After the first game it's Atlanta United - Cincinnati 3-0 in points. Who will triumph in this second Major League Soccer game of the season?
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Atlanta United form and stats
A good away victory last time out for Atlanta United, who won 2-1 against Nashville SC. Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Motagua.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Atlanta United home games with this odds we find ten games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in seven wins, two draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, five matches were won by at least two goals.
The manager F. de Boer will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to América in only four days.
Last season, Atlanta United's league statistics were 18 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses, resulting in a 2nd position in the Major League Soccer. Over these 34 matches they scored 58 goals and conceded 43. Playing at home last season Atlanta United managed 12-3-2 (win-draw-lost) with 36 goals and 14 conceded.
Cincinnati form and stats
Cincinnati have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Major League Soccer were 3 victories, 3 draws and 11 defeats from 17 fixtures.
Cincinnati play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 2-3 to New York RB (placed 1st). Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to DC United.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Cincinnati played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, one were draw and the home team won as expected two times.
2 goals so far away for Cincinnati, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 3. All from 1 league match away.
Let's have a look at how Cincinnati performed last season in the USL Championship: They landed a 12th position in the league table after playing out 6 victories, 6 draws and 22 defeats. In total they scored 31 and conceded 75 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 3 and lost 11 with 16/39 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Atlanta United one win, one draw and Cincinnati zero victories. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 E. Barco 1 goals |  E. Hyndman 1 goals |  A. Cruz Leal 1 goals |
Atlanta United missing players
Cincinnati missing players
| Atlanta United | Cincinnati | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 40% | 40% |
| Atlanta United | Last season | Cincinnati | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 37 | 20 | Played | P | 17 | 34 | ||
| 20 | 14 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 13 | 3 | Lost | L | 11 | 22 | ||
| 62 | 40 | Scored | S | 16 | 31 | ||
| 45 | 16 | Conceded | C | 39 | 75 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 94% | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 76% | 85% | ||
| 51% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 53% | ||
| 27% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 41% | 35% | ||
| 16% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 24% | 24% | ||
| 49% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 59% | 56% | ||
| 43% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 15% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 35% | ||
| 5.7 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.1 | 3.8 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.1 | 6.2 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 4 | ||
| 560 | 319 | Total Shots | T S | 157 | 363 | ||
| 196 | 122 | Shots on Target | S O | 52 | 123 | ||
| 32% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 25% | ||
| 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Atlanta United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Montreal Impact | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Columbus Crew | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Toronto | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Orlando City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Cincinnati | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 8 | Chicago Fire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 9 | DC United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | New England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Inter Miami | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | New York City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Philadelphia Union | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |