Balanced ball game between Orlando City and New York RB expected

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 26.February
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: Exploria Stadium (25527 seats)

Orlando City and New York RB fans have their finest supporter clothes on for this first game week of a new Major League Soccer season. Game on!

These teams have little in common geographically as New York RB have to travel 1700 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

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Orlando City form and stats

In the previous season, Orlando City's league statistics were 14 wins, 6 draws and 14 losses, providing 6th place in the Major League Soccer. In these 34 matches they scored {44 goals} and gave away 53. Performing as the home team in the previous season Orlando City generated 9-0-8 (win-draw-lost) with {26 goals} and 28 conceded.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Orlando City have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 14 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 4 and lost 6.

Orlando City have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and two practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 0 draws and 1 defeat. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Orlando City scored {3 goals} and let in {2 goals} during these two games.

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New York RB form and stats

Let's have a look at how New York RB performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 15 victories, 8 draws and 11 defeats. In total they scored 50 and conceded {41 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 9 - drew 3 and lost 5 with 24/19 goals scored/conceded.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with New York RB playing away and similar expectations, we found 15 relevant matches. Results were 5 New York RB wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats.

It's finally time to play a game of importance again as a long period of training has passed. York have played a number of friendly games in this period, resulting in 4 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats from four fixtures.

Head 2 Head

Orlando City-New York RB H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Orlando City four wins, New York RB four wins, two draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

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Total First Half Second Half
Orlando City New York RB
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
0 0 0 Played P 0 0 0
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 0
0 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0
Orlando City Last season New York RB
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
35 17   Played P   17 35
14 9   Won W   9 15
6 0   Drew D   3 8
15 8   Lost L   5 12
44 26   Scored S   24 51
55 28   Conceded C   19 43
97% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   94% 94%
74% 76%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   76% 77%
54% 71%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   41% 43%
26% 29%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   18% 20%
17% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   12% 14%
57% 53%   BTTS BTTS   47% 54%
26% 24%   Clean Sheets C S   29% 23%
20% 24%   Failed to Score F T   29% 29%
 
4.3 4.6   Corners for (avg) C F   4.9 5.2
4.5 3.6   Corners against (avg) C A   5.1 3.9
2.4 2.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.9 2.4
3 1   Red cards R C   3 5
 
11.7 14.4   Shots (avg) S (   12.4 13.7
3.8 4.7   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.7 4.9
33% 32%   Goal Efficiency G E   30% 30%
 
12.2 10.5   Shots against (avg) S A   10.1 9
4.1 3.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.5 3.4

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atlanta United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Charlotte 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Chicago Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Columbus Crew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 DC United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Inter Miami 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Montreal Impact 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Nashville SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 New England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 New York City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 New York RB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Orlando City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Philadelphia Union 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atlanta United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Charlotte 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Chicago Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Columbus Crew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 DC United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Inter Miami 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Montreal Impact 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Nashville SC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 New England 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 New York City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 New York RB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Orlando City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Philadelphia Union 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Toronto 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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