Shaky top table potboiler in Major League Soccer as Colorado Rapids have travelled the 1926 miles necessary to meet New England at their Gillette Stadium.
- New England have the most scored goals (64) in Major League Soccer
- Colorado Rapids have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It's no vacation for neither England nor Colorado Rapids 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.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Colorado Rapids have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 1-3-1 (win-draw-loss) from five matches.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 3100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
New England form and stats
New England are steadily winning Major League Soccer games and points here at Gillette Stadium. 11 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 15 games.
England travelled for their previous game, a trip to Orlando City that ended 2-2. Late drama in the game against Orlando City as New England were trailing by a goal near the finishing line until Adam Buksa popped out and made it level in the 90th minute. No victory last time out for England, but the draw 2-2 felt nice for Adam Buksa who came on as a substitute in the 46th minute and scored two goals. The forward Adam Buksa was named "man of the match" for England with the rating of 8.42/10. Buksa scored two goals.
In the game before, an away victory match versus DC United with a 3-2 scoreline.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from England's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won two matches, drawn one and lost zero.
Goals decide football matches and New England are scoring many of them at home; 30 on target from 15 league matches. On the other hand, New England have conceded 17 goals.
Colorado Rapids form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Major League Soccer travels is 7 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats.
Impressive finishing from Diego Rubio and Dominique Badji secured the home win 2-0 against Portland Timbers in their previous game. Midfielder Braian Galván was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.83. Galván served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Seattle Sounders.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Colorado Rapids when being an outsider away as they are today, we find one match with the visitors losing one time, drawing zero and winning zero games.
The schedule is very tough for Colorado Rapids now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Major League Soccer game at Houston Dynamo is waiting in only four days.
Colorado have scored 19 goals on their travels this season, from 15 away games in the league. Colorado have conceded 20 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): New England six wins, two draws and Colorado Rapids two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Buksa 16 goals | G. Bou 15 goals |  M. Barrios Puerta 8 goals |
New England missing players
Colorado Rapids missing players
| New England | Colorado Rapids | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 15 | 3 | Played | P | 0 | 15 | 31 |
| 21 | 11 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 7 | 15 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 64 | 30 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 19 | 45 |
| 40 | 17 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 20 | 32 |
| 97% | 93% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 93% | 90% |
| 81% | 80% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 73% | 81% |
| 69% | 73% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 48% |
| 47% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 26% |
| 31% | 27% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 3% |
| 72% | 80% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 53% | 55% |
| 22% | 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 39% |
| 9% | 7% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 16% |
| 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.7 | 4.9 |
| 5.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| 1.7 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14.5 | 15.5 | 13.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 13 | 13.6 |
| 5.2 | 5.3 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| 38% | 38% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 34% |