Another adrenaline-pumping match as Valour receive Pacific

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Competition: Canada Premier League
Competition: Sat 29.Jul
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: IG Field (33422 seats)

Scrambling Valour need to pull off an upset when they play top team Pacific in the upcoming league game. It’s 7th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have modest confidence.

Insights:
  • Valour have the fewest scored goals (13) in Premier League
  • Pacific have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in Premier League

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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Valour form and stats

Valour have played 8 Premier League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-4-2 (wins-draws-losses). We have seen two home losses in a row now for Valour, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.

The Valour crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to York9 here at IG Field.

A 1-1 draw away before that, with Forge the opponent.

Low-scoring affair? In this team's last 11 league games, 10 have produced less than three goals (under 2.5).

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Valour here at IG Field in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 8 games). From these home matches, Valour have conceded only 7 goals. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Pacific form and stats

3-2-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Pacific in their Premier League matches away.

The attacking players of Pacific have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 183 minutes.

This match can not go any worse than the last one, the home defeat versus Forge with 0-2 on the scoreboard.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus York9 that ended 0-0.

The Pacific manager Merriman has got the team scoring on the road, with 13 away goals in 6 league matches. As opposed to that, Pacific have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The most up to date reported result between these teams is the Pacific - Valour 1-0 played not long ago this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Valour victory, two draws and seven Pacific wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PacificA. Didic
A. Didic
4 goals
PacificE. Ongaro
E. Ongaro
4 goals
PacificA. Sellouf
A. Sellouf
4 goals

Valour missing players

Pacific missing players

Valour Pacific
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 8 1 Played P 2 6 16
3 2 0 Won W 2 3 7
7 4 0 Drew D 0 2 5
6 2 1 Lost L 0 1 4
13 7 0 Scored S 10 13 25
17 7 2 Conceded C 4 7 17
88% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 94%
75% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 62%
12% 12% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 38%
6% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 33% 25%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 33% 19%
44% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 56%
31% 38% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 31%
38% 25% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 19%
 
5.5 5.2 7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4 5.1
4.4 3.6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 4.2 3.8
2.1 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.2 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
11.1 11.8 15 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 13.2 13
3.1 3.4 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.5 4.5 4.1
26% 26% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 77% 48% 38%
 
11.2 9.9 8 Shots against (avg) S A 15 11.2 9.9
4.6 3.9 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 3.7 3.1
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Pacific have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Pacific have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in Premier League
  • Pacific have the the best goal difference (+6) away in Premier League
  • Pacific have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Valour have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premier League
  • Valour have the fewest scored goals (13) in Premier League
  • Valour have the fewest scored goals in the first half (4) in Premier League
  • Valour have the most matches under the total-line (14) in Premier League
  • Valour is in the worst form (1-1-4)

  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 16 7 6 3 26 18 8 4 3 1 12 8 8 3 3 2 14 10 8 27
2 Pacific 16 7 5 4 25 17 10 4 3 3 12 10 6 3 2 1 13 7 8 26
3 Forge 17 7 5 5 23 19 8 2 4 2 12 12 9 5 1 3 11 7 4 26
4 York9 17 7 3 7 19 23 8 2 2 4 6 12 9 5 1 3 13 11 -4 24
5 HFX Wanderers 16 5 7 4 19 19 7 5 1 1 11 7 9 0 6 3 8 12 0 22
6 Atlético Ottawa 16 6 3 7 24 20 8 4 1 3 10 8 8 2 2 4 14 12 4 21
7 Valour 16 3 7 6 13 17 8 2 4 2 7 7 8 1 3 4 6 10 -4 16
8 Vancouver FC 16 3 4 9 15 31 8 2 2 4 10 20 8 1 2 5 5 11 -16 13