Season ticket holders haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Austin languishing in the 11th position so far. The guesting Columbus Crew will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
- Austin have the fewest scored goals (6) in Major League Soccer
- Columbus Crew have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Major League Soccer
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Austin and Columbus Crew.
Austin form and stats
Austin, who have the fewest scored goals (6) in Major League Soccer, have played 1 Major League Soccer games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-1-0 (wins-draws-losses).
C. Dominguez was the last player to score a league goal for Austin and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Austin haven't scored in 244 minutes.
Austin faced defeat in their previous match, away at Minnesota United (0-2). Midfielder Sebastian Berhalter was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.8 (out of ten) in that game. Berhalter hit one key pass, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 67 successful passes (of 80 total).
In the match before that, Austin hosted SJ Earthquakes and drew the game 0-0.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Austin, as the Major League Soccer home game vs Portland Timbers is only four days away.
Early season league goal statistics from Austin's 1 home game: 0 goals, 0 conceded.
Columbus Crew form and stats
1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Columbus Crew playing as the away team in the Major League Soccer this season.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Columbus, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Philadelphia Union. Pedro Santos was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.44. The defender Santos won 5 of 10 duels.
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Chicago Fire.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Columbus in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Columbus Crew, three draws and nine defeats.
Goals are few and far between in Columbus's away league games. Only 2 goals from 5 travels. Columbus have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  C. Domínguez Ruiz 3 goals |  L. Zelarayán 3 goals |  G. Zardes 3 goals |
Austin missing players
Columbus Crew missing players
| Austin | Columbus Crew | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 80% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 80% | 78% |
| 60% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 40% | 56% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 33% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 30% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 20% | 33% |
| 30% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 33% |
| 60% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 80% | 56% |
| 5.4 | 9 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.4 | 3.1 |
| 7.9 | 7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.6 | 4.7 |
| 1.5 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.9 | 20 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| 3.3 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.6 | 2.9 |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 35% |
- Austin have failed to score a single goal at home.
- Austin have not yet lost a game at home.
- Austin have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Major League Soccer
- Austin have the fewest points (1) at home in Major League Soccer
- Austin have the fewest scored goals (0) at home in Major League Soccer
- Austin have the fewest scored goals (6) in Major League Soccer
- Austin have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Major League Soccer
- Austin have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Austin have yet to win a game at home.
- Columbus Crew have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Columbus Crew have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Columbus Crew have scored at least twice as many goals away as Austin have scored home.
- Columbus Crew have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Major League Soccer
- Columbus Crew have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Seattle Sounders | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 24 |
| 2 | Sporting KC | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 20 |
| 3 | LA Galaxy | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 18 |
| 4 | Colorado Rapids | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| 5 | Houston Dynamo | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 13 |
| 6 | Portland Timbers | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -1 | 13 |
| 7 | Real Salt Lake | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 8 | Los Angeles FC | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| 9 | Minnesota United | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 11 |
| 10 | SJ Earthquakes | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 10 |
| 11 | Austin | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -5 | 9 |
| 12 | Dallas | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -5 | 7 |
| 13 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -6 | 7 |