Portland Timbers supporters put their faith in manager Savarese to deliver victory against New York City

Portland's stadium, Providence Park, has a artifical turf surface. New York City have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for New York City when playing on artifical turf; 0 wins, 7 draws and 4 losses from eleven matches. They have scored {13 goals} in these games and conceded 20.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 4600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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.

Portland Timbers form and stats

When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Portland Timbers have managed 4 wins, 2 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 9 games.

The Portland Timbers regulars got no joy from their last match, also played here at Providence Park: A 1-2 defeat against Chicago Fire. The first setback in the shape of a loss after collecting points through three league rounds. Moreno (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.01/10. Moreno served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times.

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 Portland Timbers have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 23 games) they have won 13 times, drawn 6 and lost 4.

Portland Timbers has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Portland has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.

New York City form and stats

There's been little loot from New York City's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 10 away games in the Major League Soccer. New York City only have 0 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 5 draws. Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in ten away games in a row.

New York City are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Atlanta United. The attacker Pereira got a match rating of 8.31 in that game. Pereira scored two goals.

New York City are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 10 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. New York City have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

G. Pereira dos Santos 6 goals

F. Boli 5 goals

E. da Silva Ferreira 4 goals

Portland Timbers missing players

New York City missing players