Match sneak peek for Premier League: Forge - Valour at Tim Hortons Field

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Competition: Canada Premier League
Competition: Sat 23.July
Match begins: 20:30 (UTC)
Venue: Tim Hortons Field (23218 seats)

There has been no shortage of boom and bust for these teams this season, occupying positions near the median of the Premier League table. Here's the Forge - Valour latest:

Insights:
  • Forge have the most scored goals (28) in Premier League
  • Valour have the most scored goals (17) away in Premier League

Forge's stadium, Tim Hortons Field, has a artifical turf surface. Valour have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Valour when playing on artifical turf; 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses from six matches. They have scored 11 goals in these games and conceded 9.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Forge and Valour.

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Forge form and stats

When playing at home in the Premier League, Forge have managed 3 wins, 2 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 7 games.

Forge's last game was hosting Edmonton (placed 8th) and winning 5-1. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Forge played a great game against Edmonton and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one. What a game it was for Pacius when beating Edmonton, applying the finishing touch to three goals!

In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting York9.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Forge as they are travelling to their away game against Cavalry in the Premier League. That match is four days after this one.

Forge are not conceding a lot of goals here at Tim Hortons Field in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 7 matches.

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Valour form and stats

The visitors are W3-D3-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Atletico Ottawa (placed 2nd) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1.

A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs HFX Wanderers.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Valour are regular goalscorers on their travels. 11 goals have been conceded by Valour in these games.

Head 2 Head

These competitors have fought earlier this season: Forge - Valour 0-1. Forge-Valour H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Forge five wins, Valour four wins, one draw. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

ForgeW. Pacius
W. Pacius
7 goals
ForgeT. Borges
T. Borges
6 goals
ValourM. Dyer
M. Dyer
6 goals

Forge missing players

Valour missing players

Forge Valour
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
13 7 1 Played P 2 8 14
7 3 1 Won W 0 3 5
2 2 0 Drew D 1 3 5
4 2 0 Lost L 1 2 4
28 14 3 Scored S 4 17 22
12 6 0 Conceded C 5 11 17
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
77% 71% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 64%
62% 57% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 43%
31% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 36%
15% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 25% 21%
38% 43% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 88% 64%
38% 29% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 29%
23% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 14%
 
6.8 7.6 8 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 5.8 5.2
1.7 1.7 3 Corners against (avg) C A 7.5 5.4 5.4
1.8 1.1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 2.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
9.9 10.1 6 Shots (avg) S ( 6 11.8 12.8
4.5 4.1 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.9 5.2
47% 48% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 44% 30%
 
6.2 5.7 4 Shots against (avg) S A 12.5 10.4 10.5
2.6 2.3 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 4.2 4.5
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Forge have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Forge have the fewest conceded goals (12) in Premier League
  • Forge have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Premier League
  • Forge have the most scored goals (28) in Premier League
  • Forge have the most scored goals in the first half (14) in Premier League
  • Forge have the the best goal difference (+16) in Premier League
  • Forge have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Forge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Forge is in the best form (4-0-2) in Premier League
  • Valour have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Valour have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Valour have the most scored goals (17) away in Premier League
  • Valour 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 Cavalry 15 8 4 3 27 16 6 5 0 1 11 3 9 3 4 2 16 13 11 28
2 Atletico Ottawa 15 7 5 3 16 15 8 3 3 2 7 10 7 4 2 1 9 5 1 26
3 Pacific 16 7 5 4 23 24 8 4 3 1 14 13 8 3 2 3 9 11 -1 26
4 Forge 13 7 2 4 28 12 7 3 2 2 14 6 6 4 0 2 14 6 16 23
5 Valour 14 5 5 4 22 17 6 2 2 2 5 6 8 3 3 2 17 11 5 20
6 HFX Wanderers 15 5 2 8 13 21 6 2 1 3 6 12 9 3 1 5 7 9 -8 17
7 York9 16 3 5 8 10 19 9 2 2 5 8 13 7 1 3 3 2 6 -9 14
8 Edmonton 16 2 4 10 18 33 10 2 3 5 13 16 6 0 1 5 5 17 -15 10