Match week two of the Major League Soccer campaign and the contenders have had a few days to digest the first match. Here's our Orlando City - Cincinnati guide:
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Orlando City form and stats
Last season, Orlando City's league statistics were 14 wins, 6 draws and 14 losses, providing 6th place in the Major League Soccer. From these 34 matches they scored {44 goals} and gave away 53. Performing at home in the last season Orlando City managed 9-0-8 (win-draw-lost) with {26 goals} and 28 conceded. 1 victory, 0 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what Orlando City have to build on here at Orlando City Stadium in the Major League Soccer.
A nice win for Orlando last time playing, versus New York RB. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Torres scoring for the victors. Goalkeeper Gallese got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.13 out of ten. Gallese topped it up with a clean sheet.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Montreal Impact (0-2).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Orlando City as they are travelling to their away game against Tigres UANL in the CONCACAF Champions League. That match is three days after this one.
Orlando City has scored {1 goals} so far and conceded {0 goals} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Cincinnati form and stats
Let's have a look at how Cincinnati performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 12 victories, 13 draws and 9 defeats. In total they scored 64 and conceded {56 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 7 and lost 4 with 27/29 goals scored/conceded.
Cincinnati go into this game after a win, the home game against Houston Dynamo that ended 2-1. Cincinnati goalie Celentano was high and low in the Houston Dynamo game, contributing seven saves towards the victory.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Philadelphia Union's place.Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Orlando City three wins, two draws and Cincinnati two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  F. Torres Pérez 1 goals |   S. Santos Gomes 1 goals |  O. Nwobodo 1 goals |
Orlando City missing players
Cincinnati missing players
| Orlando City | Cincinnati | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 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% | 100% |
| 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% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 40% |
| 16 | 16 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Orlando City | Last season | Cincinnati | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 35 | 17 | Played | P | 19 | 36 | ||
| 14 | 9 | Won | W | 7 | 13 | ||
| 6 | 0 | Drew | D | 7 | 13 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Lost | L | 5 | 10 | ||
| 44 | 26 | Scored | S | 29 | 66 | ||
| 55 | 28 | Conceded | C | 31 | 58 | ||
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 97% | ||
| 74% | 76% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 84% | 86% | ||
| 54% | 71% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 58% | ||
| 26% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 26% | 42% | ||
| 17% | 18% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 25% | ||
| 57% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 68% | 69% | ||
| 26% | 24% | Clean Sheets | C S | 11% | 17% | ||
| 20% | 24% | Failed to Score | F T | 26% | 17% | ||
| 4.3 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.1 | 5.4 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 11.7 | 14.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.9 | 13 | ||
| 3.8 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 5.2 | ||
| 33% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 35% | ||
| 12.2 | 10.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.8 | 13.5 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.6 | 4.8 | ||
| 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 |
