It's been four days and nights since Louisville City ran out versus Loudoun United and the score was 1-0. How will it end hosting Pittsburgh Riverhounds?
- Louisville City have the most clean sheets (9) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals (11) in USL Championship
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Pittsburgh Riverhounds have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 4-7-4 (win-draw-loss) from 15 matches.
It's no vacation for neither Louisville City nor Pittsburgh Riverhounds 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.
Louisville City form and stats
Louisville City have played 6 USL Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-0-3 (wins-draws-losses). The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Lynn Family Stadium.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Louisville, as their goalkeeper Oliver Semmle has completely shut out the opponents for 286 minutes in the USL Championship.
Louisville City's previous game was also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Loudoun United (placed 9th). The home side are looking to build on that result.
Before that, Louisville played out a draw 0-0 when visiting Pittsburgh Riverhounds.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 Louisville City have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 6 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 0 and lost 1.
Louisville has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Louisville City defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Pittsburgh Riverhounds form and stats
2 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Pittsburgh Riverhounds playing as the away team in the USL Championship this season. In general it has been a productive period now for Riverhounds as they haven't lost any of their last eleven games.
Pittsburgh Riverhounds are looking to quickly end their 180 minutes long goal drought in the USL Championship. 228 minutes! That's how long the Pittsburgh Riverhounds goalkeeper Luis Enrique Jr Zamudio Lizardo and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Riverhounds played 0-0 against Sacramento Republic in their previous match.
Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Louisville City.Pittsburgh Riverhounds are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 8 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.
A tale of few goals? 12 of this side's latest 16 league fixtures have had two goals or less.
A quick return to home after this game, as Pittsburgh Riverhounds are hosting Detroit City in the USL Championship only three days away.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Riverhounds as they have only managed to score 8 times from 9 away games in the league. Pittsburgh Riverhounds are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 8 times in 9 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Louisville City have pulled off a streak of 5 consecutive games without defeat (2-3-0) when playing Pittsburgh Riverhounds.It's not the first time these two sides face each other this season, as the results database show this recent match: Pittsburgh Riverhounds - Louisville 0-0.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Dikwa Lega 9 goals |  W. Harris 4 goals | S. Totsch 3 goals |
Louisville City missing players
Pittsburgh Riverhounds missing players
| Louisville City | Pittsburgh Riverhounds | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | 9 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 22 |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 12 |
| 82% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 78% | 78% |
| 47% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 56% | 61% |
| 41% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 22% | 28% |
| 29% | 25% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 22% | 17% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 35% | 38% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 44% | 44% |
| 53% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 44% |
| 29% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 44% | 33% |
| 4.8 | 4.6 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
| 3.6 | 2.8 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.3 |
| 1.9 | 2.2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11.5 | 14 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 9.7 | 9.4 |
| 3.6 | 5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
| 28% | 22% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 28% | 35% |
| 10.7 | 9 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.5 | 7.3 | 8.3 |
| 3.5 | 2.9 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
- Louisville City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Louisville City have the most clean sheets (9) in USL Championship
- Louisville City haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals (11) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in USL Championship
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Charleston Battery | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 8 | -3 | 28 |
| 2 | Pittsburgh Riverhounds | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 27 |
| 3 | Memphis 901 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 25 |
| 4 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 25 |
| 5 | Birmingham Legion | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 22 |
| 6 | Louisville City | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -3 | 22 |
| 7 | Indy Eleven | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | -2 | 16 |
| 8 | Detroit City | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 16 |
| 9 | Loudoun United | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 17 | -8 | 16 |
| 10 | Miami FC II | 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | -6 | 13 |
| 11 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 16 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | -9 | 13 |
| 12 | Hartford Athletic | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | -12 | 10 |
