Preview: Philadelphia Union favourites when Charlotte come to town

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Wed 31.May
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Subaru Park (19178 seats)

The hosting team, Philadelphia Union, should be front runners in this fixture, but Charlotte have proven both skill and intrepidity. Learn more about the fixture!

Insights:
  • Philadelphia Union have the most points from losing position (10) in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals in the first half (12) 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.

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Philadelphia Union form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Subaru Park as Philadelphia Union have scored 13 goals to get 14 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Major League Soccer are 4-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Philadelphia enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at New York City's place. The match ended 3-1 with Gazdag and Carranza (2) scoring. Blake loved the game against New York City. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 3-1 victory. The striker Carranza was announced as "man of the match" for Philadelphia Union with a rating of 9.35/10. Carranza scored two goals, hit the woodwork once and hit one key pass.

Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against New England.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Philadelphia as they have a new game in only three days, a Major League Soccer match thankfully also at home. Montreal Impact are visiting.

Philadelphia Union have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Subaru Park with 13 goals in 7 league matches. From these home matches, Philadelphia Union have conceded only 5 goals.

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Charlotte form and stats

As the visiting team in Major League Soccer matches, Charlotte have produced an overall stat of 3-1-3 so far. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Charlotte, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Charlotte play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting LA Galaxy. Attacker Meram got a player rating of 8.04 in the game. "Man of the match" Meram served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 6 times.

A defeat, in the US Open Cup away at Birmingham Legion, before that.

Goal-happy betting people should observe that 8 of this team's 10 latest league matches have ended with three or more goals.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Charlotte manager Lattanzio as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Columbus Crew.

The visiting Charlotte have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 7 games. Charlotte have conceded 13 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Philadelphia Union-Charlotte H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Philadelphia Union one win, Charlotte one win, zero draws. one of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

PhiladelphiaD. Gazdag
D. Gazdag
7 goals
Philadelphia UnionJ. Carranza
J. Carranza
7 goals
Philadelphia UnionM. Uhre
M. Uhre
5 goals

Philadelphia Union missing players

Charlotte missing players

Philadelphia Union Charlotte
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 7 3 Played P 1 7 15
7 4 1 Won W 1 3 6
3 2 1 Drew D 0 1 3
4 1 1 Lost L 0 3 6
23 13 5 Scored S 3 10 20
15 5 3 Conceded C 1 13 25
86% 71% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
64% 57% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 80%
57% 57% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 86% 73%
36% 29% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 57% 40%
21% 29% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
50% 43% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 71% 67%
36% 57% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 13%
29% 29% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 20%
 
4.6 5 4.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.7 5
4.6 4.6 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5 4.7
2.5 2.3 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.3 2.7
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14 17.4 18.7 Shots (avg) S ( 6 9.6 10.4
4.5 4.9 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.7 3.5
37% 38% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 75% 38% 38%
 
11.7 10.6 10.3 Shots against (avg) S A 12 13.9 12.1
3.3 3 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 5 4.9
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Charlotte have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Charlotte have the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Philadelphia Union have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Philadelphia Union have the most points from losing position (10) in Major League Soccer

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Cincinnati 14 10 3 1 22 14 8 8 0 0 15 5 6 2 3 1 7 9 8 33
2 Nashville SC 14 7 4 3 19 9 8 5 2 1 13 4 6 2 2 2 6 5 10 25
3 New England 14 7 4 3 22 17 7 4 3 0 15 6 7 3 1 3 7 11 5 25
4 Philadelphia Union 14 7 3 4 23 15 7 4 2 1 13 5 7 3 1 3 10 10 8 24
5 Atlanta United 15 6 5 4 29 25 7 5 1 1 16 7 8 1 4 3 13 18 4 23
6 Charlotte 15 6 3 6 20 25 8 3 2 3 10 12 7 3 1 3 10 13 -5 21
7 Orlando City 14 5 5 4 17 17 8 2 3 3 7 9 6 3 2 1 10 8 0 20
8 DC United 15 5 4 6 20 18 7 3 2 2 12 8 8 2 2 4 8 10 2 19
9 Columbus Crew 13 5 3 5 25 17 7 4 2 1 18 6 6 1 1 4 7 11 8 18
10 Montreal Impact 14 6 0 8 13 22 6 5 0 1 10 3 8 1 0 7 3 19 -9 18
11 Chicago Fire 14 3 7 4 21 24 8 2 6 0 13 11 6 1 1 4 8 13 -3 16
12 New York City 14 4 4 6 16 19 6 4 1 1 11 8 8 0 3 5 5 11 -3 16
13 New York RB 15 3 7 5 10 13 7 3 3 1 7 5 8 0 4 4 3 8 -3 16
14 Toronto 15 3 7 5 15 19 8 3 4 1 10 8 7 0 3 4 5 11 -4 16
15 Inter Miami 14 5 0 9 14 18 7 4 0 3 11 9 7 1 0 6 3 9 -4 15

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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.