Major League Soccer preview: Can Orlando City edge out victory against LA Galaxy?

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Date: Fri 24.May
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Orlando City Stadium (25527 seats)

The visiting LA Galaxy side should be favourites in this visit to Orlando City, as the away team holds a 7 point advantage from their 13 league games this season.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 4200 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Orlando City form and stats

Orlando City, who have the most conceded goals (13) at home in Major League Soccer, have collected 10 points from their home games so far after 3-1-3.

Orlando City's last game was hosting Cincinnati and winning 5-1. Heartbreak before that as Orlando City lost 1-2 at Seattle Sounders's place.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Orlando City handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The win/draw/lost stats in these games are W1-D1-L3.

The Orlando City manager J. O'Connor has got the team scoring with 14 from 7 home games. Orlando City have conceded 13 from these games.

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LA Galaxy form and stats

Playing away, LA Galaxy have won 1 game, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats so far this season. With the LA Galaxy losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking. LA Galaxy has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

The manager Guillermo Barros Schelotto was unhappy after their last game, a Major League Soccer match played at their home ground Orlando City Stadium. LA Galaxy suffered a 0-1 loss to Colorado Rapids. A 0-2 loss hosting New York City before that.

We have checked recent matches where LA Galaxy have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eight games were W3-D1-L4.

LA Galaxy are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 5 games. In the opposite end, LA Galaxy have conceded 8 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last four games between these two teams, there's 2 Orlando City victories, 0 draws and 2 LA Galaxy wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 0 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Z. Ibrahimović
9 goals / 2 assists
Nani
7 goals / 1 assists
T. Akindele
4 goals / 1 assists

Orlando City missing players

LA Galaxy missing players

Orlando City LA Galaxy
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
13 7 2 Played 1 5 13
4 3 0 Won 0 1 7
3 1 0 Drew 0 1 1
6 3 2 Lost 1 3 5
19 14 2 Scored 1 5 18
20 13 5 Conceded 3 8 17
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 100% 80% 92%
77% 86% 100% Over 1.5 100% 80% 85%
54% 71% 100% Over 2.5 100% 40% 54%
31% 57% 50% Over 3.5 100% 40% 23%
15% 29% 0% Over 4.5 0% 20% 15%
69% 71% 100% BTTS 100% 40% 54%
15% 14% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 40% 23%
15% 14% 0% Failed To Score 0% 40% 31%
 
4.7 6.3 4.5 Corners For (avg) 7 5.6 6.2
4.8 3.7 3 Corners Against (avg) 3 5.4 5
1.8 1.7 2.5 Yellow Cards (avg) 2 2.2 1.9
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Orlando City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Orlando City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as LA Galaxy have scored away.
  • Orlando City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Orlando City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Orlando City
All US Open Cup Major League Soccer Club Friendlies
All Home Away
27-04-19 MLS New York City 1 - 1 Orlando City
04-05-19 MLS Orlando City 0 - 2 Toronto
12-05-19 MLS Atlanta United 1 - 0 Orlando City
16-05-19 MLS Seattle Sounders 2 - 1 Orlando City
19-05-19 MLS Orlando City 5 - 1 Cincinnati
24-05-19 MLS Orlando City 23:00 LA Galaxy
01-06-19 MLS Montreal Impact 20:00 Orlando City
27-06-19 MLS DC United - Orlando City
29-06-19 MLS Columbus Crew 23:30 Orlando City
03-07-19 MLS Orlando City 23:30 Philadelphia Union
LA Galaxy
All US Open Cup Major League Soccer Club Friendlies
All Home Away
29-04-19 MLS LA Galaxy 2 - 1 Real Salt Lake
04-05-19 MLS New York RB 3 - 2 LA Galaxy
08-05-19 MLS Columbus Crew 3 - 1 LA Galaxy
11-05-19 MLS LA Galaxy 0 - 2 New York City
20-05-19 MLS LA Galaxy 0 - 1 Colorado Rapids
24-05-19 MLS Orlando City 23:00 LA Galaxy
30-05-19 MLS Sporting KC 00:30 LA Galaxy
03-06-19 MLS LA Galaxy 02:30 New England
22-06-19 MLS Cincinnati 23:30 LA Galaxy
30-06-19 MLS SJ Earthquakes 02:00 LA Galaxy

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Philadelphia Union 13 7 3 3 23 12 7 5 1 1 17 5 6 2 2 2 6 7 11 24
2 DC United 14 7 3 4 18 13 7 4 1 2 11 7 7 3 2 2 7 6 5 24
3 Montreal Impact 14 6 3 5 15 19 4 2 1 1 2 2 10 4 2 4 13 17 -4 21
4 Atlanta United 12 6 2 4 13 9 6 3 2 1 7 4 6 3 0 3 6 5 4 20
5 New York City 11 4 6 1 15 12 5 1 4 0 4 3 6 3 2 1 11 9 3 18
6 New York RB 12 5 2 5 17 14 7 4 0 3 11 8 5 1 2 2 6 6 3 17
7 Toronto 12 5 2 5 22 20 7 3 2 2 15 11 5 2 0 3 7 9 2 17
8 Chicago Fire 13 4 4 5 20 17 7 4 2 1 16 7 6 0 2 4 4 10 3 16
9 Columbus Crew 14 5 1 8 12 19 8 4 1 3 9 9 6 1 0 5 3 10 -7 16
10 Orlando City 13 4 3 6 19 20 7 3 1 3 14 13 6 1 2 3 5 7 -1 15
11 New England 14 3 3 8 14 31 7 3 0 4 6 11 7 0 3 4 8 20 -17 12
12 Cincinnati 13 3 2 8 11 23 5 2 1 2 6 7 8 1 1 6 5 16 -12 11

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