A important fixture in Major League Soccer as both teams are challenging for the top spots. With Cincinnati in 1st place and Nashville SC located at 3rd, this is almost guaranteed to be a thriling battle. Read on to learn more!
- Cincinnati have the most clean sheets (9) in Major League Soccer
- Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Major League Soccer
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.
Cincinnati form and stats
Cincinnati have been very solid at home in the Major League Soccer so far, with 31 points collected from 11 matches (10-1-0). This has contributed greatly to their 1st position in the table.
Cincinnati enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at New York RB's place. The match ended 2-1 with Nwobodo and Acosta scoring. Sweet to taste a league win after three games without one. Some amazing scenes last match, when Nwobodo scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time. The attacking player Acosta was named "man of the match" for Cincinnati with the rating of 7.84/10. Acosta scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 4 of 8 times and had 28 successful passes (of 35 total).
Before that, Cincinnati played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Charlotte.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Cincinnati handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 8 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats.
Lots of goals? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 9 of the 12 latest league matches with this club has contained three goals or more.
Cincinnati have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Dr. DY Patil Stadium with 21 goals in 11 league matches. Cincinnati are not conceding a lot of goals here at Dr. DY Patil Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 11 matches.
Nashville SC form and stats
The visitors are W3-D3-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Smith, the Nashville SC manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Leal was the last player to score for the away team. Nashville haven't scored a league goal in the last 233 minutes.
Home advantage was not enough for Nashville SC in their previous game as they lost hosting Philadelphia Union, 0-2. Mukhtar got a match rating of 7.8 in that game, top player of the team. Mukhtar hit the woodwork once, hit four key passes and had 25 successful passes (of 28 total).
A 0-1 defeat away at Chicago Fire before that.Nashville are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 11 matches.
Little scoring action? 5 league games in a row with this side have had two goals or less.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Nashville SC as they have only managed to score 9 times from 11 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have battled earlier this season: Nashville SC - Cincinnati 0-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Cincinnati one win, two draws and Nashville SC two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Mukhtar 13 goals |   L. Acosta 11 goals |  D. Badji 4 goals |
Cincinnati missing players
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| Cincinnati | Nashville SC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 11 | 23 |
| 14 | 10 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 36 | 21 | 6 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 30 |
| 24 | 7 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 11 | 19 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 91% |
| 68% | 64% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 64% | 74% |
| 59% | 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 27% | 35% |
| 27% | 18% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| 14% | 9% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 55% | 45% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 45% | 43% |
| 41% | 55% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 18% | 30% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 45% | 35% |
| 4.3 | 4.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5.5 | 5.7 |
| 4.3 | 4.7 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 2.2 | 2.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12.5 | 13.1 | 13.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 10 | 12 |
| 4.6 | 4.5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2.9 | 3.9 |
| 36% | 43% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 28% | 33% |
| 11.9 | 11.4 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 12.5 | 12.3 |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4 | 3.8 |
- Cincinnati have not yet lost a game at home.
- Cincinnati have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cincinnati have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Cincinnati have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Nashville SC have scored away.
- Cincinnati have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Cincinnati have the most clean sheets (9) in Major League Soccer
- Cincinnati have the most points (31) at home in Major League Soccer
- Cincinnati haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals (19) in Major League Soccer
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cincinnati | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 36 | 24 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 12 | 48 |
| 2 | New England | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 39 | 28 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 40 |
| 3 | Nashville SC | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 30 | 19 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 38 |
| 4 | Philadelphia Union | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 37 | 25 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 12 | 37 |
| 5 | Columbus Crew | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 43 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 36 |
| 6 | Atlanta United | 23 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 41 | 38 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 25 | 3 | 35 |
| 7 | Orlando City | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 32 | 27 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 34 |
| 8 | DC United | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 30 |
| 9 | Chicago Fire | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 30 | 31 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 18 | -1 | 29 |
| 10 | New York RB | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 21 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -2 | 26 |
| 11 | New York City | 23 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 24 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -4 | 26 |
| 12 | Charlotte | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 21 | -8 | 26 |
| 13 | Montreal Impact | 22 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 20 | 32 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 27 | -12 | 26 |
| 14 | Toronto | 23 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 32 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 21 | -14 | 19 |
| 15 | Inter Miami | 21 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 22 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 18 | -11 | 18 |
