Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but the New York Red Bulls are struggling to score against teams defending deep. After opening the season with cathartic away wins in San Jose and Toronto in which the team appeared to emphatically shed the goalscoring troubles that came on late last season, the Red Bulls have now scored just twice in its first four home matches of 2022.
This past Saturday’s scoreless draw against FC Dallas saw perhaps the most stark exhibition of the purgatory Gerhard Struber’s team finds themselves in, putting together a dominant performance against a quality team but not being rewarded with success.