May 19, 2022 – MLS NEXT Pro (MLS NEXT Pro) – Rochester New York FC News Release
How good was RNY FC last time out in MLS NEXT Pro action?
If you missed the match, or the game story (read the recap here), Rochester played its best game of the early season in a 4-1 victory over Inter Miami CF II. It was nearly a flawless contest for RNY FC, which has looked better nearly every time out on the pitch since late March.
But now, the fun begins: Rochester, with its two-game winning streak in the league, gets a chance to show over the next two months just how much it has improved since the 2022 season started.
Saturday night, the Northeast Division leaders, Philadelphia Union II, come into town for the first of two trips to Northern New York in the next seven games. The Union have a very talented squad, and have lost just once in seven games, trailing only Columbus Crew II (RNY FC’s next opponent) in the Eastern Conference standings.
This is just the first of an eight-game gauntlet for Rochester, which dates through July 16, that should start to shake out the standings in the Eastern Conference. The thing about playing the top teams, though, is that if a team stays hot and keeps winning, all of sudden, it could be right in the mix near the top of the table. Just look at what Nottingham Forest did in the EFL Championship: one point from its first seven games (0-6-1), dead last in the table, and then lost six matches from that point on and will be playing at Wembley in the Playoff Final to return to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years.
It is not how you start the season: it is how you react to that start, make adjustments, and then win games.
Rochester has done that over the last month, playing some very good games even in defeats. Now, RNY FC will get a chance to keep climbing up that table.
Of course, we think we will be there in September fighting for a playoff berth: we have believed impossible, and have started making the possible, probable.
This should be…
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