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2018 RECORD: 15-11-8
2018 RECORD: 13-8-13
#NYvSPR MATCH: DATE: KICKOFF: LOCATION: REFEREE: ARS: 4TH: WATCH:
Swope Park Rangers at NY Red Bulls II Saturday, March 9, 2019 12:00 PM CT MSU Soccer Park (Montclair, NJ) JC Griggs Tom Felice & Amilcar Sicaju Luis Arroyo ESPN+
MATCH PREVIEW Two perennial USL Cup contenders square off in Week 1 of the 2019 USL Championship campaign as the Swope Park Rangers visit New York Red Bulls II on Saturday at MSU Soccer Park in Montclair, New Jersey. Led by second-year head coach Paulo Nagamura, the Rangers have advanced to the postseason in each of their first three years of existence, including appearances in the 2016 and 2017 USL Cup Finals. On the opposite sideline, head coach John Wolyniec has steered Red Bulls II to four straight playoff trips as well as the 2016 USL Cup title, secured with a 5-1 win over SPR in the lone meeting between the clubs to date. The 2019 season marks SPR’s first as a member of the USL Championship’s Eastern Conference. Nagamura’s men will look to go further than last year’s conference semifinal stage where they lost to Phoenix Rising FC, while Red Bulls II will aim to build off a 2018 campaign that ended in a conference final loss to eventual league champion Louisville City FC.
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OPPONENT
TIME (CT)
RESULT
at New York Red Bulls II 12:00 PITTSBURGH RIVERHOUNDS FC 4:00 BETHLEHEM STEEL FC 4:00 INDY ELEVEN 7:00 at Birmingham Legion FC 4:00 at Saint Louis FC 7:30 LOUISVILLE CITY FC 7:00 at Nashville SC 7:00 ATLANTA UNITED 2 4:00 MEMPHIS 901 FC 7:00 at Tampa Bay Rowdies 6:30 LOUDOUN UNITED FC 7:00 CHARLOTTE INDEPENDENCE 4:00 at North Carolina FC 6:00 at Charleston Battery 6:30 SAINT LOUIS FC 4:00 TAMPA BAY ROWDIES 4:00 HARTFORD ATHLETIC 7:00 at Ottawa Fury FC 6:00 CHARLESTON BATTERY 7:00 NASHVILLE SC 7:00 at Pittsburgh Riverhounds FC 6:00 at Atlanta United 2 6:30 NEW YORK RED BULLS II 7:00 at Bethlehem Steel FC 5:00 at Memphis 901 FC 7:00 NORTH CAROLINA FC 4:00 at Charlotte Independence 6:00 at Loudoun United FC 6:30 BIRMINGHAM LEGION FC 7:00 at Hartford Athletic 6:00 OTTAWA FURY FC 7:00 at Louisville City FC 6:00 at Indy Eleven 6:00
INJURY REPORT OUT: Camilo Benitez (left hip)
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