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Red Bulls defy doubters and creep on the come-up with late season recovery

While even the early parts of the season were tinted with a tacit knowledge that Gerhard Struber’s first full season in New York was the beginning of a re-boot, few expected missing out on the playoffs for the first time since the Juan Carlos Osorio years. Such a finish would have been a clear backwards step for the club, one that would have damaged Struber’s credibility significantly. But as the 44-year-old Austrian put it in a uniquely triumphant press conference, “we did it.”

The New York Red Bulls have qualified for postseason action for the twelfth straight year.