Atlanta United favourites for feisty fight facing Austin

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 09.July
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium (71000 seats)

Atlanta United ended up with a 2-2 result against New York City last week, a game to learn from. Next is this resolute Austin team.

Insights:
  • Atlanta United have the most matches over the total-line (9) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the most points (19) away in Major League Soccer

This promises to be an intriguing game with lots of fun and energy as both squads are well recovered since they last played a game. Let's go!

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Atlanta United form and stats

When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Atlanta United have managed 4 wins, 3 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 8 games.

Atlanta United shared the glory with New York City in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. Dwyer was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against New York City after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? Franco was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.01 out of 10. The defender Franco hit one key pass and won 6 of 7 duels.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at New York RB.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Atlanta United have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 2 and lost 4.

Take note: 9 of the most recent 10 league games from this club have had goals from both sides.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Major League Soccer game versus Real Salt Lake in only four days. This game is also played here at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (17 in 8 games), Atlanta's attacking play is working. On the other hand, Atlanta United have conceded 10 goals.

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Austin form and stats

6 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Austin, who have the most points (19) away in Major League Soccer, playing as the away team in the Major League Soccer this season. It’s been three wins in a row for Austin on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Austin play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-2 victory visiting Colorado Rapids. Austin can call themselves comeback kings after the match against Colorado Rapids. Buried deep in trouble at 0-2, the troops rallied and completely turned the match around to a 3-2 victory. Urruti scored the final goal. Defender Gallagher was the best team player with a rating of 8.61. Gallagher served one assist, hit two key passes and won 6 of 8 duels.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Charlotte with the score of 1-0.

We have checked recent matches where Austin have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 13 games were 4 victories, 0 draws and 9 defeats.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 9 of this side's 12 most recent league matches have ended with three goals or more.

After this away game Austin return home for a Major League Soccer game against Houston Dynamo. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Austin are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 16 times in 10 away games so far. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Austin have conceded 15 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

AustinS. Driussi
S. Driussi
10 goals
AustinM. Urruti
M. Urruti
6 goals
Atlanta UnitedJ. Martínez
J. Martínez
5 goals

Atlanta United missing players

Austin missing players

Atlanta United Austin
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 8 1 Played P 1 10 18
5 4 0 Won W 1 6 10
5 3 1 Drew D 0 1 4
7 1 0 Lost L 0 3 4
26 17 3 Scored S 3 16 35
26 10 3 Conceded C 2 15 22
94% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
82% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 70% 72%
76% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 70% 67%
35% 50% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 40% 44%
12% 25% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 30% 28%
71% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 70% 61%
18% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 28%
18% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 10% 11%
 
5.9 6.5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 9 3.7 4.2
5.6 4.9 6 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.9 4.8
2.1 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.1 2.5
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 3 3
 
15.6 17.1 9 Shots (avg) S ( 16 9.7 12.3
5.4 6.4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 3.8 4.2
29% 33% 75% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 42% 47%
 
12.9 12.9 16 Shots against (avg) S A 13 14.2 13
3.2 3.2 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 5.4 4.6
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Atlanta United have the most matches over the total-line (9) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Austin have the most points (19) away in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the most scored goals (16) away in Major League Soccer
  • Austin haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 New York RB 19 9 5 5 29 20 9 3 4 2 14 10 10 6 1 3 15 10 9 32
2 Philadelphia Union 18 7 9 2 22 13 9 4 5 0 11 5 9 3 4 2 11 8 9 30
3 New York City 17 8 5 4 33 19 10 6 3 1 24 10 7 2 2 3 9 9 14 29
4 Montreal Impact 18 9 2 7 32 33 8 5 0 3 16 12 10 4 2 4 16 21 -1 29
5 New England 18 6 7 5 29 28 10 4 4 2 15 12 8 2 3 3 14 16 1 25
6 Cincinnati 18 7 4 7 29 32 8 3 1 4 16 15 10 4 3 3 13 17 -3 25
7 Orlando City 18 7 4 7 23 28 9 4 0 5 14 19 9 3 4 2 9 9 -5 25
8 Charlotte 19 7 2 10 19 23 9 6 0 3 11 6 10 1 2 7 8 17 -4 23
9 Columbus Crew 17 5 7 5 20 18 8 3 2 3 10 7 9 2 5 2 10 11 2 22
10 Inter Miami 17 6 4 7 18 26 9 5 2 2 14 12 8 1 2 5 4 14 -8 22
11 Atlanta United 17 5 5 7 26 26 8 4 3 1 17 10 9 1 2 6 9 16 0 20
12 Toronto 18 5 3 10 24 34 10 5 0 5 14 17 8 0 3 5 10 17 -10 18
13 DC United 16 5 2 9 23 30 9 3 1 5 13 15 7 2 1 4 10 15 -7 17
14 Chicago Fire 18 4 5 9 16 24 8 3 3 2 7 5 10 1 2 7 9 19 -8 17

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