Major League Soccer forecast and data: Dallas moderate favoured to subdue Minnesota United

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 26.February
Match begins: 01:30 (UTC)
Venue: Toyota Stadium (20500 seats)

It's the first fixture of the new season for Dallas and Minnesota United. The canvas is empty, the possibilities infinite.

It's quite the trip for Minnesota United when visiting Dallas as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.

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Dallas form and stats

The previous season, Dallas's league results were 14 wins, 11 draws and 9 losses, ending with 3rd position in the Major League Soccer. From these 34 matches they scored {48 goals} and gave away 37. Appearing as the home side in the previous season Dallas produced 10-4-3 (win-draw-lost) with {28 goals} and 15 conceded.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Dallas have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 23 games) they have won 10 times, drawn 9 and lost 4.

Dallas have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and five practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Dallas scored {2 goals} and let in {6 goals} during these five games.

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Minnesota United form and stats

Let's have a look at how Minnesota United performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 6th position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 6 draws and 14 defeats. In total they scored 48 and conceded {51 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 1 and lost 10 with 21/31 goals scored/conceded.

Minnesota United are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 6 wins, 5 draws and 9 defeats. From a total of 20 matches.

It's a day of discovery for Minnesota United as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Minnesota United have played six with the results W1-D1-L4 (win-draw-lost). In these games Minnesota has scored {4 goals} and conceded 11 times.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Dallas victories, two draws and four Minnesota United wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

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Total First Half Second Half
Dallas Minnesota United
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
0 0 0 Played P 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0
Dallas Last season Minnesota United
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
36 18   Played P   18 35
15 11   Won W   6 14
11 4   Drew D   1 6
10 3   Lost L   11 15
51 30   Scored S   22 49
40 16   Conceded C   33 53
94% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
75% 83%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   83% 83%
50% 44%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   67% 57%
28% 17%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   28% 23%
6% 11%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   17% 14%
61% 67%   BTTS BTTS   67% 63%
22% 22%   Clean Sheets C S   6% 14%
22% 11%   Failed to Score F T   28% 23%
 
4.3 5.4   Corners for (avg) C F   4.3 5.2
4.9 4.6   Corners against (avg) C A   6.4 5.7
2.2 1.7   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.6 2.3
3 0   Red cards R C   1 2
 
11.8 13.8   Shots (avg) S (   10.8 12.5
4.1 5.2   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.7 4.4
34% 32%   Goal Efficiency G E   33% 32%
 
12.2 9.1   Shots against (avg) S A   16.4 14.3
3.9 3.2   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.6 4.9

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Austin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Colorado Rapids 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Houston Dynamo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 LA Galaxy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Los Angeles FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Minnesota United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Portland Timbers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Real Salt Lake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Saint Louis City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Seattle Sounders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 SJ Earthquakes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Sporting KC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Vancouver Whitecaps 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Austin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Colorado Rapids 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Houston Dynamo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 LA Galaxy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Los Angeles FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Minnesota United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Portland Timbers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Real Salt Lake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Saint Louis City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Seattle Sounders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 SJ Earthquakes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Sporting KC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Vancouver Whitecaps 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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