Without trying to detract from New York City FC’s cathartic 4-0 win on ‘David Villa Day’, a dismantling of a Colorado Rapids side that could generously be described as hapless doesn’t mean that everything is all rosy for the Boys in Blue. Sure, it was nice to exercise any demons that are still left over from the New York Red Bulls atrocity, but NYCFC have a gauntlet of intense match-ups down the pike.
Still, it’s hard to find fault with that win on Saturday. Manager (for now) Patrick Vieira switched to a 3-man backline with Alex Ring as a ball-playing, sweeper center back a la David Luiz.