Match preview Major League Soccer: Orlando City - Nashville SC

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 08.November
Match begins: 20:30 (UTC)

Orlando City have performed better than Nashville SC so far this season, but every game starts at 0-0. Here's all you need to know about the upcoming game:

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Orlando City form and stats

24 points is a decent return from 10 Major League Soccer games here for Orlando City. The data says 7 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses. The Orlando City fans aren't used to losing league-games here and will expect new points from this game. Orlando City has played 13 games in a row here without a defeat.

The Orlando supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer and win 2-1. In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Montreal Impact.

The victory against Columbus Crew came after Benji Michel's winning goal. The Orlando manager Ó. Pareja Gómez was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 70th minute.

Goals decide football matches and Orlando are scoring many of them at home; 22 on target from 10 league matches. From these home matches, Orlando have conceded only 9 goals.

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Nashville SC form and stats

3 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Nashville SC playing as the away team in the Major League Soccer this season. Nashville has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Nashville might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Dallas proved too strong as Nashville SC slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Chicago Fire.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Nashville SC as they have only managed to score 7 times from 11 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 11 goals have been conceded by Nashville in these games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Nashville SC - Orlando City 1-1 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Orlando City one win, one draw and Nashville SC zero victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Orlando CityC. Mueller
C. Mueller
10 goals
Orlando CityD. Dike
D. Dike
7 goals
OrlandoL. Almeida da Cunha
L. Almeida da Cunha
6 goals

Orlando City missing players

Nashville SC missing players

Orlando City Nashville SC
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
26 13 3 Played P 1 11 22
13 9 2 Won W 0 3 7
9 4 1 Drew D 0 3 8
4 0 0 Lost L 1 5 7
44 27 5 Scored S 0 7 21
26 11 2 Conceded C 2 11 20
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 73% 82%
81% 85% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 45% 55%
58% 62% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 27% 27%
31% 38% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 14%
12% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
81% 85% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 27% 41%
19% 15% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 45% 41%
12% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 55% 36%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 1.9 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.9 1.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
304 157 31 Total Shots T S 13 153 272
110 56 13 Shots on Target S O 2 49 88
40% 48% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 14% 24%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Nashville SC has the fewest matches over the total-line (6) in Major League Soccer
  • Nashville SC has the most matches under the total-line (16) in Major League Soccer
  • Orlando City has the most scored goals in the first half (23) in Major League Soccer
  • Orlando City have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Orlando City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Orlando City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Orlando City have scored more than double the goals of Nashville SC.

  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 22 13 5 4 42 20 10 9 1 0 25 6 12 4 4 4 17 14 22 44
2 Toronto 22 13 5 4 32 24 12 7 3 2 16 8 10 6 2 2 16 16 8 44
3 Orlando City 22 11 8 3 38 22 10 7 3 0 22 9 12 4 5 3 16 13 16 41
4 Columbus Crew 22 11 5 6 34 20 10 9 0 1 20 5 12 2 5 5 14 15 14 38
5 New York City 22 11 3 8 33 22 11 7 0 4 24 13 11 4 3 4 9 9 11 36
6 New England 22 8 8 6 26 23 10 2 5 3 10 11 12 6 3 3 16 12 3 32
7 New York RB 22 8 5 9 27 30 9 4 1 4 11 11 13 4 4 5 16 19 -3 29
8 Nashville SC 22 7 8 7 21 20 11 4 5 2 14 9 11 3 3 5 7 11 1 29
9 Montreal Impact 22 7 2 13 30 41 13 4 1 8 16 21 9 3 1 5 14 20 -11 23
10 Chicago Fire 22 5 8 9 30 35 11 5 3 3 20 14 11 0 5 6 10 21 -5 23
11 Atlanta United 22 6 4 12 22 28 13 4 2 7 10 12 9 2 2 5 12 16 -6 22
12 Inter Miami 22 6 3 13 23 34 9 4 2 3 12 13 13 2 1 10 11 21 -11 21
13 DC United 22 5 6 11 23 38 11 2 4 5 10 18 11 3 2 6 13 20 -15 21
14 Cincinnati 22 4 4 14 11 34 11 2 4 5 5 10 11 2 0 9 6 24 -23 16

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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.