Delightful dogfight as daring Colorado Rapids duel with determined Austin

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Tue 05.July
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park (19680 seats)

A quick peek at the Major League Soccer table suggest an edge to Austin when they go to Colorado Rapids. Nevertheless; let's wait for the game before select a winner!

Insights:
  • Colorado Rapids have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

The visiting Austin played their last game only four days ago, a Major League Soccer match. That game, against Charlotte, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Austin.

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Colorado Rapids form and stats

17 points is a decent return from 8 Major League Soccer games here at Dick's Sporting Goods Park for Colorado Rapids. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. When Colorado Rapids hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Real Salt Lake, Dallas and Los Angeles FC), they have won 1 of 2 matches!

In their previous game, the manager Fraser led his Colorado Rapids to a defeat away at Portland Timbers. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. Midfield player Rubio got a match rating of 8.22 in that game, the max score being 10. Rubio hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 32 successful passes (of 40 total).

Before that, Colorado played out a draw 1-1 when visiting New York City.

The Colorado Rapids fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 12 goals in 8 league matches. Colorado Rapids have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Austin form and stats

5-1-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Austin in their Major League Soccer matches away. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Austin, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Austin play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Charlotte. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Wolff when Gil scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 60th minute. Midfield player Fagúndez was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.41/10. Fagúndez hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 23 successful passes (of 25 total).

Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Dallas.

The visiting Austin have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 9 games. As opposed to that, Austin have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head statistics (for the prior three meetings): Colorado won two games, zero matches ended in a draw and Austin managed one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / one

Top Goalscorers

AustinS. Driussi
S. Driussi
9 goals
Colorado RapidsD. Rubio Kostner
D. Rubio Kostner
7 goals
AustinM. Urruti
M. Urruti
5 goals

Colorado Rapids missing players

Austin missing players

Colorado Rapids Austin
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
16 8 2 Played P 1 9 17
5 5 1 Won W 0 5 9
4 2 1 Drew D 1 1 4
7 1 0 Lost L 0 3 4
17 12 3 Scored S 2 13 32
21 4 1 Conceded C 2 13 20
94% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
81% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 71%
44% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 65%
19% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 33% 41%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 24%
44% 25% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 59%
38% 75% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 29%
25% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 11% 12%
 
4.9 4.9 5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.9 4.4
4.4 5.1 5 Corners against (avg) C A 9 6.1 4.8
2.8 2.6 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.1 2.5
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
12.9 13.6 16 Shots (avg) S ( 9 9.7 12.5
4.3 4.9 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.6 4.1
25% 31% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 41% 46%
 
11 10.1 8.5 Shots against (avg) S A 18 14 12.8
3.6 3 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 12 5.7 4.7
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Austin have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Austin haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Colorado Rapids have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Colorado Rapids have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Major League Soccer
  • Colorado Rapids have the most clean sheets (6) at home 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 Los Angeles FC 17 11 3 3 35 18 10 7 2 1 23 10 7 4 1 2 12 8 17 36
2 Austin 17 9 4 4 32 20 8 4 3 1 19 7 9 5 1 3 13 13 12 31
3 Real Salt Lake 17 8 5 4 20 19 8 6 2 0 13 4 9 2 3 4 7 15 1 29
4 Dallas 17 7 5 5 27 20 8 5 1 2 15 8 9 2 4 3 12 12 7 26
5 Nashville SC 17 7 5 5 22 19 6 2 3 1 8 6 11 5 2 4 14 13 3 26
6 LA Galaxy 16 7 3 6 20 19 9 4 1 4 12 13 7 3 2 2 8 6 1 24
7 Seattle Sounders 16 7 2 7 24 19 9 5 1 3 17 9 7 2 1 4 7 10 5 23
8 Portland Timbers 18 5 7 6 27 27 9 4 3 2 17 11 9 1 4 4 10 16 0 22
9 Houston Dynamo 17 6 3 8 21 21 9 4 3 2 12 8 8 2 0 6 9 13 0 21
10 Minnesota United 17 6 3 8 20 21 8 3 2 3 10 7 9 3 1 5 10 14 -1 21
11 Vancouver Whitecaps 17 6 3 8 18 28 8 4 3 1 11 8 9 2 0 7 7 20 -10 21
12 Colorado Rapids 16 5 4 7 17 21 8 5 2 1 12 4 8 0 2 6 5 17 -4 19
13 Sporting KC 18 4 4 10 16 32 8 3 2 3 8 8 10 1 2 7 8 24 -16 16
14 SJ Earthquakes 16 3 6 7 25 34 8 3 4 1 17 16 8 0 2 6 8 18 -9 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.