Leagues Cup betting and spectator preview: Montreal Impact and DC United meet at Stade Saputo to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
DC United have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 4200 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
The hosts Montreal Impact saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Leagues Cup. Thankfully the previous game, versus Pumas UNAM, was also a home game here at Stade Saputo. The away team is better rested.
Montreal Impact form and stats
24 points is a decent return from 11 Major League Soccer games here at Stade Saputo for Montreal Impact. The data says 8 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses.
The home supporters witnessed a 2-2 draw versus Pumas UNAM in the Leagues Cup last time out and are hoping for a victory here.
Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Charlotte.This is expected to be a close game, with Montreal Impact perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Montreal Impact as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Montreal Impact has won 7 of these, drawn 4 and lost 4.
Montreal have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stade Saputo with 17 goals in 11 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Montreal Impact have only let in {5 goals} at home.
DC United form and stats
4 wins, 2 draws and 7 losses. That’s the product of DC United playing as the away team in the Major League Soccer this season.
DC United are travelling again after losing away to New England in their previous match (0-4). DC United lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Attacker Benteke got a player rating of 7.4 in the game. "Man of the match" Benteke hit the woodwork once and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Inter Miami in the Major League Soccer.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by DC United in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for DC United, 3 draws and 4 defeats.
The schedule is very tough for DC United now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Leagues Cup game at Pumas UNAM is waiting in only three days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting DC United as they have only managed to score 12 times from 13 away games in the league. DC United have conceded 20 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Stats for the prior ten meetings between these two contenders are: four wins for Montreal, three draws and three wins for DC United. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Benteke Liolo 8 goals |  T. Fountas 6 goals |   C. Nnamdi 4 goals |
Montreal Impact missing players
DC United missing players
| Montreal Impact | DC United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 10 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 3 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 31 | 23 | Scored | S | 12 | 30 | ||
| 32 | 7 | Conceded | C | 21 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 92% | ||
| 76% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 21% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 4% | ||
| 24% | 14% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 64% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 32% | ||
| 36% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 43% | 28% | ||
| 4.4 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| 4.4 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.5 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 10.9 | 11.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.4 | 12.5 | ||
| 4 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4 | ||
| 31% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 30% | ||
| 12.2 | 9.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.4 | 11.1 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Montreal Impact | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Pumas UNAM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | DC United | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cincinnati | 23 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 39 | 25 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 51 |
| 2 | New England | 23 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 42 | 28 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 29 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 43 |
| 3 | Philadelphia Union | 23 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 39 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 13 | 40 |
| 4 | Nashville SC | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 31 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 38 |
| 5 | Orlando City | 23 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 28 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 37 |
| 6 | Columbus Crew | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 45 | 33 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 12 | 36 |
| 7 | Atlanta United | 24 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 42 | 39 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 24 | 3 | 35 |
| 8 | Chicago Fire | 23 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 31 | 31 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 32 |
| 9 | DC United | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 32 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 20 | -2 | 30 |
| 10 | Montreal Impact | 23 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 22 | 32 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 27 | -10 | 29 |
| 11 | New York RB | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 13 | -4 | 26 |
| 12 | New York City | 24 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 25 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -5 | 26 |
| 13 | Charlotte | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 30 | 40 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 23 | -10 | 26 |
| 14 | Toronto | 24 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 18 | 33 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 22 | -15 | 19 |
| 15 | Inter Miami | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 22 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 21 | -14 | 18 |
