Major League Soccer fixture guide and facts: Toronto meet Atlanta United

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 16.October
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: BMO Field (30991 seats)

Toronto want to sell some tickets for this game despite that the season has been gruelling up to now with 25 points and a 13th spot in the Major League Soccer table. Guests Atlanta United are in 8th place with 39 pts.

Insights:
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals (54) in Major League Soccer
  • Atlanta United have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in Major League Soccer

Both sides have had adequate rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's hope for an enthusiastic match!

Toronto's stadium, BMO Field, has a grass surface. Atlanta United have artifical turf 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 Atlanta United when playing on grass; 8 wins, 6 draws and 16 losses from 30 matches. They have scored 39 goals in these games and conceded 52.

Atlanta United have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1500 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Toronto form and stats

Toronto have played 13 Major League Soccer games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-5-4 (wins-draws-losses). Toronto are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

The Toronto supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer and win 3-1. Midfield player Michael Bradley got a match rating of 8.21 in that game, the max score being 10. Bradley hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 60 successful passes (of 70 total).

Before that game, the 3-2 home victory against Cincinnati.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Toronto as they are travelling to their away game against Inter Miami in the Major League Soccer. That match is four days after this one.

A decent goal production from Toronto in their home games so far, with 20 goals from 13 league matches. On the other hand, Toronto have conceded 19 goals.

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Atlanta United form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Atlanta United so far with only 12 points returning home. The records show 2-6-6 (win-draw-lose). Atlanta seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Atlanta United lost away at Montreal Impact (1-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Midfield player Santiago Sosa was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.03/10. Sosa hit one key pass and had 80 successful passes (of 87 total).

That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Inter Miami.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting New York City in just four days.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Atlanta United have scored 16 goals in 14 league games away. Atlanta United have conceded 22 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

These competitors have fought before this season: Atlanta United - Toronto 1-0. Toronto-Atlanta United H2H statistics last nine meetings regardless of arena: Toronto four wins, Atlanta United two wins, three draws. six of these nine matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Atlanta UnitedJ. Martínez
J. Martínez
10 goals
Atlanta UnitedE. Barco
E. Barco
7 goals
Atlanta UnitedD. Moreno
D. Moreno
7 goals

Toronto missing players

Atlanta United missing players

Toronto Atlanta United
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
28 13 2 Played P 4 14 28
6 4 0 Won W 1 2 10
7 5 2 Drew D 2 6 9
15 4 0 Lost L 1 6 9
34 20 3 Scored S 5 16 37
54 19 3 Conceded C 7 22 33
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
86% 92% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 79% 64%
57% 54% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 57% 50%
39% 38% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 29% 32%
21% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 14% 11%
68% 77% 100% BTTS BTTS 75% 71% 50%
7% 8% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 29%
29% 15% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 29% 29%
 
4.4 5.3 6 Corners for (avg) C F 6 4.1 5
4.6 4.6 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.6 4.6
1.7 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.2 1.8
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9.9 10.6 9 Shots (avg) S ( 15.5 11.1 13.5
3.6 4 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.6 4.6
34% 38% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 32% 29%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Atlanta United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Atlanta United have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals (54) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals in the first half (26) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 New England 29 20 5 4 57 34 14 11 2 1 28 15 15 9 3 3 29 19 23 65
2 Nashville SC 28 11 14 3 46 26 15 8 7 0 33 16 13 3 7 3 13 10 20 47
3 Philadelphia Union 27 11 9 7 36 26 15 9 3 3 22 10 12 2 6 4 14 16 10 42
4 Orlando City 28 11 9 8 41 41 14 8 4 2 25 14 14 3 5 6 16 27 0 42
5 New York City 28 11 7 10 44 32 14 8 3 3 29 12 14 3 4 7 15 20 12 40
6 DC United 28 12 4 12 49 41 13 10 0 3 28 11 15 2 4 9 21 30 8 40
7 Montreal Impact 28 11 7 10 40 37 14 8 3 3 25 19 14 3 4 7 15 18 3 40
8 Atlanta United 28 10 9 9 37 33 14 8 3 3 21 11 14 2 6 6 16 22 4 39
9 New York RB 27 9 7 11 33 30 13 5 5 3 16 11 14 4 2 8 17 19 3 34
10 Columbus Crew 28 9 7 12 32 39 13 7 3 3 23 18 15 2 4 9 9 21 -7 34
11 Inter Miami 27 9 5 13 25 42 14 5 2 7 17 31 13 4 3 6 8 11 -17 32
12 Chicago Fire 29 7 6 16 29 46 16 6 5 5 22 18 13 1 1 11 7 28 -17 27
13 Toronto 28 6 7 15 34 54 13 4 5 4 20 19 15 2 2 11 14 35 -20 25
14 Cincinnati 27 4 8 15 28 52 12 1 5 6 9 14 15 3 3 9 19 38 -24 20

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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.