New York City FC brought the curtain down on the first stage of Preseason 2018 with a 5-2 win over Jacksonville University on Wednesday night.
Here’s Five Things we learned from the scrimmage…
Important Minutes
At this early stage of preseason, results are always a fair way down the priorities list for Patrick Vieira but he’ll have been encouraged by what he saw from his charges in this first run-out.
With a whole host of new faces and different XIs fielded in each half, this was very much a case of getting minutes into legs, building chemistry and putting into practice routines enacted on the training field over the last nine days.