Can Monterey Bay defeat El Paso Locomotive?

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sun 09.Jul
Match begins: 02:00 (UTC)

Monterey Bay and El Paso Locomotive are both thriving in the USL Championship with their 4th and 1st spots respectively. Expect a super match!

Insights:
  • El Paso Locomotive have the most points from losing position (9) in USL Championship

Monterey Bay have less rest than El Paso Locomotive in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a USL Championship game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Colorado Springs, so at least Monterey Bay are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Monterey Bay form and stats

The story so far in the USL Championship for Monterey Bay at their home stadium is 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. Two home wins in a row for Monterey bring valid hopes of a third.

Monterey Bay faced defeat in their previous match, away at Colorado Springs (0-4). Monterey Bay were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

Heartbreak before that as Monterey Bay lost 1-3 at Orange County's place.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Monterey have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 6 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 1 and lost 2.

Monterey Bay have conceded 11 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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El Paso Locomotive form and stats

El Paso Locomotive's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed El Paso Locomotive collect 17 points from their 7 away matches in the USL Championship. 5 victories and 2 draws have created these points (and only 0 defeats).

Home advantage was not enough for El Paso Locomotive in their previous game as they lost hosting New Mexico United, 0-1. That loss broke this club's string of league matches in a row without losing; twelve games in all!

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Tampa Bay Rowdies.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with El Paso Locomotive playing away and similar expectations, we found 11 relevant matches. Results were 4 Locomotive wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting San Antonio in just four days.

El Paso Locomotive have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 15 goals from 7 away matches. As opposed to that, Locomotive have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head to head statistics (for the last two meetings): Monterey Bay won one game, zero matches ended in a draw and El Paso Locomotive got one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / one. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Gómez with 2 goals scored against Monterey in these 2 matches.

Top Goalscorers

Monterey BayH. Dixon
H. Dixon
8 goals
El Paso LocomotiveL. Solignac
L. Solignac
8 goals
Monterey BayC. Volesky
C. Volesky
7 goals

Monterey Bay missing players

El Paso Locomotive missing players

Monterey Bay El Paso Locomotive
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 1 Played P 1 7 16
7 4 0 Won W 0 5 9
5 3 0 Drew D 1 2 3
6 2 1 Lost L 0 0 4
27 17 1 Scored S 2 15 24
26 11 2 Conceded C 2 8 17
89% 78% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 56% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 69%
56% 56% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 86% 56%
39% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 43% 25%
22% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 6%
61% 56% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 71% 56%
22% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 31%
28% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 12%
 
3.5 3.9 4 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.6 5
4.6 3.3 4 Corners against (avg) C A 9 4.7 4.2
2 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.9 2.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.8 9.6 3 Shots (avg) S ( 13 12.3 13.9
3.2 3.7 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.4 4.5
47% 52% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 48% 33%
 
11.6 9 11 Shots against (avg) S A 13 10.9 11.2
4.2 3.2 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 3.3 4.1
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • El Paso Locomotive have not yet lost a game away.
  • El Paso Locomotive have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • El Paso Locomotive have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • El Paso Locomotive have the most points (17) away in USL Championship
  • El Paso Locomotive have the most points from losing position (9) in USL Championship
  • El Paso Locomotive have the most scored goals (15) away in USL Championship
  • El Paso Locomotive have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • El Paso Locomotive 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 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.