{"id":383737,"date":"2026-10-27T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/383737\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:02:09","slug":"new-york-city-fc-hosts-atlanta-united-in-eastern-conference-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/383737\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City FC hosts Atlanta United in Eastern Conference play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta United FC<\/a> (8-17-6, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York City FC<\/a> (8-12-11, 11th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

, ; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: NYCFC -138, Atlanta United FC +314, Draw +296; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: New York City FC and Atlanta United square off in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n

NYCFC is 6-10-7 in Eastern Conference games. NYCFC is 20-0-1 when it scores three or more goals.<\/p>\n

United is 5-12-6 against Eastern Conference opponents. United has a 39-6-9 record in games it scores a pair of goals.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season. The last meeting ended tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nicolas Ezequiel Fernandez Mercau<\/a> has 15 goals and four assists for NYCFC. Luighi<\/a> has two goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Miguel Almiron<\/a> has six goals and six assists for United. Breel Embolo<\/a> has scored three goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: NYCFC: 10-7-13, averaging 3.0 goals, 12.3 shots on goal and 16.2 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

United: 12-9-9, averaging 4.2 goals, 10.2 shots on goal and 16.5 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: NYCFC: Arnau Farnos<\/a> (injured), Drew Baiera<\/a> (injured), Maxi Moralez<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

United: Daniel Chica<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta United FC (8-17-6, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York City FC (8-12-11, 11th in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83093,8598,140225,140226,123121,126538,29959,140224,6583,9,24,55,54,56,6584],"class_list":["post-383737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arnau-farnos","tag-atlanta","tag-breel-embolo","tag-daniel-chica","tag-drew-baiera","tag-luighi","tag-maxi-moralez","tag-miguel-almiron","tag-mls","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nycfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383737","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=383737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}