Major League Soccer: Two teams in fairly good form get together for this game. Nashville SC might have a wee advantage with their 2nd place in the standings?
- Nashville SC have the most clean sheets (13) in Major League Soccer
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.
Orlando City form and stats
Orlando City have played 14 Major League Soccer games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 7-5-2 (wins-draws-losses). Two draws in a row at home now for Orlando.
In their previous game, the manager Ó. Pareja Gómez led his Orlando to a defeat in the Major League Soccer match away at Columbus Crew. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Exploria Stadium. Tesho Akindele, who usually features in attack, was the top player for the team in that fixture, earning a rating of 7.1 (out of 10). Akindele served one assist and hit one key pass.
In the match before that, Orlando hosted New England and drew the game 2-2.The Orlando fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 21 goals in 14 league matches. Orlando have conceded 15 in these home matches.
Nashville SC form and stats
Playing away, Nashville SC have won 3 games, drawn 7 and suffered 3 defeats in the Major League Soccer this season.
Nashville play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 6-3 victory visiting Cincinnati (placed 14th). What a finish in the last match, as Nashville came back from being down 0-2 and secured a very satisfying victory through Charles Sapong's goal in the 90th minute. An off the wall match with plenty of goals last time out for Nashville, as mentioned above. 9 goals in that fixture, will this match be as full of joy? Randall Leal got a match rating of 9.11 in that game, top player of the team. Leal scored two goals, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 26 successful passes (of 31 total).
A 0-1 defeat away at Philadelphia Union before that.The visiting Nashville SC have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 13 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (10 so far).
Head 2 Head
The most up to date past meeting featuring both these teams is the Nashville SC - Orlando City 2-2 played previously this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last five matches): Orlando one win, three draws and Nashville SC one victory. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  H. Mukhtar 14 goals |  C. Sapong 12 goals |   L. Almeida da Cunha 9 goals |
Orlando City missing players
Nashville SC missing players
| Orlando City | Nashville SC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 32 | 16 | 4 | Played | P | 5 | 16 | 32 |
| 12 | 8 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| 9 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 47 | 28 | 7 | Scored | S | 4 | 19 | 53 |
| 47 | 17 | 8 | Conceded | C | 4 | 14 | 31 |
| 94% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 60% | 62% | 78% |
| 81% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 50% | 66% |
| 59% | 56% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 20% | 31% | 44% |
| 34% | 31% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 19% | 34% |
| 22% | 25% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 16% |
| 69% | 62% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 20% | 38% | 53% |
| 25% | 38% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 60% | 50% | 41% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 60% | 50% | 28% |
| 4.4 | 4.7 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.2 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
| 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.3 | 13.1 | 11.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 10.7 | 13.5 |
| 4.3 | 4.5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.6 | 3.8 | 5.3 |
| 34% | 39% | 58% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 31% | 31% |
- Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals (10) away in Major League Soccer
- Nashville SC have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (15) in Major League Soccer
- Nashville SC have the most clean sheets (13) in Major League Soccer
- Nashville SC have the most clean sheets (8) away in Major League Soccer
- Nashville SC 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 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 61 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 19 | 25 | 69 |
| 2 | Nashville SC | 28 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 46 | 27 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 33 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 19 | 45 |
| 3 | Philadelphia Union | 28 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 37 | 29 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 8 | 43 |
| 4 | Montreal Impact | 29 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 43 | 38 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 42 |
| 5 | Orlando City | 28 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 37 | 41 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 26 | -4 | 42 |
| 6 | New York RB | 27 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 32 | 25 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 40 |
| 7 | Atlanta United | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 38 | 33 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 5 | 39 |
| 8 | DC United | 28 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 47 | 39 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 13 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 26 | 8 | 38 |
| 9 | New York City | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 40 | 30 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 9 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 37 |
| 10 | Columbus Crew | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 36 | 38 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 22 | -2 | 37 |
| 11 | Inter Miami | 28 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 26 | 43 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 28 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 15 | -17 | 35 |
| 12 | Chicago Fire | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 35 | 49 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 31 | -14 | 31 |
| 13 | Toronto | 28 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 32 | 57 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 14 | 38 | -25 | 23 |
| 14 | Cincinnati | 28 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 31 | 56 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 37 | -25 | 19 |