Premier League preview: Can Cavalry edge out victory against Valour?

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Competition: Canada Premier League
Competition: Sat 21.May
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Hellard Field (3000 seats)

Cavalry battle against Valour for kudos and football prosperity.

Insights:
  • Cavalry have the most scored goals in the first half (7) in Premier League
  • Valour have the most scored goals (9) away in Premier League

Valour have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1300 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Cavalry form and stats

The hosts won their first Premier League game here at Hellard Field, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Cavalry last season were 6 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses from 14 games.

The home team returns to Hellard Field after drawing with HFX Wanderers (placed 6th) on their last time out; the game ended 2-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Cavalry handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Vancouver Whitecaps are coming to town in four days.

Cavalry has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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Valour form and stats

Valour are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premier League, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).

The Valour goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 230 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Valour are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the match against York9 (placed 2nd).

We have checked recent matches where Valour have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 8 games were 2 victories, 1 draw and 5 defeats.

Valour struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 5 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head data (for the former ten meetings): Cavalry won six games, three matches ended with a draw and Valour have one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / seven

Top Goalscorers

CavalryJ. Mason
J. Mason
3 goals
CavalryA. Musse
A. Musse
3 goals
ValourM. Dyer
M. Dyer
3 goals

Cavalry missing players

Valour missing players

Cavalry Valour
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
6 1 0 Played P 0 3 5
2 1 0 Won W 0 1 2
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
2 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
9 2 0 Scored S 0 9 10
7 0 0 Conceded C 0 5 5
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 80%
83% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 60%
50% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 40%
33% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 67% 40%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 67% 40%
33% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 60%
33% 100% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 40%
33% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 20%
 
5.5 6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5.7 4.8
4.3 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 6
3.8 3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.7 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
6.3 7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 14 13.8
3.5 2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 7.7 6.6
43% 100% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 39% 30%
 
6.7 10 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 12 13.8
3.3 3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 6 6
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Cavalry's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Valour's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cavalry have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Premier League
  • Cavalry have the most scored goals in the first half (7) in Premier League
  • Cavalry have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Cavalry haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Valour have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Valour have the most scored goals (9) away in Premier League
  • Valour have the the best goal difference (+4) away in Premier League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Pacific 8 5 2 1 10 7 5 4 1 0 9 5 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 17
2 York9 7 2 3 2 6 5 4 2 1 1 5 3 3 0 2 1 1 2 1 9
3 Forge 6 2 2 2 11 6 3 1 2 0 6 3 3 1 0 2 5 3 5 8
4 Valour 5 2 2 1 10 5 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 9 5 5 8
5 Cavalry 6 2 2 2 9 7 1 1 0 0 2 0 5 1 2 2 7 7 2 8
6 HFX Wanderers 7 2 2 3 7 10 3 1 1 1 5 7 4 1 1 2 2 3 -3 8
7 Atletico Ottawa 6 2 2 2 6 10 4 2 0 2 3 7 2 0 2 0 3 3 -4 8
8 Edmonton 7 0 3 4 4 13 4 0 3 1 2 5 3 0 0 3 2 8 -9 3