After five games we know a little more about the qualities of New England and Columbus Crew in this fresh Major League Soccer season. Read our match preview!
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.
This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike Columbus Crew's home stadium. The visitors last ten games on artifical turf have ended in 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses.
These teams have little in common geographically as Columbus Crew have to travel 1200 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
New England form and stats
Perfect Major League Soccer season at home so far for New England 2 wins from 2 appearances.
The home team returns to Gillette Stadium after being equal after 90 minutes with Philadelphia Union (placed 9th) on their last time out; the Major League Soccer game ended 1-1. Midfielder Carles Gil was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.22 (out of ten) in that game. Gil hit six key passes, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 47 successful passes (of 57 total). The hometeam coach B. Arena made a successful contribution in the game against Philadelphia Union, bringing on Teal Bunbury who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw.
Heartbreak before that as England lost 0-2 at Nashville SC's place.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does New England handle that role? We have found twelve games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, five draws and two defeats.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the New England at home in the league. 3 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Columbus Crew form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Major League Soccer for Columbus Crew with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
Columbus are travelling again after losing away to Toronto in their previous match (0-2). Defender Saad Abdul-Salaam was the best team player with a rating of 7.4. Abdul-Salaam hit one key pass and won 2 of 2 duels.
Before that, Columbus Crew secured a home win against DC United with the score 3-1.Columbus are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, three draws and one defeat. From a total of four matches.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Columbus Crew has managed 0 goals and let in 2 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two New England victories, one draw and seven Columbus Crew wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Bye 1 goals |  C. Gil de Pareja Vicent 1 goals |  G. Bou 1 goals |
New England missing players
Columbus Crew missing players
| New England | Columbus Crew | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 80% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 40% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 60% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 20% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.4 | 3 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.6 | 9.5 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| 3.6 | 3.5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 1 | 2.5 |
| 33% | 43% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| New England | Last season | Columbus Crew | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 28 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 28 | ||
| 11 | 3 | Won | W | 2 | 16 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 6 | ||
| 33 | 12 | Scored | S | 14 | 46 | ||
| 29 | 12 | Conceded | C | 15 | 24 | ||
| 86% | 73% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 75% | ||
| 39% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 54% | ||
| 14% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 21% | ||
| 7% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 54% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 50% | ||
| 25% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 43% | ||
| 36% | 45% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 11% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14.8 | 17.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 11.3 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 4.1 | ||
| 25% | 19% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 40% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Montreal Impact | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | New England | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 3 | New York City | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 |
| 4 | Orlando City | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | New York RB | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Nashville SC | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Atlanta United | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Columbus Crew | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | Philadelphia Union | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -1 | 5 |
| 10 | Inter Miami | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -2 | 5 |
| 11 | Toronto | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 4 |
| 12 | DC United | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -5 | 3 |
| 13 | Chicago Fire | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 1 |
| 14 | Cincinnati | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | -8 | 1 |