Football betting preview: Portland Timbers vs Orlando City

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 27.March
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Providence Park (21144 seats)

Portland Timbers get ready to host Orlando City for another interesting Major League Soccer fixture here at Providence Park.

Insights:
  • Orlando City have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Major League Soccer

This ground has the surface artifical turf, unlike Orlando City's home stadium. The last seven games by the away team on artifical turf have seen 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses.

These teams have little in common geographically as Orlando City have to travel 4800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Portland Timbers form and stats

Only two Major League Soccer home games for Portland Timbers so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.

Portland are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-4 away versus Dallas. Midfield player Ayala got a match rating of 7.04 in that game, the max score being 10. Ayala dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 30 successful passes (of 35 total).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Austin in a game that was won 1-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Portland Timbers handle that role? We have found 19 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are nine wins, six draws and four defeats.

Early season league goal statistics from Portland Timbers's 2 home games: 3 goals, 2 conceded.

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Orlando City form and stats

Four points from two away games for Orlando City, meaning one draw and one victory in the Major League Soccer so far.

Orlando City play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting LA Galaxy (placed 7th). Defender Carlos was the best team player with a rating of 8.05. Carlos won 3 of 5 duels.

Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Cincinnati.

We have checked recent matches where Orlando have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those ten games were four victories, two draws and four defeats.

1 goal so far away for Orlando City, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 2 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Previous six meetings with these teams: Portland Timbers won two, Orlando City triumphed in three and we saw one draw. four games with more than 2,5 goals, two matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Portland TimbersY. Chará Zamora
Y. Chará Zamora
2 goals
PortlandB. Tuiloma
B. Tuiloma
1 goals
Portland TimbersJ. Niezgoda
J. Niezgoda
1 goals

Portland Timbers missing players

Orlando City missing players

Portland Timbers Orlando City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
4 2 0 Played P 1 2 4
1 1 0 Won W 1 1 2
2 1 0 Drew D 0 1 1
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
5 3 0 Scored S 1 1 4
7 2 0 Conceded C 0 0 2
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 50% 75%
75% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 50%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 25%
50% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
25% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
75% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 25%
25% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 100% 75%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 25%
 
2.2 3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 2 2.5 3.8
8.2 9 0 Corners against (avg) C A 12 8.5 6.5
3.2 3.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.5 3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.5 14 0 Shots (avg) S ( 6 6.5 8.2
3.5 3.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2 3
36% 43% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 25% 33%
 
16 13.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 20 15 12
5 4 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.5 3.2
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Orlando City have the fewest conceded goals (0) away in Major League Soccer
Portland Timbers Last season Orlando City
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 20   Played P   18 35
20 13   Won W   5 13
5 3   Drew D   5 12
13 4   Lost L   8 10
63 41   Scored S   22 51
54 24   Conceded C   33 51
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 94%
84% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   89% 83%
61% 65%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   61% 57%
32% 30%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   39% 34%
18% 20%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   17% 20%
61% 65%   BTTS BTTS   72% 69%
29% 30%   Clean Sheets C S   17% 26%
11% 5%   Failed to Score F T   11% 11%
 
4.1 5.1   Corners for (avg) C F   4.2 4.4
6.6 5.9   Corners against (avg) C A   5.1 5.2
2.1 2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.6 2
3 2   Red cards R C   1 3
 
13.3 16.2   Shots (avg) S (   11.2 12.1
4.2 4.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4 4.2
40% 43%   Goal Efficiency G E   31% 35%
 
14.3 13.6   Shots against (avg) S A   13.9 12.9
4.8 5   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.2 4.3

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Los Angeles FC 4 3 1 0 9 2 3 2 1 0 7 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 7 10
2 Real Salt Lake 4 3 1 0 6 3 2 2 0 0 3 1 2 1 1 0 3 2 3 10
3 Minnesota United 4 2 2 0 4 2 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 2 8
4 Austin 4 2 1 1 11 3 3 2 1 0 11 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 8 7
5 Dallas 4 2 1 1 7 3 3 2 1 0 7 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 4 7
6 Colorado Rapids 4 2 1 1 6 4 2 2 0 0 5 0 2 0 1 1 1 4 2 7
7 LA Galaxy 4 2 0 2 4 4 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 6
8 Houston Dynamo 4 1 2 1 3 3 3 1 2 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 5
9 Portland Timbers 4 1 2 1 5 7 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 0 1 1 2 5 -2 5
10 Seattle Sounders 4 1 1 2 4 5 2 1 0 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 4
11 Nashville SC 4 1 1 2 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 3 5 -2 4
12 Sporting KC 4 1 0 3 3 8 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 2 8 -5 3
13 SJ Earthquakes 4 0 1 3 4 9 2 0 1 1 4 6 2 0 0 2 0 3 -5 1
14 Vancouver Whitecaps 4 0 1 3 2 9 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 2 9 -7 1

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