Betano	Betfair	BetVictor	Dafabet	Marathonbet	Pinnacle	SBO	Unibet	William Hill
1 New York City FC	1.81	1.83	1.85	1.83	1.80	1.83	1.90	1.79	1.85	1.86	1.84	1.83
X Draw	3.80	3.60	4.00	3.85	3.90	3.80	3.90	3.82	3.96	3.50	3.75	3.60
2 FC Cincinnati	3.95	3.75	3.90	4.05	4.00	3.80	3.85	3.98	4.03	3.50	3.95	3.75

Previous confrontations (H2H)

10 New York City FC

3 Draw

6 FC Cincinnati

63% Over 2.5 goals

53% Both teams scored

3.4 Goals per match

5 | 5 Clean sheets

🔥 New York City FC won the last 2 head-to-head meetings

Biggest win: New York City FC 5-0 FC Cincinnati (2021)

Most goals: FC Cincinnati 4-4 New York City FC (2022)

Goals scored all matches

2.00

1.37

Goals in home matches

2.78

1.60

Goals in away matches

1.30

1.11

Above is calculated based on the below matches

2025-08-24 Sunday 00:30

Won 😎

FC Cincinnati

New York City FC 3

2025-05-04 Sunday 20:00

Won 😀

New York City FC 3

FC Cincinnati 2

2024-11-09 Saturday 21:00

Draw 🤔

FC Cincinnati 3 P5

(5) 0

New York City FC 3 P6

(6) 0

2024-11-02 Saturday 21:00

Won 😎

New York City FC 2 P

FC Cincinnati 3

2024-10-28 Monday 22:45

Won 😀

FC Cincinnati 2

New York City FC 2

2024-10-03 Thursday 00:30

Won 😀

New York City FC 5 P

FC Cincinnati P

2024-08-06 Tuesday 01:00

Won 😎

FC Cincinnati

New York City FC 2

2024-03-23 Saturday 23:30

Won 😀

FC Cincinnati

New York City FC

2023-08-27 Sunday 00:30

Walkover 🔥

FC Cincinnati 2

New York City FC 2

2023-06-01 Thursday 00:30

Won 😎

New York City FC 7

FC Cincinnati 4 P

2023-05-11 Thursday 00:00

Won 😀

FC Cincinnati 3

New York City FC 2

2022-09-08 Thursday 01:00

Draw 🤔

New York City FC 3

FC Cincinnati

2022-06-30 Thursday 00:30

Draw 🤔

FC Cincinnati 3

New York City FC 2

2021-09-19 Sunday 00:30

Won 😎

FC Cincinnati 2 2

New York City FC 5 P

2021-04-24 Saturday 18:00

Walkover 🔥

New York City FC 2

FC Cincinnati 2

2020-09-27 Sunday 00:00

Walkover 🔥

New York City FC 3

FC Cincinnati 2

2020-09-13 Sunday 00:00

Won 😀

New York City FC 2

FC Cincinnati 2

2019-08-18 Sunday 00:30

Walkover 🔥

FC Cincinnati

New York City FC

2019-06-07 Friday 00:00

Walkover 🔥

New York City FC 2

FC Cincinnati 4

Stats

New York City FC

FC Cincinnati

Shots on goal

Shots off goal

Total shots

Blocked shots

Shots inside box

Shots outside box

Fouls

Corners

Offsides

Goalkeeper saved

555

Total passes

447

462

Passes success

359

83%

Passes %

80%

1.56

Expected goals (xG)

1.49

-1.17

Goals prevented

-1.17

Stadion

Stadion name

Yankee Stadium

Capacity

54251

Address

One East 161st Street, The Bronx
New York City

table 2026

Western Conference

Team	Pts
Vancouver Whitecaps	46
Houston Dynamo	43
FC Dallas	43
San Jose Earthquakes	41
St. Louis City	41
Los Angeles FC	40
Colorado Rapids	35
Portland Timbers	32
San Diego	30
Los Angeles Galaxy	30
Real Salt Lake	29
Minnesota United FC	29
Austin	29
Seattle Sounders	28
Sporting Kansas City	18

