Energy drinks can pick you up and they usually do, but a crash always follows. New York started 1-6-0 before their Red Bull kicked in and oh my did it kick. Just three points in seven matches but then 16 points in the next seven going 5-1-1 in that stretch. Nothing changed in formations but everything clicked.
In the first seven matches, Bradley Wright-Phillips had zero goals. In the next seven, eight goals and one assist. Safe to say, how BWP goes, the Red Bulls go. Five of those are from open play with three from set pieces; headers, left and right foot, he’s scored pretty much every way possible.