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Across the street from Citi Field, within a few years' time, there will be a brand new soccer-specific stadium adjacent to the home of baseball's New York Mets. It'll be a state of the art facility with But that's a while from now. For tonight, they played this fixture in Queens for the first time - where grass is laid out on the Mets' dirt infields and corners are taken on turf put down on the warning track in the outfield. Yes, this is the character of the Hudson River Derby. Soon, New York City FC will be hosting their hated cross-river rivals - the New York Red Bulls - in a stadium of their own. But for years, they've gone to the city's two baseball parks to host their games.

OLIVER SALT AT RED BULL ARENA: Emil Forsberg, who will embark on a culture shift both on and off the field this year, was told to keep an open mind when moving from Europe to America. Since watching it closely over the years, the former RB Leipzig star, who made up close to 250 appearances in Germany's Bundesliga over the past decade, had a different view of Major League Soccer. Nevertheless, he arrived in New York under tight orders not to fall into the trap of underestimating the standard. 'I talked to some guys who played here before, and everybody told me that the workmanship was not surprising,' Forsberg said a few days after his MLS debut in Nashville.