Major League Soccer: Inter Miami - Toronto preview and the hard facts

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 21.August
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)

Having a 3 point lead in the league table, Inter Miami regulars long to see their gladiators collect full points from this match hosting Toronto.

Insights:
  • Inter Miami have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Major League Soccer

Toronto could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Major League Soccer game only three sleeps ago.

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Inter Miami form and stats

When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Inter Miami have managed 7 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 13 games.

Inter Miami's last game was hosting New York City (placed 3rd) and winning 3-2. Pozuelo, a natural forward, was the declared top player for the side in that match, receiving a rating of 8.4 (out of 10). Pozuelo scored two goals, hit three key passes and had 43 successful passes (of 50 total).

Before that, Inter Miami played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Montreal Impact.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Inter Miami have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 12 matches with the results: Won 7, drawn 1 and lost 4.

The Inter fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 25 goals in 13 league matches. Inter Miami have conceded 22 from these games.

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Toronto form and stats

There's been little loot from Toronto's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 12 away games in the Major League Soccer. Toronto only have 1 win to counter their 7 defeats and 4 draws.

Toronto delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against New England (placed 6th) in their previous game. Which player has bagged at least one goal three matches in a row for the away side? The answer is Bernardeschi and that is quite the accomplishment! Criscito was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.22. The defender Criscito scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 7 of 9 duels.

A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Portland Timbers.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Toronto in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Toronto, 0 draws and 4 defeats.

The visiting Toronto have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 14 goals from 12 games. Toronto have conceded 23 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Inter Miami three wins, zero draws and Toronto one victory. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

TorontoJ. Osorio
J. Osorio
9 goals
Inter MiamiG. Higuaín
G. Higuaín
8 goals
Inter MiamiL. Campana Romero
L. Campana Romero
8 goals

Inter Miami missing players

Toronto missing players

Inter Miami Toronto
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
25 13 4 Played P 3 12 26
9 7 2 Won W 0 1 8
6 3 2 Drew D 1 4 6
10 3 0 Lost L 2 7 12
32 25 7 Scored S 1 14 39
41 22 5 Conceded C 4 23 45
92% 92% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 92% 96%
76% 92% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 75% 85%
52% 77% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 42% 65%
36% 46% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 38%
20% 31% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 15%
56% 77% 75% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 65%
20% 15% 25% Clean Sheets C S 33% 8% 8%
32% 15% 25% Failed to Score F T 67% 50% 31%
 
4.4 4.7 4.8 Corners for (avg) C F 6.7 4.2 5.2
6.2 6.4 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 5.1 5.1
2.3 2.7 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.8 1.9
4 1 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
12.1 13.6 13 Shots (avg) S ( 13.3 9.7 11.1
4.6 5.5 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.1 4.5
28% 35% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 8% 29% 34%
 
14.2 12.5 13.2 Shots against (avg) S A 15 16.7 14.5
4.8 3.9 3.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.7 6.4 5.6
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Inter Miami have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Inter Miami have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest matches under the total-line (5) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Philadelphia Union 26 13 9 4 45 20 13 8 5 0 30 7 13 5 4 4 15 13 25 48
2 Montreal Impact 25 13 4 8 43 41 12 6 2 4 20 16 13 7 2 4 23 25 2 43
3 New York City 25 12 6 7 46 30 13 8 3 2 31 15 12 4 3 5 15 15 16 42
4 New York RB 26 11 7 8 40 32 12 3 4 5 18 17 14 8 3 3 22 15 8 40
5 Columbus Crew 24 8 10 6 32 27 12 5 3 4 16 11 12 3 7 2 16 16 5 34
6 New England 25 8 10 7 38 36 12 5 5 2 16 12 13 3 5 5 22 24 2 34
7 Cincinnati 25 8 9 8 42 45 13 4 5 4 25 22 12 4 4 4 17 23 -3 33
8 Orlando City 25 9 6 10 28 36 12 5 0 7 15 23 13 4 6 3 13 13 -8 33
9 Inter Miami 25 9 6 10 32 41 13 7 3 3 25 22 12 2 3 7 7 19 -9 33
10 Charlotte 26 10 2 14 33 40 12 8 0 4 20 10 14 2 2 10 13 30 -7 32
11 Toronto 26 8 6 12 39 45 14 7 2 5 25 22 12 1 4 7 14 23 -6 30
12 Chicago Fire 25 8 6 11 28 34 12 5 4 3 12 8 13 3 2 8 16 26 -6 30
13 Atlanta United 25 7 8 10 34 38 13 6 4 3 23 18 12 1 4 7 11 20 -4 29
14 DC United 25 6 4 15 28 49 13 4 3 6 18 20 12 2 1 9 10 29 -21 22

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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.