Soccer betting preview: Cincinnati welcomes Toronto in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 12.September
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)

Major League Soccer: Tipsway are looking at an action-packed and important game involving Cincinnati and Toronto. Both teams need the win!

Insights:
  • Cincinnati have the fewest scored goals (21) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals (47) in Major League Soccer

This could be an interesting game with lots of fun and excitement as both squads are well refreshed since they last saw competitive action. Let's start!

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Cincinnati form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Major League Soccer this season. Cincinnati have only managed 0 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses from their games here. All in all it has been a very rough period for Cincinnati who hasn’t won a league-game in their last twelve attempts. Their previous win was against Toronto, 77 days ago.

The Cincinnati crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Inter Miami here in a Major League Soccer match. Luciano Acosta, an attacker, was the highest rated player for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 7.83 (out of 10). Acosta hit one key pass, dribled passed the opponent 5 of 5 times and had 36 successful passes (of 41 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Columbus Crew (2-3).

This is expected to be a close game, with Cincinnati perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Cincinnati as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Cincinnati has won zero of these, drawn nine and lost six.

There will be little rest for Cincinnati after this match as they are travelling to Atlanta United for a Major League Soccer game in only four days.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Cincinnati here in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 9 games). Cincinnati have conceded 11 in these home matches.

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Toronto form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Toronto so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-10 (win-draw-lose). It's looking increasingly bleak for Toronto who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. New York City was the last time a defeat was avoided.

Toronto are travelling again after losing away to Montreal Impact in their previous match (1-3). Midfielder Ifunanyachi Achara was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.45. Achara scored one goal and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 2 times. Toronto goalkeeper Quentin Westberg enjoyed a splendid shift versus Montreal Impact, but even with managing seven saves the loss could not be avoided.

Preceding that game, the 1-3 loss visiting Inter Miami's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Toronto in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Toronto, one draw and three defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Inter Miami in just three days.

Toronto find the net regularly in their away games. 14 goals from 13 away fixtures in the league. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Toronto concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.

Head 2 Head

The two teams involved played each other earlier this match year: Toronto - Cincinnati 0-2. Head to head totals (for the previous four meetings): Cincinnati won one game, zero matches ended with a tie and Toronto got three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / two

Top Goalscorers

CincinnatiB. Souza da Silva
B. Souza da Silva
5 goals
CincinnatiL. Acosta
L. Acosta
4 goals
TorontoJ. Osorio
J. Osorio
4 goals

Cincinnati missing players

Toronto missing players

Cincinnati Toronto
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 9 2 Played P 3 13 22
3 0 0 Won W 1 2 3
8 5 0 Drew D 0 1 6
10 4 2 Lost L 2 10 13
21 6 2 Scored S 3 14 26
38 11 4 Conceded C 6 33 47
86% 78% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 56% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 85% 91%
48% 22% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 69% 59%
33% 22% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 46% 41%
24% 11% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 31% 23%
48% 44% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 69% 73%
24% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 5%
43% 56% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 31% 23%
 
4 4.4 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.3 3.8 4.5
6.5 6.1 6 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 4.8 4.8
2.2 2.9 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.5 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
12.8 14.9 11 Shots (avg) S ( 7 9.2 9.5
3.9 4 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.2 3.4
26% 17% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 33% 35%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Cincinnati have the fewest points (5) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Cincinnati have the fewest scored goals (21) in Major League Soccer
  • Cincinnati have the fewest scored goals (6) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Cincinnati have the fewest scored goals in the second half (10) in Major League Soccer
  • Cincinnati have yet to win a game at home.
  • Toronto have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Toronto have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Toronto have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Toronto have scored at least twice as many goals away as Cincinnati have scored home.
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals (33) away in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals (47) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals in the first half (23) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals in the second half (24) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the the worst goal difference (-19) away in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the the worst goal difference (-21) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Toronto is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 England 24 16 4 4 45 28 11 9 1 1 23 12 13 7 3 3 22 16 17 52
2 Nashville SC 22 9 11 2 37 21 14 8 6 0 31 14 8 1 5 2 6 7 16 38
3 Orlando City 22 10 8 4 33 26 12 7 4 1 21 9 10 3 4 3 12 17 7 38
4 New York City 21 10 4 7 37 22 11 8 1 2 26 8 10 2 3 5 11 14 15 34
5 Philadelphia Union 23 8 8 7 28 24 12 6 3 3 15 9 11 2 5 4 13 15 4 32
6 Montreal Impact 22 8 7 7 30 27 10 6 3 1 20 13 12 2 4 6 10 14 3 31
7 DC United 22 9 3 10 35 32 10 7 0 3 18 8 12 2 3 7 17 24 3 30
8 Atlanta United 22 6 9 7 25 28 10 4 3 3 10 9 12 2 6 4 15 19 -3 27
9 Columbus Crew 23 7 6 10 27 32 11 5 3 3 19 16 12 2 3 7 8 16 -5 27
10 Inter Miami 21 7 5 9 22 31 11 4 2 5 15 22 10 3 3 4 7 9 -9 26
11 Chicago Fire 22 6 5 11 24 33 13 5 4 4 18 15 9 1 1 7 6 18 -9 23
12 New York RB 20 6 4 10 23 25 10 5 2 3 13 8 10 1 2 7 10 17 -2 22
13 Cincinnati 21 3 8 10 21 38 9 0 5 4 6 11 12 3 3 6 15 27 -17 17
14 Toronto 22 3 6 13 26 47 9 1 5 3 12 14 13 2 1 10 14 33 -21 15

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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.