The Orlando City & New England bosses Gómez and Peay are both worrying about and eagerly anticipating this vital fixture in the top regions of the Major League Soccer positions.
- Orlando City is in the best form (4-1-1) in Major League Soccer
5 - 5 - 14 with 27-45. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for New England when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. New England play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.
It's quite the trip for New England when visiting Orlando as the cities are 2000 kilometers apart.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Orlando City form and stats
8-5-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Orlando City so far this season. The Orlando City fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Exploria Stadium and will expect new points from this game. Orlando City has played eleven games in a row here without a defeat.
Orlando City are confident in defense, having played 218 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
It's back home for Orlando City, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Nashville SC away with the result 1-0. McGuire found the net in that victory. Schlegel, defender, was given a rating of 7.45/10 in that game, top of the team. Schlegel won 1 of 6 duels.
Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Montreal Impact.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Orlando matches with similar probabilities have ended with 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat (from 8 games).
Orlando City have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Exploria Stadium with 28 goals in 16 league matches. On the other hand, Orlando have conceded 17 goals.
New England form and stats
There's been little loot from New England's travels as they have only collected 15 points from 15 away games in the Major League Soccer. New England only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 6 draws. Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in ten away games in a row.
The manager Peay was unhappy after their last game, played at their home stadium Gillette Stadium. New England suffered a 1-2 loss to Columbus Crew (placed 4th). Chancalay got a match rating of 7.83 in that game, top player of the team. Chancalay scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Charlotte.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and New England playing away, we found 7 games. Results were 0 away wins, 2 draws and 5 home wins.
Observe that 12 of this side's 15 latest league rounds have ended with at least three goals.
New England find the net regularly in their away games. 17 goals from 15 away fixtures in the league. As for defending, England rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 24 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
New England have pulled off a streak of 8 consecutive games without losing (5-3-0) when facing Orlando City.New England - Orlando City 3-1 was the product when this pair of teams last did battle, some time ago this season.
Top Goalscorers
  F. Torres Pérez 13 goals |  D. McGuire 10 goals |   C. Gil de Pareja Vicent 9 goals |
Orlando City missing players
New England missing players
| Orlando City | New England | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 16 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 15 | 31 |
| 16 | 8 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| 9 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 50 | 28 | 6 | Scored | S | 3 | 17 | 52 |
| 37 | 17 | 5 | Conceded | C | 6 | 24 | 39 |
| 94% | 94% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 97% |
| 84% | 88% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 84% |
| 53% | 50% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 68% |
| 31% | 31% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 27% | 32% |
| 3% | 6% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 7% | 6% |
| 56% | 56% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 60% | 65% |
| 31% | 38% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 26% |
| 19% | 12% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 27% | 13% |
| 4.7 | 5.8 | 3.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| 4.5 | 4.1 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 6.7 | 5.4 |
| 2.1 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11.8 | 13.4 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 10.1 | 12.1 |
| 4.4 | 5.5 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4.4 |
| 36% | 32% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 34% | 38% |
| 12.1 | 9.9 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 20 | 17.1 | 14.9 |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 6.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 6.4 | 5.4 |
- Orlando City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Orlando City is in the best form (4-1-1) in Major League Soccer
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cincinnati | 32 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 54 | 37 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 26 | 17 | 65 |
| 2 | Orlando City | 32 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 50 | 37 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 20 | 13 | 57 |
| 3 | Philadelphia Union | 32 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 56 | 39 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 26 | 17 | 54 |
| 4 | Columbus Crew | 32 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 64 | 44 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 25 | 31 | 20 | 53 |
| 5 | New England | 31 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 52 | 39 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 35 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 13 | 52 |
| 6 | Atlanta United | 32 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 63 | 50 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 41 | 20 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 30 | 13 | 49 |
| 7 | Nashville SC | 31 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 36 | 29 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 45 |
| 8 | Chicago Fire | 32 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 39 | 48 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 26 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 28 | -9 | 40 |
| 9 | Montreal Impact | 32 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 31 | 49 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 38 | -18 | 38 |
| 10 | New York City | 32 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 34 | 37 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 21 | -3 | 38 |
| 11 | DC United | 33 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 43 | 49 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 29 | 23 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 26 | -6 | 37 |
| 12 | New York RB | 32 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 32 | 39 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 22 | -7 | 37 |
| 13 | Charlotte | 31 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 40 | 50 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 29 | -10 | 36 |
| 14 | Inter Miami | 31 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 39 | 50 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 23 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 32 | -11 | 33 |
| 15 | Toronto | 32 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 54 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 34 | -28 | 22 |
