Major League Soccer preview: Can Philadelphia Union edge out victory against New York RB?

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 15.May
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Subaru Park (19178 seats)

The Major League Soccer league table might not tell the truth so early on, but it's the best truth we have so far. Philadelphia Union and New York RB are placed 9th and 5th respectively.

Insights:
  • Philadelphia Union have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Major League Soccer

There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Major League Soccer match only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus New England, was also a home game here at Subaru Park. The away team is better rested.

New York RB have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1900 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Philadelphia Union form and stats

Three Major League Soccer home games done for Philadelphia Union, who are not happy collecting 1 point from these matches.

The attacker Kacper Przybyłko was "man of the match" for Philadelphia with a rating of 7.45/10. Przybyłko scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that match, a win away at Chicago Fire.

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 seven games) they have won four times, drawn zero and lost three.

Philadelphia Union aren't scoring a lot here at Subaru Park in the league, with only 2 goals from 3 games. Philadelphia have conceded 5 from these games.

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New York RB form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Major League Soccer travels is 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. York goalkeeper Carlos Miguel Coronel is eager to challenge this, with his 210 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

York are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the Major League Soccer against Toronto (placed 11th). Kyle Duncan was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.42. The defender Duncan won 14 of 17 duels.

That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Chicago Fire.

York are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and nine defeats. From a total of twelve matches.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, New York RB has managed 2 goals and let in 3 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Philadelphia six wins, two draws and New York RB two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

New York RBC. Clark
C. Clark
3 goals
New York RBC. Cásseres Yepes
C. Cásseres Yepes
2 goals
Philadelphia UnionJ. Glesnes
J. Glesnes
1 goals

Philadelphia Union missing players

New York RB missing players

Philadelphia Union New York RB
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
5 3 0 Played P 0 1 4
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 2
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 2 0 Lost L 0 1 2
4 2 0 Scored S 0 2 7
5 5 0 Conceded C 0 3 5
80% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
80% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
20% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 100% 25%
40% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 50%
40% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 50%
40% 33% 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
2.4 1.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 1.5
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12 10.3 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 13 11
3 1.7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5 4.5
27% 40% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 39%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Philadelphia Union have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Major League Soccer
Philadelphia Union Last season New York RB
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
27 15   Played P   14 24
16 12   Won W   4 9
5 1   Drew D   4 5
6 2   Lost L   6 10
49 32   Scored S   18 31
25 11   Conceded C   22 34
93% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
78% 87%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   79% 71%
63% 67%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   36% 42%
22% 20%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   36% 29%
15% 13%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   21% 21%
52% 53%   BTTS BTTS   57% 54%
37% 40%   Clean Sheets C S   21% 21%
19% 7%   Failed to Score F T   21% 25%
 
0 0   Corners for (avg) C F   0 0
0 0   Corners against (avg) C A   0 0
2.2 2.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.4 1.4
0 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
12.9 13.4   Shots (avg) S (   9.1 10.4
5.1 5.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.5 3.6
36% 41%   Goal Efficiency G E   37% 36%

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

Read more about Major League Soccer

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.