Delightful dogfight as daring Nashville SC duel with determined Montreal Impact

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Thu 19.May
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: First Tennessee Park

Montreal Impact cannot ask for any easy points from their host Nashville SC in this Major League Soccer match. Here's your full match preview!

Insights:
  • Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Major League Soccer
  • Montreal Impact have the most points (11) away in Major League Soccer

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Nashville SC form and stats

Only two Major League Soccer home games for Nashville SC so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.

The club members are hoping that Nashville will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the game against Houston Dynamo (placed 6th). Midfielder Mukhtar was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.14 (out of ten) in that game. Mukhtar hit one key pass and had 21 successful passes (of 22 total).

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 Nashville SC have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 8 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 0 and lost 0.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Atlanta United are coming to town in three days.

At First Tennessee Park, Nashville SC has the goal stats of 3-1 (for/against) from 2 league fixtures.

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Montreal Impact form and stats

As the visiting team matches, Montreal Impact, who have the most points (11) away in Major League Soccer, have produced an overall stat of 3-2-2 so far.

It's the second away game in a row for Montreal Impact, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Charlotte last time out. Attacker Kamara got a player rating of 7.74 in the game. "Man of the match" Kamara served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times.

Before that, Montreal secured a home win against Orlando City with the score 4-1.

Montreal Impact are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

After this away game Montreal return home for a Major League Soccer game against Real Salt Lake. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Montreal Impact has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 13 goals from 7 games.

Head 2 Head

Stats for the last four meetings involving these two sides are: two wins for Nashville SC, two draws and zero wins for Montreal Impact. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

Montreal ImpactD. Mihailovic
D. Mihailovic
6 goals
NashvilleC. Sapong
C. Sapong
3 goals
Montreal ImpactJ. Torres
J. Torres
3 goals

Nashville SC missing players

Montreal Impact missing players

Nashville SC Montreal Impact
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 2 0 Played P 0 7 11
4 1 0 Won W 0 3 6
3 1 0 Drew D 0 2 2
4 0 0 Lost L 0 2 3
11 3 0 Scored S 0 13 22
12 1 0 Conceded C 0 14 19
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
73% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
27% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 57% 73%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 36%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 43% 36%
45% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 71% 82%
27% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 9%
27% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 9%
 
4.6 9.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5 5.1
6.5 4.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 4.8
2.1 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3.3 3.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.5 18 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 11.6 13.1
4.2 7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.3 5
24% 21% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 43% 40%
 
12.7 8.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 13 11.2
3.8 3.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4.7 4.4
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • All of Montreal Impact's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Nashville SC's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Montreal Impact have scored at least twice as many goals away as Nashville SC have scored home.
  • Montreal Impact have the most points (11) away in Major League Soccer
  • Montreal Impact haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Nashville SC have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Major League Soccer
  • Nashville SC have the fewest points (4) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Nashville SC have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Nashville SC have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Nashville SC have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Nashville SC haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 11 7 2 2 23 12 6 4 2 0 14 5 5 3 0 2 9 7 11 23
2 Dallas 11 6 4 1 19 8 6 5 1 0 14 4 5 1 3 1 5 4 11 22
3 Austin 11 6 2 3 23 11 6 4 1 1 15 3 5 2 1 2 8 8 12 20
4 LA Galaxy 11 6 1 4 12 10 5 3 0 2 5 5 6 3 1 2 7 5 2 19
5 Real Salt Lake 12 5 4 3 12 16 5 4 1 0 8 4 7 1 3 3 4 12 -4 19
6 Houston Dynamo 11 4 3 4 14 13 7 3 3 1 10 7 4 1 0 3 4 6 1 15
7 Colorado Rapids 11 4 3 4 13 12 6 4 2 0 10 1 5 0 1 4 3 11 1 15
8 Portland Timbers 12 3 6 3 18 18 6 2 3 1 12 8 6 1 3 2 6 10 0 15
9 Nashville SC 11 4 3 4 11 12 2 1 1 0 3 1 9 3 2 4 8 11 -1 15
10 Minnesota United 11 4 2 5 12 12 6 3 1 2 9 5 5 1 1 3 3 7 0 14
11 Seattle Sounders 9 3 1 5 12 14 4 2 0 2 6 5 5 1 1 3 6 9 -2 10
12 SJ Earthquakes 11 2 4 5 19 26 6 2 3 1 13 13 5 0 1 4 6 13 -7 10
13 Sporting KC 12 2 3 7 10 23 5 2 2 1 5 4 7 0 1 6 5 19 -13 9
14 Vancouver Whitecaps 10 2 2 6 10 20 5 2 2 1 7 6 5 0 0 5 3 14 -10 8

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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.