{"id":241258,"date":"2026-05-23T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241258\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:24:08","slug":"preview-fc-cincinnati-2-travel-to-face-new-york-city-fc-ii-in-matchweek-12-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241258\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | FC Cincinnati 2 travel to face New York City FC II in Matchweek 12 action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FC Cincinnati 2 head to Queens, New York for a Matchweek 12 showdown against New York City FC II this Saturday, May 23 at Belson Stadium. Looking to rebound from two consecutive losses, the Orange and Blue can pick up a second straight win against the Pigeons in the second meeting of a three match regular season series.<br \/>The match will be streamed live on <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.onefootball.com\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Football<\/a> platforms and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlsnextpro.com\/news\/live-streams-watch-nycfc-ii-vs-fc-cincinnati-2-mw-12-may-23rd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLSNEXTPro.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FC CINCINNATI 2 at NEW YORK CITY FC II \u2013 SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2026- 7 P.M. ET \u2013 BELSON STADIUM<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with all things FC Cincinnati 2 @FCCincinnati 2 on X, Instagram, and Facebook\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FC Cincinnati 2\/Matchup Notes\u00a0<br \/>The matchup \u2013 Saturday marks the second meeting of the season between FC Cincinnati 2 and New York City FC II. In the previous meeting, the Orange and Blue earned a 1-0 home victory. Cheikhou Niang scored in his MLS NEXT Pro debut while Fabian Mrozek blanked New York on April 13 for FCC 2\u2019s first clean sheet, and first win, of the year.<\/p>\n<p>A first for F\u00e9lix \u2013 Defender F\u00e9lix Samson netted his first career MLS NEXT Pro goal against Chattanooga FC, pouncing on a loose ball in front of goal and cashing in on the visitors\u2019 failed attempts at clearing the danger. Samson has started six games this season and has gone the full-90 in four of his last five appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back from injury \u2013 Forward Deiver Mosquera and the aforementioned Niang returned from injury this past Sunday against Chattanooga FC. Mosquera played 12 minutes off the bench after last seeing match action on April 13 against this weekend\u2019s opponents in NYCFC II. Niang ran 21 minutes in a second half substitute appearance since last appearing April 19 against Red Bull New York II.<\/p>\n<p>Scouting New York City FC II<br \/>Record: 3-4-2<br \/>Standings: 12th, Eastern Conference\u00a0<br \/>Last Three: 3-2 win at Red Bull New York II | 3-2 loss at New England Revolution II | 2-1 win vs. Chicago Fire FC II\u00a0<br \/>Head Coach: Matt Pilkington\u00a0<br \/>Leading Scorer: 2 \u2013 Elhadj Samb, and Sebastiano Musu<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a 3-2 win over rival Red Bull New York II, New York City FC II enter the matchweek looking to put together back-to-back wins for the first time this season. A slow start to the year has seen the Pigeons playing catchup in recent weeks, but games in hand over some of the Eastern Conference\u2019s top sides has opened the door for New York to make a midseason run.<\/p>\n<p>However, New York will need contributions in attack as the Pigeons have scored just 11 goals this season, tied for the third fewest across MLS NEXT Pro. That starts with Sebastiano Musu and Elhadj Samb, New York\u2019s leading goal scorers.<\/p>\n<p>Musu, an Oristano, Italy native, has played in eight games, starting seven with two goals and one assist. Samb, a first team forward, was on the scoresheet for New York in their most recent win and has two goals in just 148 minutes played this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Cincinnati 2 head to Queens, New York for a Matchweek 12 showdown against New York City FC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77501,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-241258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-fc-cincinnati-2","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}