There's been seven days and nights since Columbus Crew played against New York City and the scoreline was 0-2. What happens versus Los Angeles FC?
- Columbus Crew have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- All of Los Angeles FC's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 3600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
The visiting Los Angeles FC played their last game only three days ago, a Major League Soccer match.
Columbus Crew form and stats
When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Columbus Crew have managed 3 wins, 0 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 5 games.
In their previous game, the manager Porter led his Columbus to a defeat away at New York City. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here. Attacking player Zelarayán bested all the other footballers in that match and was awarded a match rating of 7.63 out of 10. Zelarayán hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 8 of 13 times.
2-2 away at New England before that.This is expected to be a close game, with Columbus Crew perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Columbus Crew as a small favourite), we find 16 games. Columbus Crew has won 7 of these, drawn 5 and lost 4.
Columbus Crew have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 9 goals in 5 league matches. From these home matches, Columbus Crew have conceded only 4 goals.
Los Angeles FC form and stats
3-0-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Los Angeles FC in their Major League Soccer matches away.
Angeles have lots to remedy after their unexpected defeat (1-2) to Austin in their previous game, played at their own home ground. Attacker Vela got a player rating of 8.13 in the game. "Man of the match" Vela scored one goal, hit four key passes and had 26 successful passes (of 31 total).
Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Colorado Rapids's place.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Los Angeles FC in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Los Angeles FC, 2 draws and 10 defeats.
Los Angeles FC have another game that requires travelling in just four days, a US Open Cup game versus LA Galaxy. A rough itinerary for the visitors!
The travelling fans enjoy Los Angeles FC's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 5 league matches away. As opposed to that, Angeles have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the previous three meetings): Columbus Crew won one game, zero matches ended with a draw and Los Angeles FC have two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / oneTop Goalscorers
  C. Vela Garrido 5 goals |   L. Zelarayán 4 goals |  D. Etienne Jr. 3 goals |
Columbus Crew missing players
Los Angeles FC missing players
| Columbus Crew | Los Angeles FC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 15 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 6 | 9 | 24 |
| 13 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 91% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 67% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 20% | 33% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 20% | 8% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 67% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 45% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 8% |
| 5.4 | 5.6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.2 | 7.4 |
| 4.1 | 3.6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 5.2 | 3.7 |
| 2.1 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.5 | 3.8 | 2.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.1 | 16.4 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 13.4 | 17.2 |
| 3.7 | 4.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| 37% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 38% | 36% |
| 9.2 | 7.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 12.4 | 10.2 |
| 3.5 | 2.6 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 5.4 | 3.5 |
- All of Los Angeles FC's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Columbus Crew have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Columbus Crew have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Columbus Crew haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Los Angeles FC have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Los Angeles FC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Los Angeles FC haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Philadelphia Union | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 21 |
| 2 | New York City | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 20 |
| 3 | New York RB | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
| 4 | Montreal Impact | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 2 | 20 |
| 5 | Orlando City | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -1 | 20 |
| 6 | Cincinnati | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -2 | 19 |
| 7 | Atlanta United | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 15 |
| 8 | Columbus Crew | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | DC United | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 13 |
| 10 | Charlotte | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -5 | 13 |
| 11 | New England | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -2 | 12 |
| 12 | Inter Miami | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -10 | 12 |
| 13 | Chicago Fire | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -5 | 11 |
| 14 | Toronto | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -7 | 11 |