Eastern Conference

Team	Pts
Nashville SC	54
Inter Miami	45
New England Revolution	43
Charlotte	40
Chicago Fire	39
Orlando City SC	34
Philadelphia Union	33
New York City FC	32
FC Cincinnati	32
New York Red Bulls	30
DC United	29
Toronto FC	29
Columbus Crew	23
Atlanta United FC	23
CF Montréal	21

Complete table

Line-ups

New York City FC — Formation: 4-2-3-1

Coach: Pascal Jansen

Matthew Freese

Tayvon Gray

Thiago Martins Bueno

Raul Gustavo Pereira Bicalho

Kevin O'Toole

Kai Trewin

Aiden O'Neill

Agustin Ojeda

Maximiliano Nicol Moralez

Hannes Wolf

Nicolás Ezequiel Fernández Mercau

Tom Barlow

Ahoueke Steeve Kévin Denkey

Evander da Silva Ferreira

Kenji Mboma Dem

Samuel Mawuena Gidi

Pavel Bucha

Ender Jesús Echenique Peña

Teenage Lingani Hadebe

Gilberto Ivan Flores Melgarejo

Kyle Smith

Roman Celentano

FC Cincinnati — Formation: 3-4-1-2 Logo FC Cincinnati

Coach: Pat Noonan

New York City FC — Formation: 4-2-3-1

Coach: Pascal Jansen

FC Cincinnati — Formation: 3-4-1-2 Logo FC Cincinnati

Coach: Pat Noonan

Matthew Freese

Tayvon Gray

Thiago Martins Bueno

Raul Gustavo Pereira Bicalho

Kevin O'Toole

Kai Trewin

Aiden O'Neill

Agustin Ojeda

Maximiliano Nicol Moralez

Hannes Wolf

Nicolás Ezequiel Fernández Mercau

Tom Barlow

Ahoueke Steeve Kévin Denkey

Evander da Silva Ferreira

Kenji Mboma Dem

Samuel Mawuena Gidi

Pavel Bucha

Ender Jesús Echenique Peña

Teenage Lingani Hadebe

Gilberto Ivan Flores Melgarejo

Kyle Smith

Roman Celentano

Substitutes

Substitutes New York City FC

Name	Age	Position
Tomas Lían Romero Keubler	25	Goalkeeper
Strahinja Tanasijević	29	Defender
Nico Cavallo	24	Defender
Keaton Alexander Parks	29	Midfielder
Maximo Augusto Carrizo Ballesteros	18	Midfielder
Jonathan Shore	19	Midfielder
Talles Magno Bacelar Martins	24	Attacker
Seymour Garfield-Reid	18	Attacker

Substitutes FC Cincinnati

Name	Age	Position
Evan Louro	30	Goalkeeper
Stiven Jimenez	19	Defender
Alvas Elvis Powell	32	Defender
Brian Anunga	30	Midfielder
Ayoub Jabbari	26	Attacker
Gerardo Valenzuela	21	Attacker

