Sandro Schwarz refused to be too downbeat in regards to the New York Purple Bulls’ marketing campaign up to now, however is concentrating on a turnaround towards CF Montreal.
The Purple Bulls, runners-up to the LA Galaxy in MLS Cup final yr, have collected 12 factors from their opening 9 video games this season.
They sit ninth within the Japanese Convention, on the again of a 2-1 residence defeat to D.C. United final day out.
And whereas Schwarz was left bitterly disillusioned by the character of that loss, he feels the Purple Bulls have a terrific probability to get again to successful methods towards Montreal, who’re rooted to the underside of the East with simply three factors.
He stated: “We wish to win this recreation, we wish to carry our greatest, give our greatest on the sector, that is our principal goal and focus for certain.
“The times after the D.C. United recreation had been robust – we’ve talked loads this week with the gamers. However I’m satisfied within the group that we’ve the qualities.
“We had been very pissed off in fact, however now we’ve the subsequent alternative. That’s our life. That’s soccer.
“It’s nice to have the possibility each week to do one thing higher, which is what we’ve to do.
“We now have 12 factors after 9 video games, that’s okay. For certain, we wish to have extra factors. We wish to be higher in some moments. This can be a probability to try this.”
Schwarz additionally put the strain on his crew to enhance defensively.
“It has not been as much as commonplace,” stated the Purple Bulls boss, whose aspect have shipped 10 MLS objectives in 2025.
“For me it isn’t a query in regards to the construction. Now we’ve to make a transparent choice on who’s taking part in on Saturday.”
Nonetheless cookin’. Nonetheless scorin’. Nonetheless Choupo.
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PLAYERS TO WATCH
New York Purple Bulls – Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting
Choupo-Moting scored the Purple Bulls’ lone aim of their defeat to D.C. United final week.
The previous Bayern Munich ahead has scored 4 occasions in his final six matches, together with scoring in every of his final two matches at Sports activities Illustrated Stadium.
CF Montreal – Prince Owusu
Montreal have scored solely 4 MLS objectives this season, and Owusu has netted two of these.
The Canadian membership haven’t discovered the web since Owusu’s aim towards the Columbus Crew on April 6. Montreal have solely scored two objectives throughout their final eight league video games.
MATCH PREDICTION: NEW YORK RED BULLS WIN
Montreal are the primary crew in MLS historical past to not maintain a lead at any level of their first 9 matches of a season.
The final crew to go 10 or extra consecutive matches with out holding a lead at any level in a season was Chivas USA (11 straight) in 2014.
Montreal have three factors by way of 9 matches this season, tied for the third fewest after 9 matches of a season in MLS historical past.
The Purple Bulls’ five-match residence unbeaten run ended final week. New York have misplaced consecutive residence matches in all competitions simply as soon as for the reason that begin of the 2023 season, shedding their final two residence matches of the 2024 common season.
The 14 conferences between the Purple Bulls and Montreal since July 2017 have been break up, with either side successful six occasions and drawing two. The 2 attracts got here within the final two conferences between the perimeters, each within the 2024 season.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
New York Purple Bulls – 57%
Montreal – 20.7%
Draw – 22.3%
