Orlando City supporters put their faith in manager Ó. Pareja Gómez to deliver victory against Montreal Impact

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Wed 20.October
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Exploria Stadium (25527 seats)

4th spot in the Major League Soccer table for Orlando City so far, a competent showing. The home team ticketholders hope for more glory as 7th-placed Montreal Impact visit Exploria Stadium.

Insights:
  • Montreal Impact have won significantly less corners away then at home.

It's no vacation for neither Orlando nor Montreal Impact as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

It's quite the trip for Montreal Impact when visiting Orlando City as the cities are 2300 kilometers apart.

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Orlando City form and stats

Orlando City are steadily winning Major League Soccer games and points here at Exploria Stadium. 8 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 14 games.

Orlando City are returning here after visiting Cincinnati in a Major League Soccer game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Júnior Urso scored the goal(s). Midfield player Júnior Urso got a match rating of 7.83 in that game, the max score being 10. Urso scored one goal and had 53 successful passes (of 64 total).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting DC United in a game that was won 2-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Orlando handle that role? We have found 17 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are seven wins, five draws and five defeats.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Orlando, as the Major League Soccer home game vs New England is only four days away.

The Orlando fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 25 goals in 14 league matches. 14 goals have been conceded. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Montreal Impact form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Montreal Impact so far with only 13 points returning home. The records show 3-4-7 (win-draw-lose).

Montreal's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Philadelphia Union that finished 2-2. As mentioned above, Montreal Impact drew the match against Philadelphia Union. Manager W. Nancy brought on Ibrahim Sunusi to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Attacker Djordje Mihailovic got a player rating of 7.74 in the game. "Man of the match" Mihailovic served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times.

A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Atlanta United.

Montreal are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is five wins, one draw and four defeats. From a total of ten matches.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Major League Soccer trip to Toronto.

Montreal are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 14 games (in the league). 18 goals have been conceded by Montreal in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have met each other already this season, with the final score Orlando - Montreal Impact 2-4 registered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Orlando City three wins, one draw and Montreal Impact six victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Orlando City missing players

Montreal Impact missing players

Orlando City Montreal Impact
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
29 14 5 Played P 4 14 29
12 8 2 Won W 0 3 11
9 4 2 Drew D 3 4 8
8 2 1 Lost L 1 7 10
42 25 7 Scored S 5 15 42
41 14 6 Conceded C 6 18 39
93% 86% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 90%
79% 71% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 71% 72%
59% 57% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 43% 55%
31% 29% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 14% 28%
21% 29% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 14%
66% 57% 80% BTTS BTTS 100% 57% 62%
28% 43% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 21% 24%
14% 14% 20% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 24%
 
4.3 4.5 5.4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 3.7 4.7
5.1 5.3 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.1 4.2
2 1.2 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.1 2
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
12.1 12.8 11.8 Shots (avg) S ( 11.8 11.1 12.5
4.5 4.7 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.2 3.4 4.5
32% 38% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 31% 32%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Montreal Impact have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  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 30 20 6 4 59 36 15 11 3 1 30 17 15 9 3 3 29 19 23 66
2 Nashville SC 29 11 15 3 46 26 15 8 7 0 33 16 14 3 8 3 13 10 20 48
3 Philadelphia Union 29 12 10 7 40 29 15 9 3 3 22 10 14 3 7 4 18 19 11 46
4 Orlando City 29 12 9 8 42 41 14 8 4 2 25 14 15 4 5 6 17 27 1 45
5 Atlanta United 29 11 9 9 39 33 14 8 3 3 21 11 15 3 6 6 18 22 6 42
6 DC United 29 12 5 12 49 41 14 10 1 3 28 11 15 2 4 9 21 30 8 41
7 Montreal Impact 29 11 8 10 42 39 15 8 4 3 27 21 14 3 4 7 15 18 3 41
8 New York City 28 11 7 10 44 32 14 8 3 3 29 12 14 3 4 7 15 20 12 40
9 New York RB 28 10 7 11 34 30 14 6 5 3 17 11 14 4 2 8 17 19 4 37
10 Columbus Crew 29 10 7 12 36 39 14 8 3 3 27 18 15 2 4 9 9 21 -3 37
11 Inter Miami 29 9 5 15 25 47 14 5 2 7 17 31 15 4 3 8 8 16 -22 32
12 Chicago Fire 30 7 7 16 31 48 16 6 5 5 22 18 14 1 2 11 9 30 -17 28
13 Toronto 29 6 7 16 34 56 14 4 5 5 20 21 15 2 2 11 14 35 -22 25
14 Cincinnati 29 4 8 17 29 55 14 1 5 8 10 17 15 3 3 9 19 38 -26 20

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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.