Delightful dogfight as daring El Paso Locomotive duel with determined San Antonio

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Thu 13.Jul
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: Southwest University Park (7500 seats)

What a fixture, with El Paso Locomotive placed 1st and San Antonio at 3rd. Here's a full preview!

Insights:
  • El Paso Locomotive have the most points from losing position (9) in USL Championship
  • San Antonio have the most scored goals (27) in USL Championship

The hosts El Paso Locomotive saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the USL Championship. That game was an away game at Monterey Bay, so at least El Paso Locomotive are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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El Paso Locomotive form and stats

4-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the USL Championship numbers at home for El Paso Locomotive so far this season.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 207 minutes without scoring a league goal. Kostyshyn was the last player to find the net.

Locomotive drew their last game, 0-0 away at Monterey Bay (placed 4th).

Preceding that match was the home game against New Mexico United that was lost 0-1.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how El Paso Locomotive have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 3 and lost 2.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Rio Grande Valley are coming to town in three days.

El Paso Locomotive has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches.

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San Antonio form and stats

As the visiting team matches, San Antonio, who have the most scored goals (27) in USL Championship, have produced an overall stat of 3-2-2 so far.

Two trips in a row for Antonio, whose manager Marcina could celebrate last time after the win against Memphis 901. As mentioned above, San Antonio was the only team on the pitch versus Memphis 901 in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. It's hard not to mention Oluwaseyi's lethal finishing against Memphis 901. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.

Before that, San Antonio secured a home win against Birmingham Legion with the score 3-1.

San Antonio are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 5 wins, 1 draw and 6 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.

Take note that 9 of this club's 10 most recent league rounds have ended with three or more goals.

San Antonio have the goal stats of 14-7 (for/against) from 7 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

San Antonio have managed a sequence of 5 consecutive games without defeat (3-2-0) when playing Locomotive.

El Paso Locomotive and San Antonio have played each other already this season: San Antonio - El Paso Locomotive 2-2.

Top Goalscorers

El Paso LocomotiveL. Solignac
L. Solignac
8 goals
El Paso LocomotiveD. Kostyshyn
D. Kostyshyn
4 goals

El Paso Locomotive missing players

San Antonio missing players

El Paso Locomotive San Antonio
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 9 1 Played P 2 9 18
9 4 0 Won W 1 4 8
4 1 0 Drew D 0 2 7
4 4 1 Lost L 1 3 3
24 9 0 Scored S 3 19 35
17 9 1 Conceded C 4 10 20
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
65% 56% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 78%
53% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 61%
24% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 44% 44%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 11%
53% 44% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 56% 67%
35% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 22%
18% 22% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 17%
 
4.9 6.1 6 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.6 4.8
4.2 3.8 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 4.3 4.8
2.7 2.6 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 2 2 3
 
14.1 15.1 12 Shots (avg) S ( 10 13.2 13.4
4.6 4.6 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.8 4.9
31% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 44% 40%
 
11.2 11.4 10 Shots against (avg) S A 7.5 9.6 10.3
4.1 4.8 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3.7 3.9
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • El Paso Locomotive have the most points from losing position (9) in USL Championship
  • El Paso Locomotive have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • El Paso Locomotive haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • San Antonio have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • San Antonio have scored at least twice as many goals away as El Paso Locomotive have scored home.
  • San Antonio have the most scored goals (27) in USL Championship
  • San Antonio have the most scored goals in the first half (19) in USL Championship
  • San Antonio haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 El Paso Locomotive 15 9 3 3 24 16 8 4 1 3 9 8 7 5 2 0 15 8 8 30
2 Sacramento Republic 15 8 5 2 26 9 8 6 1 1 18 4 7 2 4 1 8 5 17 29
3 San Antonio 15 6 7 2 27 16 8 3 5 0 13 9 7 3 2 2 14 7 11 25
4 Monterey Bay 15 6 5 4 25 19 8 3 3 2 16 11 7 3 2 2 9 8 6 23
5 San Diego Loyal 15 6 5 4 24 21 8 4 2 2 13 9 7 2 3 2 11 12 3 23
6 Oakland Roots 14 6 4 4 20 14 6 3 2 1 7 2 8 3 2 3 13 12 6 22
7 Colorado Springs 16 7 1 8 19 19 7 4 1 2 12 6 9 3 0 6 7 13 0 22
8 Phoenix Rising 15 5 6 4 21 20 7 2 4 1 13 10 8 3 2 3 8 10 1 21
9 Orange County 16 4 4 8 15 23 9 3 2 4 10 11 7 1 2 4 5 12 -8 16
10 Rio Grande Valley 15 3 7 5 15 24 9 1 5 3 9 16 6 2 2 2 6 8 -9 16
11 New Mexico United 14 4 3 7 21 24 6 2 2 2 9 9 8 2 1 5 12 15 -3 15
12 Las Vegas Lights 14 1 6 7 13 24 4 0 1 3 3 6 10 1 5 4 10 18 -11 9

Read more about USL Championship

The USL Championship, formerly known as United Soccer League (USL) is the second level of league football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. The USL Championship has 36 teams divided into two conference, Eastern and Western. Nearly half the teams are reserve teams/affiliates of the biggest US clubs.