Can Las Vegas Lights beat Phoenix Rising in Cashman Field clash?

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sat 16.October
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cashman Field (12500 seats)

Las Vegas Lights will hope that their home comfort is enough to get a good result from this demanding meeting, against spirited Phoenix Rising.

Insights:
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals (67) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the most scored goals (60) in USL Championship

It's no vacation for neither Lights nor Phoenix Rising as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Las Vegas Lights form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the USL Championship this season. Las Vegas Lights have only managed 3 wins, 2 draws and 9 losses from their games here at Cashman Field. Lights are slowly digging their own grave here at Cashman Field with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Orange County match.

It's back home for Las Vegas Lights, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Seattle Sounders II away with the result 1-0.

Ahead of that match, Las Vegas Lights lost 0-1 at home to LA Galaxy II.

Lights has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Lights defense is not exactly impregnable. 26 goals conceded from 14 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Phoenix Rising form and stats

Playing away, Phoenix Rising, who have the most scored goals (60) in USL Championship, have won 8 games, drawn 2 and suffered 5 defeats in the USL Championship this season.

Two away games in a row for Phoenix, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Orange County in the USL Championship.

That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Oakland Roots.

Phoenix Rising are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 21 away goals from 15 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Phoenix have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

This was the result when the contenders faced each other previously this campaign; Phoenix Rising - Lights 4-1. Head to head totals (for the former ten meetings): Lights won one game, two matches ended in a draw and Phoenix Rising managed seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three

Top Goalscorers

Phoenix RisingS. Moar
S. Moar
15 goals
LightsC. Jennings
C. Jennings
8 goals
Phoenix RisingS. Asante Wiafe
S. Asante Wiafe
8 goals

Las Vegas Lights missing players

Phoenix Rising missing players

Las Vegas Lights Phoenix Rising
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 2 Played P 4 15 29
6 3 0 Won W 4 8 19
3 2 0 Drew D 0 2 5
20 9 2 Lost L 0 5 5
36 18 3 Scored S 8 21 60
67 26 6 Conceded C 3 20 30
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
83% 79% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 67% 76%
76% 64% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 60% 69%
52% 50% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 27% 38%
28% 14% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 21%
72% 71% 100% BTTS BTTS 75% 60% 59%
10% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 27% 34%
17% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 13% 10%
 
3.8 4.8 8 Corners for (avg) C F 4 6.6 7.4
5.6 4.4 7 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4 4.1
1.9 1.6 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.6 2.4
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
8.1 9.1 2 Shots (avg) S ( 16.3 12.4 14.9
3.5 3.3 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.3 4.6 6.1
36% 40% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 32% 30% 34%
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest clean sheets (3) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest matches under the total-line (6) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest points (11) at home in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals (26) at home in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals (67) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals in the first half (25) 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 (-8) 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.
  • Phoenix Rising have the fewest conceded goals (30) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (16) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the most clean sheets (10) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the most points (26) away in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the most scored goals (60) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the most scored goals in the first half (28) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the most scored goals in the second half (32) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising have the the best goal difference (+30) in USL Championship
  • Phoenix Rising 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 Phoenix Rising 29 19 5 5 60 30 14 11 3 0 39 10 15 8 2 5 21 20 30 62
2 San Diego Loyal 28 14 4 10 46 36 14 9 1 4 24 15 14 5 3 6 22 21 10 46
3 Orange County 28 11 7 10 39 36 14 5 4 5 18 19 14 6 3 5 21 17 3 40
4 LA Galaxy II 28 10 6 12 47 50 14 3 5 6 26 24 14 7 1 6 21 26 -3 36
5 Oakland Roots 28 9 7 12 31 39 14 6 4 4 18 15 14 3 3 8 13 24 -8 34
6 Seattle Sounders II 28 9 6 13 33 38 14 7 3 4 21 14 14 2 3 9 12 24 -5 33
7 Sacramento Republic 29 8 9 12 34 40 14 4 3 7 18 22 15 4 6 5 16 18 -6 33
8 Las Vegas Lights 29 6 3 20 36 67 14 3 2 9 18 26 15 3 1 11 18 41 -31 21

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.