New York City FC vs. Seattle Sounders | MLS Match Preview

NEW YORK CITY FC vs. SEATTLE SOUNDERS
YANKEE STADIUM, Bronx, New York
May 3, 2015 (Week 9, MLS Game #86)
7 pm ET (FOX Sports 1, FOX Deportes in US, TSN1 in Canada)

New York City FC will be aiming to reverse recent fortunes when they meet the Seattle Sounders for the first time as the clubs clash Sunday evening at Yankee Stadium before a FOX Sports 1 audience. NYCFC are now winless in their last six matches, dropping a 1-0 decision at the Chicago Fire in their last match. The Sounders made it back-to-back wins for the first time this year with a 1-0 win against archrivals Portland Timbers at CenturyLink Field last Sunday. Clint Dempsey has scored a goal or recorded an assist in all five league games he’s played this season, netting the game’s only goal against Portland.

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• Stefan Frei recorded his fourth shutout of the season to backstop the Sounders FC victory, tied for the league lead with Clint Irwin (Colorado), David Ousted (Vancouver) and Bobby Shuttleworth (New England).
• New York City FC saw their winless skid extended to six games – the longest thus far this season in MLS – following their 1-0 loss at the Chicago Fire on Friday evening. It was NYCFC’s second consecutive shutout at the attacking end and their fourth this season.

REFEREE: Silviu Petrescu. AR1 (bench): Daniel Belleau; AR2 (opposite): Richard Gamache; 4th: Alex Chilowicz
Petrescu MLS Career: 93 games; FC/gm: 27.5; Y/gm: 3.5; R: 11; pens: 16

SUSPENDED: NYC: Andrew Jacobson (through May 3)
WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: none
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: NYC: Kwame Watson-Siriboe
DISABLED LIST: none
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none

HEAD-TO-HEAD
First meeting.

• This is the only league meeting between the teams this season.
• Coaches' records:
  Jason Kreis vs. SEA: P12 W5 L3 D4
  Sigi Schmid vs. NYC: first game

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