Player stats

#	Name	FN rating	Min	Pos	G	A	Sh	SoT	Pas	KP	Pas+	Tkl	Blk	Int	Du	Du+	Dri	Dri+	Foul	Foul+	🟨	Off	Sav	GC	Pen+	PenSv
7	Nicolás Ezequiel Fernández Mercau	10.0	84	Attacker	2	0	2	2	46	2	36	3	-	-	16	9	5	4	2	2	0	1	-	0	0	-
9	Ahoueke Steeve Kévin Denkey	8.3	90	Attacker	2	0	2	2	14	-	12	-	-	-	11	4	4	2	-	-	0	1	-	0	0	-
26	Agustin Ojeda	7.9	84	Midfielder	1	1	3	2	33	3	24	-	-	-	6	1	2	-	-	-	0	1	-	0	0	-
11	Talles Magno Bacelar Martins (sub)	7.7	18	Attacker	1	0	1	1	3	-	2	-	-	-	3	2	2	1	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
10	Evander da Silva Ferreira ©️	7.7	90	Attacker	1	0	2	2	38	-	29	2	-	-	21	10	6	4	2	4	0	1	-	0	1	-
5	Kai Trewin	7.3	90	Midfielder	-	0	-	-	51	-	41	6	1	1	15	10	-	-	3	1	0	-	-	0	0	-
24	Tayvon Gray	7.2	89	Defender	-	0	-	-	70	1	58	4	-	-	7	7	1	1	-	2	0	-	-	0	0	-
10	Maximiliano Nicol Moralez	7.2	72	Midfielder	-	1	2	-	37	5	29	-	-	-	3	1	1	1	-	-	0	1	-	0	0	-
21	Aiden O'Neill	6.9	90	Midfielder	-	1	-	-	53	1	45	2	-	1	11	5	1	-	-	2	0	-	-	0	0	-
99	Ayoub Jabbari (sub)	6.9	18	Attacker	-	0	-	-	4	1	2	-	-	-	6	4	1	1	-	1	0	-	-	0	0	-
34	Raul Gustavo Pereira Bicalho	6.7	90	Defender	-	0	1	-	63	-	55	3	1	1	15	9	1	1	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
17	Hannes Wolf	6.7	72	Midfielder	-	0	3	2	30	2	27	2	-	1	9	5	4	2	-	1	0	-	-	0	0	-
24	Kyle Smith	6.7	90	Defender	-	0	-	-	46	1	37	5	2	2	10	6	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	0	0	-
2	Alvas Elvis Powell (sub)	6.7	22	Defender	-	0	-	-	14	-	12	2	-	1	5	3	2	1	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
66	Ender Jesús Echenique Peña	6.6	60	Midfielder	-	1	-	-	19	4	12	2	-	1	7	3	1	1	1	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
20	Pavel Bucha	6.6	90	Midfielder	-	1	1	-	50	2	43	1	-	1	6	4	1	1	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
32	Jonathan Shore (sub)	6.5	17	Midfielder	-	0	-	-	6	-	4	1	-	-	3	2	-	-	-	1	0	-	-	0	0	-
11	Samuel Mawuena Gidi	6.5	90	Midfielder	-	0	-	-	57	-	44	-	-	1	6	2	2	-	-	1	0	-	-	0	0	-
27	Brian Anunga (sub)	6.5	30	Midfielder	-	0	-	-	27	-	26	1	-	-	4	1	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	0	0	-
49	Matthew Freese	6.3	90	Goalkeeper	-	0	-	-	22	-	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	2	4	0	0
13	Thiago Martins Bueno ©️	6.3	90	Defender	-	0	-	-	65	-	61	-	1	1	2	1	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
55	Keaton Alexander Parks (sub)	6.3	18	Midfielder	-	0	1	1	12	-	10	-	-	-	3	1	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
15	Teenage Lingani Hadebe	6.3	23	Defender	-	0	-	-	9	-	8	-	-	-	2	2	1	1	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
16	Tom Barlow	6.3	83	Attacker	-	0	-	-	8	-	4	-	1	1	8	3	-	-	-	1	0	-	-	0	0	-
3	Gilberto Ivan Flores Melgarejo	6.2	60	Defender	-	0	-	-	35	-	29	1	-	-	4	2	1	-	1	-	1	-	-	0	0	-
17	Kenji Mboma Dem	6.2	90	Midfielder	-	0	1	-	40	1	32	-	-	1	5	3	3	3	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
22	Gerardo Valenzuela (sub)	6.2	30	Midfielder	-	1	2	1	23	1	20	1	-	1	9	2	1	1	3	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
19	Strahinja Tanasijević (sub)	5.9	11	Defender	-	0	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	1	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
18	Roman Celentano	5.9	90	Goalkeeper	-	0	-	-	28	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	5	4	0	0
22	Kevin O'Toole	5.2	90	Defender	-	0	1	1	57	1	49	2	-	-	8	2	1	-	1	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
30	Tomas Lían Romero Keubler (sub)	-	-	Goalkeeper	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
2	Nico Cavallo (sub)	-	-	Defender	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
29	Maximo Augusto Carrizo Ballesteros (sub)	-	-	Midfielder	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
99	Seymour Garfield-Reid (sub)	-	-	Attacker	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
13	Evan Louro (sub)	-	-	Goalkeeper	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-
37	Stiven Jimenez (sub)	-	-	Midfielder	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	0	0	-