The New York Red Bulls can see the finish line to their 2016 regular season. It will be down in Chester, Pennsylvania, where they will wrap up an up-and-down league campaign (well, it was more down-then-up) against the Philadelphia Union.
The 1-6 start to the season threatened to define RBNY's 2016. In point of fact, it has but not in the way that seemed likely when it was happening. This club has twice fallen down and never got back up in MLS: in 1999 as the MetroStars, when they started with a 3-1 record but spiraled for the rest of the season; in 2009, the year after going to the MLS Cup Final.