New York City FC and Atlas go head-to-head on Wednesday within the annual Campeones Cup.
The competitors pits the MLS Cup Playoffs champion in opposition to the winner of Liga MX’s Campeon de Campeones and has been held thrice to this point since 2018.
MLS has two wins to this point via Atlanta United (2019) and the Columbus Crew (2021), whereas Liga MX’s sole victory got here thanks to Tigres in 2018.
NYCFC enter the match in horrendous home type, successful simply one in all their final 10 MLS matches and taking solely 5 factors throughout that run. Atlas, in the meantime, aren’t any higher off, selecting up simply two wins and 10 factors from their opening 15 matches of the Apertura marketing campaign.
With either side struggling a lot, this match is about as unpredictable because it will get when it comes to an MLS vs Liga MX conflict, so you are going to need to discover out how one can watch reside…
This is the primary aggressive assembly between these two groups.
NYCFC
Anton Tinnerholm and Alfredo Morales each miss out via damage, whereas the MLS Cup champions can have to go in quest of one other trophy with out Golden Boot holder Taty Castellanos, who departed for La Liga facet Girona in January.
Atlas
Aldo Paul Rocha is the one confirmed absence for Atlas due to a hamstring damage.
Both groups are in equally horrible type, with confidence about as little as it may get.
However, there is a trophy on the road right here and there isn’t any higher method of overcoming a nasty run than by successful some silverware.
NYCFC have barely extra firepower and extra to play for in that they nonetheless have one other MLS Cup Playoffs marketing campaign to put together for.
The high quality from final season continues to be there and with residence benefit, the Cityzens ought to ship one other Campeones Cup victory for Major League Soccer.
Prediction: NYCFC 2-1 Atlas
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