Major League Soccer: Two squads in good form get together for this fixture. New England hold a wee upper hand with their 2nd position in the league table?
- New England have the most points (10) away in Major League Soccer
This football stadium has grass, which is not New England's normal surface at their own football pitch. When appearing on grass New England have performed like this: Played 23 matches yielding 10 wins, 2 draws and 11 defeats with the goal data 40-44 (scored/conceded).
There have been limited time to rest for the home side, as they were involved in a Major League Soccer game only three days back. Thankfully the previous game, versus DC United, was also a home game here at Subaru Park. The away team is better rested.
Philadelphia Union form and stats
When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Philadelphia Union have managed 3 wins, 2 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 6 games.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Philadelphia Union, who played 0-0 against DC United. That match was also played at this venue (Subaru Park). Blake, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.63 out of 10 in that game. Blake topped it up with a clean sheet.
In the game before, an away victory match versus Colorado Rapids with a 2-1 scoreline.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Philadelphia have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 11 games) they have won 9 times, drawn 2 and lost 0.
Philadelphia Union have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Subaru Park with 10 goals in 6 league matches. Philadelphia Union are not conceding a lot of goals here at Subaru Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 6 matches.
New England form and stats
Playing away, New England, who have the most points (10) away in Major League Soccer, have won 3 games, drawn 1 and suffered 2 defeats in the Major League Soccer this season.
Two away games in a row for England, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Inter Miami. Before that loss this side had won at least a draw from eight league matches in a row. Farrell was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.85. The defender Farrell won 4 of 6 duels.
A rough loss as clear favourites in the match before that one, the US Open Cup fixture home hosting Pittsburgh Riverhounds. New England are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 5 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 11 matches.
New England are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 6 games (in the league). New England have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Philadelphia victories, two draws and three New England wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Uhre 5 goals |  D. Gazdag 4 goals |  J. Carranza 4 goals |
Philadelphia Union missing players
New England missing players
| Philadelphia Union | New England | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | 10 | 4 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 19 |
| 14 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 11 |
| 83% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 58% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 83% | 83% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 33% | 33% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 25% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 42% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 4.2 | 4.7 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.2 | 4.4 |
| 4.6 | 4.5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 6 | 5.6 |
| 2.6 | 2.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13.8 | 17.5 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.5 | 11.8 | 12.7 |
| 4.2 | 4.5 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.5 | 5.2 |
| 34% | 37% | 80% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 26% | 30% |
| 11.7 | 11 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.5 | 15.8 | 13.3 |
| 3.2 | 3.5 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 6.5 | 5 |
- New England have the most points (10) away in Major League Soccer
- New England haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 27 |
| 2 | New England | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
| 3 | Nashville SC | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 22 |
| 4 | Atlanta United | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 21 |
| 5 | Columbus Crew | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 18 |
| 6 | Philadelphia Union | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 18 |
| 7 | Charlotte | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -5 | 18 |
| 8 | DC United | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 16 |
| 9 | New York City | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -1 | 16 |
| 10 | Orlando City | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | -2 | 16 |
| 11 | Inter Miami | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | -1 | 15 |
| 12 | Montreal Impact | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 17 | -9 | 15 |
| 13 | Chicago Fire | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -3 | 14 |
| 14 | New York RB | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 13 |
| 15 | Toronto | 13 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -4 | 13 |
