Orlando City favourites for feisty fight facing Inter Miami

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 28.August
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: Exploria Stadium (25527 seats)

Orlando City look forward to facing Inter Miami with expectations of taking all three points. Can they? Check our match guide!

Insights:
  • Orlando City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Inter Miami have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer

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.

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Orlando City form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Exploria Stadium as Orlando City have scored 18 goals to get 21 points from 10 games. The overall stats in the Major League Soccer are 6-3-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Orlando City's last game was hosting Chicago Fire (placed 12th) and winning 1-0. Mason Stajduhar, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 8.41 out of 10 in that game. Stajduhar stopped the opponent with five saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.

1-1 away at Nashville SC before that.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Orlando's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won three matches, drawn one and lost one.

A decent goal production from Orlando in their home games so far, with 18 goals from 10 league matches. Orlando are not conceding a lot of goals here at Exploria Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 10 matches.

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Inter Miami form and stats

There's been little loot from Inter Miami's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 8 away games in the Major League Soccer. Inter Miami only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 2 draws.

Inter Miami are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the Major League Soccer against Toronto (placed 14th). Defender Leandro González Pírez was the best team player with a rating of 8.62. Pírez served one assist, hit two key passes and won 5 of 7 duels.

That result followed a home victory 3-2 versus Chicago Fire.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Inter Miami playing away, we found two games. Results were zero away wins, one draw and one home win.

The attacking power of Inter when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 8 league matches away. Inter have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This isn't the first time these two teams face each other this season, as the statistics show this recent fixture: Orlando - Inter Miami 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Orlando three wins, one draw and Inter Miami two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Orlando CityL. Almeida da Cunha
L. Almeida da Cunha
8 goals
Inter MiamiG. Higuaín
G. Higuaín
8 goals
Orlando CityB. Michel
B. Michel
4 goals

Orlando City missing players

Inter Miami missing players

Orlando City Inter Miami
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 10 4 Played P 2 8 19
9 6 3 Won W 1 2 6
7 3 0 Drew D 1 2 4
4 1 1 Lost L 0 4 9
30 18 6 Scored S 2 6 21
24 7 2 Conceded C 1 9 31
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 88% 95%
80% 70% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 79%
50% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 25% 53%
25% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 26%
20% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 21%
65% 50% 25% BTTS BTTS 50% 38% 58%
30% 50% 75% Clean Sheets C S 50% 12% 5%
10% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 62% 42%
 
4.3 4.2 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.1 5
5.2 5.1 7 Corners against (avg) C A 7.5 6.4 4
1.9 1.2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.9 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
12.1 13 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 6 6.2 10.2
4.7 5.1 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.2 3.5
32% 35% 30% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 33% 32%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Inter Miami have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer
  • Inter Miami have the most points from losing position (14) in Major League Soccer
  • Inter Miami have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Orlando City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Orlando City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Inter Miami have scored away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 New England 22 15 4 3 44 26 11 9 1 1 23 12 11 6 3 2 21 14 18 49
2 Orlando City 20 9 7 4 30 24 10 6 3 1 18 7 10 3 4 3 12 17 6 34
3 Nashville SC 20 7 11 2 32 20 13 7 6 0 28 13 7 0 5 2 4 7 12 32
4 Philadelphia Union 21 8 8 5 27 20 11 6 3 2 15 8 10 2 5 3 12 12 7 32
5 New York City 19 9 4 6 34 19 10 7 1 2 24 8 9 2 3 4 10 11 15 31
6 Montreal Impact 21 7 7 7 27 26 9 5 3 1 17 12 12 2 4 6 10 14 1 28
7 DC United 21 8 3 10 32 31 9 6 0 3 15 7 12 2 3 7 17 24 1 27
8 Atlanta United 21 6 9 6 25 26 9 4 3 2 10 7 12 2 6 4 15 19 -1 27
9 Columbus Crew 21 6 6 9 22 27 10 4 3 3 16 14 11 2 3 6 6 13 -5 24
10 New York RB 19 6 4 9 23 24 9 5 2 2 13 7 10 1 2 7 10 17 -1 22
11 Inter Miami 19 6 4 9 21 31 11 4 2 5 15 22 8 2 2 4 6 9 -10 22
12 Chicago Fire 21 5 5 11 23 33 13 5 4 4 18 15 8 0 1 7 5 18 -10 20
13 Cincinnati 19 3 8 8 19 34 8 0 5 3 6 10 11 3 3 5 13 24 -15 17
14 Toronto 21 3 6 12 25 44 9 1 5 3 12 14 12 2 1 9 13 30 -19 15

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