Football betting preview: Atlanta United favourites when Toronto visits

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Date: Wed 08.May
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mercedes-Benz Stadium (73019 seats)

Atlanta United will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Toronto.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

This pitch has artificial turf, which is not Toronto's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artificial turf Toronto have performed like this: Played ten matches resulting in 3 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats with the goal stats 14-18 (scored/conceded). Toronto have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1500 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Atlanta United form and stats

When playing at home, Atlanta United, who have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Major League Soccer, have managed 1 win, 2 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 4 games.

Happy days for Atlanta United in their previous game, a Major League Soccer match away at Sporting KC that ended with a 3-0 victory. Before that, Atlanta United had a home game versus Colorado Rapids which ended with a victory 1-0.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Atlanta United's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won 2 matches, drawn 0 and lost 1.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Atlanta United, as the Major League Soccer home game vs Orlando City is only four days away.

The Atlanta United fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 4 in 4 matches. On the other hand, Atlanta United have conceded 4 goals.

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Toronto form and stats

Toronto have six points from their first three away games, meaning two victories and a loss.

Two travels in a row for Toronto, whose manager G. Vanney could celebrate last time after the Major League Soccer win against Orlando City. A loss against Portland Timbers was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Toronto when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing 1 time, drawing 0 and winning 1 game.

A new game in only three days for Toronto, the Major League Soccer home match versus Philadelphia Union. Busy days.

With an average of more than two away goals per game, Toronto are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Toronto have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last four meetings): Atlanta United won 0 games, 3 matches ended with a draw and Toronto has 1 win.

Top Goalscorers

J. Altidore
5 goals / 2 assists
E. Barco
4 goals / 1 assists
J. Martínez
4 goals

Atlanta United missing players

Toronto missing players

Atlanta United Toronto
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
8 4 1 Played 1 3 8
3 1 0 Won 1 2 5
2 2 1 Drew 0 0 1
3 1 0 Lost 0 1 2
9 4 1 Scored 2 7 21
8 4 1 Conceded 0 4 13
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 100% 100% 100%
88% 75% 100% Over 1.5 100% 100% 100%
25% 25% 0% Over 2.5 0% 67% 88%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 67% 75%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 33% 38%
38% 75% 100% BTTS 0% 67% 75%
38% 25% 0% Clean Sheets 100% 33% 25%
25% 0% 0% Failed To Score 0% 0% 0%
 
5.4 5.8 3 Corners For (avg) 4 4.7 5
2.9 1.2 1 Corners Against (avg) 11 8.7 5.9
1.4 1 1 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 0.7 0.9
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Neither of the teams have played a single 0-0 game.
  • Toronto has scored in all of their 8 away matches.

Atlanta United
30-03-19 MLS Columbus Crew 2 - 0 Atlanta United
13-04-19 MLS New England 0 - 2 Atlanta United
20-04-19 MLS Atlanta United 1 - 2 Dallas
27-04-19 MLS Atlanta United 1 - 0 Colorado Rapids
06-05-19 MLS Sporting KC 0 - 3 Atlanta United
08-05-19 MLS Atlanta United 23:00 Toronto
12-05-19 MLS Atlanta United 18:30 Orlando City
16-05-19 MLS Vancouver Whitecaps 02:00 Atlanta United
19-05-19 MLS New York RB 21:00 Atlanta United
25-05-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 01:00 Atlanta United
Toronto
06-04-19 MLS Toronto 2 - 2 Chicago Fire
13-04-19 MLS Seattle Sounders 3 - 2 Toronto
20-04-19 MLS Toronto 4 - 3 Minnesota United
27-04-19 MLS Toronto 1 - 2 Portland Timbers
04-05-19 MLS Orlando City 0 - 2 Toronto
08-05-19 MLS Atlanta United 23:00 Toronto
11-05-19 MLS Toronto 19:00 Philadelphia Union
16-05-19 MLS Toronto - DC United
18-05-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 19:00 Toronto
26-05-19 MLS Toronto 23:30 SJ Earthquakes

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Philadelphia Union 11 6 2 3 21 11 6 5 0 1 17 5 5 1 2 2 4 6 10 20
2 DC United 11 6 2 3 16 11 6 3 1 2 10 7 5 3 1 1 6 4 5 20
3 Montreal Impact 11 5 2 4 12 16 3 2 0 1 2 2 8 3 2 3 10 14 -4 17
4 Toronto 8 5 1 2 21 13 5 3 1 1 14 9 3 2 0 1 7 4 8 16
5 New York City 10 3 6 1 13 12 5 1 4 0 4 3 5 2 2 1 9 9 1 15
6 Columbus Crew 11 4 1 6 9 14 6 3 1 2 6 5 5 1 0 4 3 9 -5 13
7 Orlando City 10 3 3 4 13 16 6 2 1 3 9 12 4 1 2 1 4 4 -3 12
8 Atlanta United 8 3 2 3 9 8 4 1 2 1 4 4 4 2 0 2 5 4 1 11
9 New York RB 9 3 2 4 12 11 5 3 0 2 9 6 4 0 2 2 3 5 1 11
10 Chicago Fire 10 2 4 4 12 13 5 2 2 1 9 7 5 0 2 3 3 6 -1 10
11 Cincinnati 11 2 2 7 8 17 4 1 1 2 4 6 7 1 1 5 4 11 -9 8
12 New England 11 2 2 7 11 25 6 2 0 4 3 10 5 0 2 3 8 15 -14 8