The New York Red Bulls defense has been a mess all season. In giving up 20 goals, tied for second-worst in MLS, RBNY sport a league worst -7 goal differential. Limping into tonight's matchup with the Chicago Fire, New York sports a 3-7-1 record, good enough for 10 points and a spot on the outside looking in on the Eastern Conference playoff picture.
Of all the issues that have sprung for Jesse Marsch’s team, the biggest one has been the calamity of injuries to New York’s central defenders.
At one point or another, each of the Red Bulls’ first-four choices at center back; Damien Perrinelle, Ronald Zubar, Gideon Baah and now Karl Quimette, have been forced to miss time due to injury.