Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Toronto - Columbus Crew!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Toronto form and stats
Toronto have collected 11 points from their Major League Soccer home games so far after 3-2-1.
Toronto travelled for their previous game, a trip to DC United that ended 2-2. A strong away win before that one, visiting Montreal Impact and winning 2-1.
The hometeam coach G. Vanney made a successful contribution in the game against DC United, bringing on Ayo Akinola who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw.
This is expected to be a close game, with Toronto perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Toronto as a small favourite), we find two games. Toronto has won one of these, drawn zero and lost one.
Toronto has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Toronto have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.
Columbus Crew form and stats
The visitors, who have the fewest conceded goals (4) in Major League Soccer, are W2-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer. Columbus has drawn their two previous away games.
Columbus Crew had fun at their own home (Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field) last time out, beating Nashville SC 2-0. Gyasi Zardes and Pedro Santos scored. Before that, Columbus travelled to Chicago Fire and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Columbus in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Columbus Crew, three draws and nine defeats.
Columbus are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 6 games (in the league). It's not easy to score on Columbus as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - three - two (Toronto wins - draws - Columbus Crew wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Zardes 10 goals |   A. Akinola 6 goals |  A. Pozuelo Melero 4 goals |
Toronto missing players
Columbus Crew missing players
| Toronto | Columbus Crew | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 8 | 21 |
| 17 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 92% | 86% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 83% | 92% |
| 62% | 43% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 62% |
| 62% | 43% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 31% |
| 46% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 15% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 54% | 29% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 23% |
| 38% | 57% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 69% |
| 15% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 15% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.3 | 1.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 207 | 120 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 60 | 147 |
| 79 | 42 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 22 | 48 |
| 27% | 19% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 36% | 44% |
- Columbus Crew has the fewest conceded goals (4) in Major League Soccer
- Columbus Crew has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Major League Soccer
- Columbus Crew has the most clean sheets (9) in Major League Soccer
- Columbus Crew has the the best goal difference (+16) in Major League Soccer
- Columbus Crew have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Columbus Crew have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Columbus Crew | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 27 |
| 2 | Philadelphia Union | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 24 |
| 3 | Orlando City | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 22 |
| 4 | Toronto | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 22 |
| 5 | New York City | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 |
| 6 | Montreal Impact | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | -2 | 16 |
| 7 | New England | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -1 | 15 |
| 8 | New York RB | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 14 |
| 9 | Nashville SC | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -4 | 12 |
| 10 | Cincinnati | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -9 | 12 |
| 11 | Inter Miami | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | -4 | 11 |
| 12 | Atlanta United | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -5 | 11 |
| 13 | DC United | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 11 |
| 14 | Chicago Fire | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -10 | 9 |