Major League Soccer forecast and preview: New York RB odds-on expected to overcome Nashville SC

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 05.March
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: Red Bull Arena, Harrison (26765 seats)

It's the second opportunity for points this campaign as New York RB and Nashville SC bump heads at Red Bull Arena, Harrison.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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New York RB form and stats

The season before, New York RB's league statistics were 15 wins, 8 draws and 11 losses, producing 3rd place in the Major League Soccer. In these 34 matches they scored {50 goals} and gave away 41. Playing as the home side in the former season New York RB generated 6-5-6 (win-draw-lost) with {26 goals} and 22 conceded.

York faced defeat in their previous match, away at Orlando City (0-1). Midfield player Amaya got a match rating of 7.83 in that game, the max score being 10. Amaya hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Cincinnati (1-2).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does New York RB handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

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Nashville SC form and stats

Let's have a look at how Nashville SC performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 13 victories, 11 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 52 and conceded {41 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 7 - drew 5 and lost 5 with 22/20 goals scored/conceded.

Nashville SC are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the game against New York City (placed 12th). Defender Zimmerman was the best team player with a rating of 8.04. Zimmerman scored one goal and won 6 of 9 duels.

Prior to that match, the Nashville SC manager Smith faced defeat when travelling to LA Galaxy and losing 0-1.

Nashville are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 4 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 13 matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): New York RB two wins, one draw and Nashville SC zero victories. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Nashville SCW. Zimmerman
W. Zimmerman
1 goals
Nashville SCJ. Shaffelburg
J. Shaffelburg
1 goals

New York RB missing players

Nashville SC missing players

New York RB Nashville SC
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 2
1 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
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% 100%
100% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
3 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 8
4 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 3
3 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
16 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 10
4 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 5
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 40%
 
6 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 9
1 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 2
New York RB Last season Nashville SC
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
35 18   Played P   18 35
15 6   Won W   7 13
8 5   Drew D   5 11
12 7   Lost L   6 11
51 27   Scored S   22 52
43 24   Conceded C   21 42
94% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 97%
77% 78%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   72% 80%
43% 44%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   39% 51%
20% 22%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   22% 26%
14% 17%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   6% 9%
54% 61%   BTTS BTTS   56% 63%
23% 17%   Clean Sheets C S   22% 26%
29% 28%   Failed to Score F T   22% 14%
 
5.2 5.4   Corners for (avg) C F   3.6 4.7
3.9 2.8   Corners against (avg) C A   5.9 4.8
2.4 2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.3 2.1
5 2   Red cards R C   1 2
 
13.7 14.8   Shots (avg) S (   10.7 13
4.9 5   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.8 4.8
30% 30%   Goal Efficiency G E   32% 31%
 
9 8.1   Shots against (avg) S A   13.9 12.9
3.4 3.4   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.5 4.4

  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 1 1 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
2 Inter Miami 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
3 Nashville SC 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 DC United 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Cincinnati 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 Atlanta United 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
7 New England 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
8 Orlando City 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
9 Toronto 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
10 New York RB 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
11 Charlotte 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
12 New York City 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
13 Montreal Impact 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
14 Columbus Crew 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 -3 0
15 Chicago Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Read more about Major League Soccer

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.