Early sportsbook action insinuate New York City edge when meeting Charlotte

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Thu 18.August
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Red Bull Arena, Harrison (26765 seats)

Major League Soccer: High-profile versus not good enough, at least according to the table. New York City - Charlotte. Home win or a surprise?

Insights:
  • New York City have the most clean sheets (12) in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the fewest points (5) 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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New York City form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Red Bull Arena, Harrison as New York City have scored 30 goals to get 27 points from 12 games. The overall stats in the Major League Soccer are 8-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). Two home wins in a row for New York City bring valid hopes of a third.

New York City are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 2-3 away versus Inter Miami. Midfielder Moralez was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.85 (out of ten) in that game. Moralez hit five key passes and had 70 successful passes (of 87 total).

A defeat was the result before that one, 2-3 away at Columbus Crew.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for New York City as they are travelling to their away game against Chicago Fire in the Major League Soccer. That match is four days after this one.

Goals decide football matches and York are scoring many of them at home; 30 on target from 12 league matches.

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Charlotte form and stats

Charlotte have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Major League Soccer, after 1-2-10 (13 played). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Charlotte's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Charlotte are travelling again after losing away to Los Angeles FC in their previous match (0-5). As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Los Angeles FC was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind. Sobociński was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.32. The defender Sobociński won 1 of 6 duels.

A 2-3 loss hosting Chicago Fire before that.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 8 of this team's 10 latest league matches have ended with three or more goals.

A quick return to home after this game, as Charlotte are hosting Orlando City in the Major League Soccer only four days away.

The visitors have scored 10 goals from 13 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The Charlotte manager Lattanzio has some worries about the defense as 29 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

New York CityV. Castellanos Giménez
V. Castellanos Giménez
13 goals
CharlotteK. Świderski
K. Świderski
7 goals
New York CityH. Araujo dos Santos
H. Araujo dos Santos
6 goals

New York City missing players

Charlotte missing players

New York City Charlotte
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
24 12 3 Played P 2 13 25
12 8 2 Won W 0 1 9
6 3 1 Drew D 0 2 2
6 1 0 Lost L 2 10 14
45 30 8 Scored S 1 10 30
27 12 6 Conceded C 4 29 39
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 96%
67% 83% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 80%
46% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 77% 60%
33% 42% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 23% 24%
29% 33% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 15% 16%
42% 42% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 62% 48%
50% 50% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 24%
21% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 38% 32%
 
5.6 6.2 5.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4.8 4.9
5 4.4 3.7 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 5.6 5
2.5 2.4 3.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2 1.7
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
15.2 18.2 17.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 10.4 11.5
5.6 6.8 6.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 3.6 4.1
33% 37% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 21% 29%
 
11.2 10.1 11 Shots against (avg) S A 8.5 13.1 13.3
3.9 3.7 5.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.8 4.7
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Charlotte have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Charlotte have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Charlotte have the fewest points (5) away in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals (29) away in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the the worst goal difference (-19) away in Major League Soccer
  • New York City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • New York City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • New York City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Charlotte have scored away.
  • New York City have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (13) in Major League Soccer
  • New York City have the most clean sheets (12) in Major League Soccer

  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 25 13 9 3 45 19 13 8 5 0 30 7 12 5 4 3 15 12 26 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 24 12 6 6 45 27 12 8 3 1 30 12 12 4 3 5 15 15 18 42
4 New York RB 25 10 7 8 38 31 12 3 4 5 18 17 13 7 3 3 20 14 7 37
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 24 8 9 7 36 34 12 5 5 2 16 12 12 3 4 5 20 22 2 33
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 Chicago Fire 25 8 6 11 28 34 12 5 4 3 12 8 13 3 2 8 16 26 -6 30
11 Atlanta United 24 7 8 9 33 36 12 6 4 2 22 16 12 1 4 7 11 20 -3 29
12 Toronto 25 8 5 12 37 43 13 7 1 5 23 20 12 1 4 7 14 23 -6 29
13 Charlotte 25 9 2 14 30 39 12 8 0 4 20 10 13 1 2 10 10 29 -9 29
14 DC United 24 6 4 14 28 48 13 4 3 6 18 20 11 2 1 8 10 28 -20 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.