{"id":356498,"date":"2026-09-25T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356498\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:24:09","slug":"atlanta-united-brings-shutout-streak-into-matchup-against-new-york-city-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356498\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta United brings shutout streak into matchup against New York City FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/new-york-city-fc-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City FC<\/a> (8-10-8, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/atlanta-united-fc-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta United FC<\/a> (7-14-5, 12th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Atlanta; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LINE: Atlanta United FC +117, NYCFC +199, Draw +257; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta United comes into a matchup against New York City FC after putting together two straight shutout wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">United is 4-9-5 in Eastern Conference play. United is 6-0-0 when it records at least three goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">NYCFC is 6-8-5 against Eastern Conference opponents. NYCFC ranks second in the Eastern Conference giving up 34 goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The matchup Saturday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/aleksei-miranchuk-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksey Miranchuk<\/a> has six goals and five assists for United. Miguel Angel Almiron Rejala has three goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/nicolas-ezequiel-fernandez-mercau-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Ezequiel Fernandez Mercau<\/a> has scored 15 goals and added three assists for NYCFC. Axel Ojeda has one goal and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: United: 15-9-6, averaging 4.2 goals, 9.6 shots on goal and 14.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">NYCFC: 10-6-14, averaging 3.6 goals, 13.2 shots on goal and 13.5 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: United: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">NYCFC: Arnau Farnos (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/drew-baiera-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Baiera<\/a> (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/talles-magno-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talles Magno<\/a> (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/keaton-parks-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keaton Parks<\/a> (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/kai-trewin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Trewin<\/a> (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/maximiliano-moralez-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxi Moralez<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City FC (8-10-8, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Atlanta United FC (7-14-5, 12th in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132817,8598,123121,51825,64759,29959,6583,9,11,10,6584,54952],"class_list":["post-356498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-aleksey-miranchuk","tag-atlanta","tag-drew-baiera","tag-kai-trewin","tag-keaton-parks","tag-maxi-moralez","tag-mls","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nycfc","tag-talles-magno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356498","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=356498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}