New York stood tall during the month of May.
Both of the city’s clubs captured the attention of the entire league at different points over the last month, with NYCFC surging to the top of the Eastern Conference before the Red Bulls thrashed the second-year club 7-0 at Yankee Stadium on May 21.
Several players from both sides of the Hudson River rivalry stood out this month, and three – the Red Bulls’ Bradley Wright-Phillips and Sacha Kljestan and NYCFC’s David Villa – are represented among the five nominees for Etihad Airways MLS Player of the Month.