Columbus Crew supporters put their faith in manager C. Porter to deliver victory against Montreal Impact

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 25.September
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)

Club members haven’t watched many victories this season, with Columbus Crew struggling in the 10th spot. The opposing Montreal Impact will believe to defend their higher league position in this fixture.

Insights:
  • Columbus Crew have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

The visiting Montreal Impact played their last game only three days ago, a Championship match. That game, against HFX Wanderers, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Montreal Impact.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Columbus Crew form and stats

The total Major League Soccer statistics playing at home this season for Columbus Crew are 6-3-3 (wins-draws-losses). Columbus has recorded two wins in a row here, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.

Columbus travelled for their previous game, a trip to New England that ended 1-1. Columbus Crew's goalie Eloy Room played a big part in securing a draw after 90 minutes against New England with a stunning six saves. The goalie Eloy Room was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.52 out of ten. Room stopped the opponent with six saves.

Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against New York RB.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Columbus handle that role? We have found 14 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are ten wins, three draws and one defeat.

Columbus have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 21 goals in 12 league matches. On the other hand, Columbus have conceded 17 goals.

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Montreal Impact form and stats

There's been little loot from Montreal Impact's travels as they have only collected 13 points from 13 away games in the Major League Soccer. Montreal Impact only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 4 draws.

Montreal Impact play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting HFX Wanderers.

Before that, Montreal Impact secured a home win against Chicago Fire with the score 2-0.

We have checked recent matches where Montreal Impact have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those ten games were five victories, one draw and four defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as Montreal Impact are hosting New England in the Major League Soccer only four days away.

The visiting Montreal Impact have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 14 goals from 13 games. 16 goals have been conceded by Montreal Impact in these games.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these parties meet on the pitch this campaign, as the history books show this recent match: Montreal Impact - Columbus Crew 0-0. Columbus-Montreal Impact H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Columbus Crew four wins, Montreal Impact three wins, three draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

ColumbusL. Zelarayán
L. Zelarayán
7 goals
Montreal ImpactM. Toye
M. Toye
7 goals
Columbus CrewG. Zardes
G. Zardes
5 goals

Columbus Crew missing players

Montreal Impact missing players

Columbus Crew Montreal Impact
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
26 12 4 Played P 2 13 25
8 6 1 Won W 1 3 10
7 3 1 Drew D 1 4 7
11 3 2 Lost L 0 6 8
30 21 7 Scored S 1 14 36
35 17 8 Conceded C 0 16 30
85% 83% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 92% 88%
62% 83% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 69% 68%
50% 75% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 38% 48%
31% 42% 75% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 15% 24%
19% 25% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 12%
54% 75% 75% BTTS BTTS 0% 54% 56%
23% 25% 25% Clean Sheets C S 100% 23% 28%
38% 17% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 31% 28%
 
3.9 4.4 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.7 4.4
5.2 4.6 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.5 4.3
1.7 1.8 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.2 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 4
 
11.2 13.8 12.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 11.2 12.4
3.5 4.9 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.4 4.4
33% 36% 41% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 32% 32%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Columbus Crew have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 27 18 5 4 51 32 13 10 2 1 26 14 14 8 3 3 25 18 19 59
2 Nashville SC 25 11 11 3 44 24 14 8 6 0 31 14 11 3 5 3 13 10 20 44
3 New York City 25 11 6 8 44 29 12 8 2 2 29 11 13 3 4 6 15 18 15 39
4 Orlando City 25 10 8 7 36 36 13 7 4 2 23 13 12 3 4 5 13 23 0 38
5 Montreal Impact 25 10 7 8 36 30 12 7 3 2 22 14 13 3 4 6 14 16 6 37
6 Atlanta United 25 9 9 7 35 30 13 7 3 3 20 11 12 2 6 4 15 19 5 36
7 Philadelphia Union 24 9 8 7 31 25 13 7 3 3 18 10 11 2 5 4 13 15 6 35
8 DC United 25 10 4 11 41 36 11 8 0 3 21 8 14 2 4 8 20 28 5 34
9 Inter Miami 25 9 5 11 25 40 14 5 2 7 17 31 11 4 3 4 8 9 -15 32
10 Columbus Crew 26 8 7 11 30 35 12 6 3 3 21 17 14 2 4 8 9 18 -5 31
11 New York RB 24 7 6 11 30 29 12 5 4 3 15 10 12 2 2 8 15 19 1 27
12 Chicago Fire 26 6 5 15 26 43 14 5 4 5 20 18 12 1 1 10 6 25 -17 23
13 Cincinnati 24 4 8 12 24 44 11 1 5 5 9 13 13 3 3 7 15 31 -20 20
14 Toronto 25 4 6 15 28 51 11 2 5 4 14 16 14 2 1 11 14 35 -23 18

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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.