Major League Soccer: Portland Timbers thought to win home fixture versus Austin

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 07.November
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Providence Park (21144 seats)

A good game and three points is the only event that will satisfy the Portland Timbers regulars in this Providence Park duel with Austin, as they enjoy a robust lead on them in the Major League Soccer standings.

Insights:
  • Portland Timbers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Austin have the fewest scored goals (35) in Major League Soccer

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Portland Timbers and Austin.

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Portland Timbers form and stats

Portland Timbers have performed here at Providence Park this season with 10 wins from 16 Major League Soccer matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 2 games and lost 4.

Portland enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Real Salt Lake's place. The match ended 3-1 with Sebastián Blanco (2) scoring. Midfielder Sebastián Blanco was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.75 (out of ten) in that game. Blanco scored two goals and hit one key pass.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against SJ Earthquakes.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Portland's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played nine games, won seven matches, drawn one and lost one.

Goals decide football matches and Portland are scoring many of them at home; 32 on target from 16 league matches. 22 goals have been conceded.

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Austin form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Austin so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-12 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in 13 away games in a row.

Impressive finishing from Julio Cascante, Sebastián Driussi and Jared Stroud secured the home win 3-1 against Sporting KC in their previous game. Midfield player Jared Stroud was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.64/10. Stroud scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and had 25 successful passes (of 31 total).

Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Dallas's place.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Austin playing away, we found one game. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and one home win.

Goals are few and far between in Austin's away league games. Only 8 goals from 16 travels. In the opposite end, Austin have conceded 28 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

These sides encountered each other earlier on this campaign: Austin - Portland 3-1. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Portland Timbers victories, zero draws and two Austin wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Portland TimbersF. Mora Aliaga
F. Mora Aliaga
11 goals
Portland TimbersD. Asprilla Rivas
D. Asprilla Rivas
10 goals
PortlandY. Chará Zamora
Y. Chará Zamora
7 goals

Portland Timbers missing players

Austin missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Portland Timbers Austin
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
33 16 6 Played P 5 16 33
16 10 5 Won W 1 2 9
4 2 1 Drew D 2 2 4
13 4 0 Lost L 2 12 20
53 32 10 Scored S 5 8 35
52 22 4 Conceded C 7 28 53
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 94% 91%
85% 81% 83% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 75% 73%
64% 69% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 44% 52%
33% 31% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 12% 24%
21% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
64% 69% 67% BTTS BTTS 60% 31% 45%
24% 25% 33% Clean Sheets C S 20% 12% 15%
12% 6% 0% Failed to Score F T 40% 62% 48%
 
3.8 4.8 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 5.2 6
6.9 6.2 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 10 7.1 6.2
2.2 2.2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 1.8 1.8
2 2 1 Red cards R C 1 3 4
 
12.7 15.6 16 Shots (avg) S ( 10.4 12.1 13.8
4.1 4.7 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.2 3.1 4.2
39% 43% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 24% 16% 26%
 
15.2 14.8 13.7 Shots against (avg) S A 19.4 16.6 14.9
4.8 5 4.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.8 5.6 5.5
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Austin have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Austin have the fewest points from losing position (3) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the fewest scored goals (35) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the fewest scored goals (8) away in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the fewest scored goals in the second half (13) in Major League Soccer
  • Austin have the the worst goal difference (-20) away in Major League Soccer
  • Portland Timbers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Portland Timbers have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Austin have scored away.
  • Portland Timbers have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Portland Timbers 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 Seattle Sounders 33 17 8 8 52 32 17 8 5 4 28 15 16 9 3 4 24 17 20 59
2 Sporting KC 33 17 7 9 58 39 16 9 5 2 32 16 17 8 2 7 26 23 19 58
3 Colorado Rapids 33 16 10 7 46 33 16 8 7 1 26 12 17 8 3 6 20 21 13 58
4 Portland Timbers 33 16 4 13 53 52 16 10 2 4 32 22 17 6 2 9 21 30 1 52
5 Minnesota United 33 13 9 11 39 41 17 10 3 4 24 14 16 3 6 7 15 27 -2 48
6 Vancouver Whitecaps 33 12 12 9 44 44 16 10 2 4 24 16 17 2 10 5 20 28 0 48
7 LA Galaxy 33 13 8 12 47 51 16 8 4 4 26 19 17 5 4 8 21 32 -4 47
8 Real Salt Lake 33 13 6 14 54 54 17 9 4 4 30 21 16 4 2 10 24 33 0 45
9 Los Angeles FC 33 12 9 12 51 46 17 8 6 3 34 23 16 4 3 9 17 23 5 45
10 SJ Earthquakes 33 10 10 13 45 53 16 5 4 7 24 23 17 5 6 6 21 30 -8 40
11 Dallas 33 7 11 15 46 55 17 5 7 5 25 21 16 2 4 10 21 34 -9 32
12 Austin 33 9 4 20 35 53 17 7 2 8 27 25 16 2 2 12 8 28 -18 31
13 Houston Dynamo 34 6 12 16 36 54 17 6 6 5 21 22 17 0 6 11 15 32 -18 30

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 Seattle Sounders 33 17 8 8 52 32 17 8 5 4 28 15 16 9 3 4 24 17 20 59
2 Sporting KC 33 17 7 9 58 39 16 9 5 2 32 16 17 8 2 7 26 23 19 58
3 Colorado Rapids 33 16 10 7 46 33 16 8 7 1 26 12 17 8 3 6 20 21 13 58
4 Portland Timbers 33 16 4 13 53 52 16 10 2 4 32 22 17 6 2 9 21 30 1 52
5 Minnesota United 33 13 9 11 39 41 17 10 3 4 24 14 16 3 6 7 15 27 -2 48
6 Vancouver Whitecaps 33 12 12 9 44 44 16 10 2 4 24 16 17 2 10 5 20 28 0 48
7 LA Galaxy 33 13 8 12 47 51 16 8 4 4 26 19 17 5 4 8 21 32 -4 47
8 Real Salt Lake 33 13 6 14 54 54 17 9 4 4 30 21 16 4 2 10 24 33 0 45
9 Los Angeles FC 33 12 9 12 51 46 17 8 6 3 34 23 16 4 3 9 17 23 5 45
10 SJ Earthquakes 33 10 10 13 45 53 16 5 4 7 24 23 17 5 6 6 21 30 -8 40
11 Dallas 33 7 11 15 46 55 17 5 7 5 25 21 16 2 4 10 21 34 -9 32
12 Austin 33 9 4 20 35 53 17 7 2 8 27 25 16 2 2 12 8 28 -18 31
13 Houston Dynamo 34 6 12 16 36 54 17 6 6 5 21 22 17 0 6 11 15 32 -18 30

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