Las Vegas Lights vs LA Galaxy II full preview

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sat 09.October
Match begins: 02:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cashman Field (12500 seats)

USL Championship: Las Vegas Lights are 14 points after LA Galaxy II, but intend to go full throttle. Game on!

Insights:
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals (66) in USL Championship
  • LA Galaxy II have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Las Vegas Lights form and stats

Las Vegas Lights's struggle is real here at Cashman Field with only 11 points collected from 13 USL Championship games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-2-8. All in all it has been a very rough period for Lights who hasn’t won a league-game in their last twelve attempts. Their previous win was against Orange County, 72 days ago.

Las Vegas Lights manager S. Cherundolo and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Oakland Roots (placed 6th) in the USL Championship.

Preceding that match was the home game against San Diego Loyal that was lost 2-4.

Las Vegas Lights are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 18 goals in 13 games. Las Vegas Lights have conceded 25 from these games.

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LA Galaxy II form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their USL Championship travels is 6 wins, 0 draws and 6 defeats. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Galaxy, as they have won on their previous two travels.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a USL Championship home defeat versus San Diego Loyal with 0-3 on the scoreboard.

That result followed a home victory 3-0 versus Phoenix Rising.

LA Galaxy II has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 19 goals from 12 games. LA Galaxy II have conceded 25 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

These two sides faced each other previously this campaign: Lights - LA Galaxy II 2-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Las Vegas Lights one win, three draws and LA Galaxy II six victories. As for goals, nine matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

LA Galaxy IIP. Judd
P. Judd
12 goals
LA Galaxy IIJ. Hernandez
J. Hernandez
11 goals
LightsC. Jennings
C. Jennings
8 goals

Las Vegas Lights missing players

LA Galaxy II missing players

Las Vegas Lights LA Galaxy II
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
27 13 4 Played P 3 12 26
5 3 1 Won W 1 6 9
3 2 0 Drew D 0 0 5
19 8 3 Lost L 2 6 12
35 18 6 Scored S 2 19 45
66 25 9 Conceded C 4 25 49
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
89% 85% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 92% 92%
81% 69% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 67% 62%
56% 54% 75% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 42% 38%
30% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 42% 38%
78% 77% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 54%
7% 15% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 23%
15% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 25% 23%
 
4 5 3 Corners for (avg) C F 2.7 4.9 4.5
5.7 4.7 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 3.7 4.6
1.8 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 2.4 2.5
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
7.8 8.8 8.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7.3 10.7 11.5
3.4 3.2 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 4.3 5.3
39% 45% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 37% 33%
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • LA Galaxy II have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • LA Galaxy II haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest clean sheets (2) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest points (11) at home in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals (25) at home in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals (66) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals in the second half (42) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most dropped points from leading position (28) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most matches over the total-line (19) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the the worst goal difference (-31) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the the worst goal difference (-7) at home in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Las Vegas Lights 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 Phoenix Rising 27 18 5 4 59 29 13 10 3 0 38 10 14 8 2 4 21 19 30 59
2 San Diego Loyal 27 13 4 10 44 35 13 8 1 4 22 14 14 5 3 6 22 21 9 43
3 Orange County 26 10 7 9 37 32 13 4 4 5 17 19 13 6 3 4 20 13 5 37
4 LA Galaxy II 26 9 5 12 45 49 14 3 5 6 26 24 12 6 0 6 19 25 -4 32
5 Sacramento Republic 26 8 8 10 31 35 13 4 2 7 17 21 13 4 6 3 14 14 -4 32
6 Oakland Roots 26 8 7 11 29 37 13 5 4 4 16 14 13 3 3 7 13 23 -8 31
7 Seattle Sounders II 25 8 6 11 29 35 12 6 3 3 17 12 13 2 3 8 12 23 -6 30
8 Las Vegas Lights 27 5 3 19 35 66 13 3 2 8 18 25 14 2 1 11 17 41 -31 18

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.