St. Louis CITY SC (3-2-7) v. Cincinnati (8-2-3) Saturday May 18, 2024, 6:30 PM (CT) TQL Stadium, Cincinnati Apple TV+ MLS Season Pass Here is the mlssoccer.com match thread St. Louis CITY SC (3-2-7, 16 Points, 1.33 PPG, 18 GF, 17 GA, Net +1) 2024 Form: DWDDDLDWDDWL Home: 3-1-3, 12 Points, 1.71 PPG, 9 GF, 6 GA, Net +3, Form: DWDDWWL Away: 0-1-4, 4 points, 0.80 PPG, 9 GF, 11 GA, Net -2, Form: DDLDD 2024 Results Match 01 - CITY 1-1 RSL Match 02 – CITY 2-0 NYCFC Match 03 – Austin 2-2 CITY Match 04 - LA Gals 3-3 CITY Match 05 – CITY 2-2 DC United Match 06 – RSL 3-1 CITY Match 07 – CITY 0-0 FCD Match 08 – CITY 1-0 Austin Match 09 – pig snort kansas 3-3 CITY Match 10 – Houston 0-0 CITY Match 11 – CITY 3-1 Chicago Match 12 – CITY 0-2 LAFC FC Cincinnati (8-2-3, 27 Points, 2.08 PPG, 16 GF, 10 GA, net +6) 2024 Form: DWDWWDLLWWWWW Home: 3-1-2, 11 Points, 1.83 PPG, 5 GF, 3 GA, net +2, Form: DDWLWW Away: 5-1-1, 16 Points, 2.29 PPG, 11 GF, 7 GA, net +4, Form WWDLWWW 2024 Results Match 01 – Cincinnati 0-0 Toronto Match 02 – Chicago 1-2 Cincinnati Match 03 – Cincinnati 0-0 DC United Match 04 – New England 1-2 Cincinnati Match 05 – Cincinnati 1-0 NYCFC Match 06 – Charlotte 1-1 Cincinnati Match 07 – Cincinnati 1-2 RBNY Match 08 – Montreal 2-1 Cincinnati Match 09 – Atlanta 1-2 Cincinnati Match 10 – Cincinnati 2-1 Colorado Match 11 – Orlando 0-1 Cincinnati Match 12 – Columbus 1-2 Cincinnati Match 13 – Cincinnati 1-0 Atlanta All time head-to-head, MLS regular season matches: CITY 1-0-0, 5 GF, 1 GA, net +4 Home versus Cincinnati: CITY 1-0-0 (5 GF, 1 GA, net +4) Away versus Cincinnati: CITY 0-0-0, 0 GF, 0 GA, net 0 (this is the first away match) In the 2023 head-to-head match, CITY won 5-1 at CITYPARK. Like LAFC, Cincinnati is two very different teams in 2024, only in reverse. On their home pitch, they are 3-1-2 in low-scoring matches, 5 goals for, 3 conceded, +1 net. On the road, they are the best team in the MLS, 5-1-1, 11 goals for, 7 conceded, +4 net. In all matches, Cincinnati has yet to score or concede more than 2 goals. So far, in 2024, both CITY and Cincinnati are 2-0-1 with identical results against three common opponents. CITY and Cincinnati played Chicago (CITY won 3-1 at home and Cincinnati won 2-1 on the road), DC United (CITY drew 2-2 and Cincinnati drew nil-nil, both at home), and NYCFC (CITY won 2-0 and Cincinnati won 1-0, both at home). Cincinnati is on an MLS-best five-match winning streak. CITY desperately needs a result in this match after Wednesday’s bitter match. Discuss.
PRO's assignments: Center Ref Timothy Ford, ARs Eric Weisbrod and Chantal Boudreau, Fourth Official Ismir Pekmic, VAR Fotis Bazakos, and AVAR Josef Batko.
Player availability and disciplinary reports. Totland worked his way off the YC caution list. Lowen is still listed as questionable, but very well could play. Markanich is penned. St. Louis CITY SC OUT: none Questionable: Eduard Lowen, Josh Yaro Suspended: Anthony Markanich (mustard-and-ketchup in last match) YC Caution (one YC from being penned): Chris Durkin, Tim Parker FC Cincinnati OUT: Aaron Boupendza, Alvas Powell, DeAndre Yedlin Questionable: Corey Baird Suspended: none YC Caution (one YC from being penned): Luciano Acosta, Pavel Bucha, Obinna Nwobodo
Starting XIs St. Louis CITY SC Burki-Watts-Hiebert-Nilsson-Dyhr-Blom-Kijima-Jackson-Pompeu-Adeniran-Klauss Bench: Lundt-Alm-Durkin-Lowen-Nerwinski-Ostrak-Parker-Thorisson-Vassilev FC Cincinnati Celentano-Murphy-Miazga-Hagglund-Orellano-Halsey-Bucha-Nwobodo-Acosta-Valenzuela-Kubo Bench: Kann-Robinson-Keller-Santos-Kelsy-Pinto-Asad-Foster-Jiminez
FC Cincy players are wearing white armbands during warmups and during the match vs. STL tonight. The armbands say "IL" in honor of Ilona Löwen, wife of Eduard Löwen, whose wife is battling brain cancer.— Pat Brennan (@PBrennanENQ) May 18, 2024 That's class, and I commend FC Cincinnati for this.