While most MLS teams are just kicking off their slate of competitive fixtures for the year this weekend, New York City’s Football Club has been putting in that work.
After a long and arduous preseason, the Boys in Blue got right to work, dispatching A.D. San Carlos in the Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League Round of 16 by an aggregate score of 6-3 across the two legs.
New Head Coach Ronny Deila was impressed to see his squad, which is still working through preseason fitness levels, improve defensively in the second leg, registering a clean sheet against a team all-out attacking for 90 minutes with their tournament lives at stake.