Orlando City favourites for feisty fight facing Atlanta United

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 17.April
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Exploria Stadium (25527 seats)

The new season is about to kick off and the fans are tingling with excitement. It’s all to play for as Orlando City welcome Atlanta United for the opening game at Exploria Stadium. Read on!

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a CONCACAF Champions League game only four days ago.

Orlando City's stadium, Exploria Stadium, has a grass surface. Atlanta United have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Atlanta United when playing on grass; 12 wins, 2 draws and 19 losses from 33 matches. They have scored 45 goals in these games and conceded 63.

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Orlando City form and stats

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Orlando City 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 six wins, two draws and four defeats.

It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Orlando City, who have participated in six training matches. Orlando have won 4 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 1 game.

Last season, Orlando City's league statistics were 9 wins, 10 draws and 15 losses, resulting in a 11th position in the Major League Soccer. Over these 34 matches they scored 44 goals and conceded 52. Playing at home last season Orlando City managed 6-3-8 (win-draw-lost) with 26 goals and 29 conceded.

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Atlanta United form and stats

We have checked recent matches where Atlanta United have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eight games were one victory, zero draws and seven defeats.

Just as the home team, Atlanta have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 3 Atlanta United wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.

Let's have a look at how Atlanta United performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 18 victories, 4 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 58 and conceded 43 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 1 and lost 10 with 22/29 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Orlando City victories, two draws and six Atlanta United wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

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Total First Half Second Half
Orlando City Atlanta United
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
0 0 0 Played P 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
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% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
Orlando City Last season Atlanta United
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
29 16   Played P   10 23
13 9   Won W   2 6
10 5   Drew D   2 4
6 2   Lost L   6 13
48 31   Scored S   13 23
33 18   Conceded C   18 30
90% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 91%
83% 88%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   90% 65%
59% 62%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   60% 43%
34% 44%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   30% 17%
14% 19%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   20% 9%
83% 88%   BTTS BTTS   70% 48%
17% 12%   Clean Sheets C S   10% 26%
10% 6%   Failed to Score F T   20% 35%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
2.3 2.1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.4 2.1
4 3   Red cards R C   1 3
 
11.9 12.3   Shots (avg) S (   9.6 9.6
4.1 4.1   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.2 3.3
40% 48%   Goal Efficiency G E   41% 30%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atlanta United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Chicago Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Columbus Crew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 DC United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Inter Miami 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Montreal Impact 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Nashville SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 New England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 New York City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 New York RB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Orlando City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Philadelphia Union 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atlanta United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Chicago Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Columbus Crew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 DC United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Inter Miami 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Montreal Impact 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Nashville SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 New England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 New York City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 New York RB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Orlando City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Philadelphia Union 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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