Can Austin outdo LA Galaxy in Bold Stadium clash?

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 08.May
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Bold Stadium (5803 seats)

This pair of teams are satisfied with a quality season so far and match dates like this one could be deciding. Read more about Austin - LA Galaxy!

Insights:
  • Austin have the most scored goals (22) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have scored more than double the goals of LA Galaxy.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Austin form and stats

4 victories, 1 draw and 0 defeats. That’s what Austin have to build on here at Bold Stadium in the Major League Soccer. The happy trend is alive also outside their own arena as Austin has won their last four matches.

Austin enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Houston Dynamo's place. The match ended 2-1 with Gil and Driussi scoring. Fagúndez (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.61/10. Fagúndez hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 42 successful passes (of 52 total).

Ahead of that match, Austin won a home game hosting Vancouver Whitecaps (3-0).

This is expected to be a close game, with Austin perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Austin as a small favourite), we find four games. Austin has won one of these, drawn one and lost two.

As for guarding their own goal, Austin have only let in 2 goals at home.

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LA Galaxy form and stats

The visitors are W2-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer.

LA Galaxy play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Real Salt Lake (placed 5th). Defender Araujo was the best team player with a rating of 7.05. Araujo won 2 of 5 duels.

A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Nashville SC.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by LA Galaxy in our archives, and the results are: three wins for LA Galaxy, two draws and three defeats.

The schedule is very tough for LA Galaxy now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A US Open Cup game at California Utd Strikers is waiting in only three days.

Galaxy have scored 6 goals on their travels this season, from 5 away games in the league.

Head 2 Head

Stats for the former two meetings involving these two sides are: one win for Austin, zero draws and one win for LA Galaxy. Over 2,5 goals: zero times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

AustinS. Driussi
S. Driussi
7 goals
LA GalaxyJ. Hernández Balcázar
J. Hernández Balcázar
5 goals
AustinM. Urruti
M. Urruti
4 goals

Austin missing players

LA Galaxy missing players

Austin LA Galaxy
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
9 5 0 Played P 0 5 9
6 4 0 Won W 0 2 5
2 1 0 Drew D 0 1 1
1 0 0 Lost L 0 2 3
22 15 0 Scored S 0 6 10
8 2 0 Conceded C 0 5 7
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 80% 89%
78% 80% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 40% 33%
67% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 33%
44% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 22%
33% 40% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 11%
56% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 33%
33% 60% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 44%
11% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 33%
 
5 4.4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5.8 6.4
4.1 3.6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3.8 3.6
2.7 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.2 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
13.2 14.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 13.6 14.1
5 5.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 3.7
49% 58% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 30%
 
12.6 11.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 8.8 9.1
4.1 3 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2.4 2.8
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Austin have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Austin have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Austin have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Austin have scored more than double the goals of LA Galaxy.
  • Austin have the most scored goals (15) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the most scored goals (22) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the the best goal difference (+13) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the the best goal difference (+14) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • LA Galaxy have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 Los Angeles FC 9 7 1 1 21 8 5 4 1 0 12 3 4 3 0 1 9 5 13 22
2 Austin 9 6 2 1 22 8 5 4 1 0 15 2 4 2 1 1 7 6 14 20
3 Dallas 9 4 4 1 14 7 5 4 1 0 12 4 4 0 3 1 2 3 7 16
4 LA Galaxy 9 5 1 3 10 7 4 3 0 1 4 2 5 2 1 2 6 5 3 16
5 Real Salt Lake 10 4 4 2 10 13 4 3 1 0 6 3 6 1 3 2 4 10 -3 16
6 Minnesota United 9 4 2 3 11 8 5 3 1 1 9 4 4 1 1 2 2 4 3 14
7 Houston Dynamo 9 3 3 3 12 11 6 2 3 1 8 7 3 1 0 2 4 4 1 12
8 Colorado Rapids 9 3 3 3 11 11 5 3 2 0 8 1 4 0 1 3 3 10 0 12
9 Nashville SC 9 3 3 3 9 10 1 0 1 0 1 1 8 3 2 3 8 9 -1 12
10 Portland Timbers 10 2 5 3 10 15 5 1 3 1 5 6 5 1 2 2 5 9 -5 11
11 Sporting KC 10 2 2 6 8 16 5 2 2 1 5 4 5 0 0 5 3 12 -8 8
12 Seattle Sounders 7 2 1 4 9 11 3 1 0 2 3 4 4 1 1 2 6 7 -2 7
13 SJ Earthquakes 9 1 3 5 15 23 5 1 3 1 12 13 4 0 0 4 3 10 -8 6
14 Vancouver Whitecaps 8 1 1 6 6 17 3 1 1 1 3 3 5 0 0 5 3 14 -11 4

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Major League Soccer (often known simply as MLS) is the top level of football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. MLS has 24 teams divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. Each team play 34 fixtures to decide a league table champion. The top fourteen teams then compete in playoff to crown a MLS Cup champion.