It sucks that, after such a great performance against D.C. United over the weekend, I’m right back to being the negative Nancy when it comes to analyzing New York City FC. This predicament is made even worse when taking into account the Blues have won two straight games.
But, I gotta call it like I see it. And three points notwithstanding, NYCFC’s narrow 1-0 win over the Chicago Fire barely, if at all, passed the eye test.
The game started off well enough. After a bit of back-and-forth in the opening minutes, NYCFC leaped ahead in the 9th minute with a beautiful counter-attack goal, assisted by Héber and tapped in by Taty Castellanos.