Soccer betting preview: Toronto welcomes Orlando City in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 14.May
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: BMO Field (30991 seats)

This season has been demanding for Toronto up to now, while Orlando City have enjoyed many victories. Will the visiting team chalk up another victory at BMO Field?

Insights:
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals (22) in Major League Soccer
  • Orlando City have the most clean sheets (3) away in Major League Soccer

It's quite the trip for Orlando City when visiting Toronto as the cities are 2000 kilometers apart.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the US Open Cup.

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Toronto form and stats

3 victories, 0 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Toronto, who have the most conceded goals (22) in Major League Soccer, have to build on here at BMO Field in the Major League Soccer. When Toronto hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Philadelphia Union, Montreal Impact and New York RB), they have won 1 of 2 matches! It's trouble wherever Toronto are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.

Jimenez was the last player to score a league goal for Toronto and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Toronto haven't scored in 205 minutes.

Toronto lost their last game at Vancouver Whitecaps after a 0-1 scoreline. The penalty miss from Pozuelo in the defeat against Vancouver Whitecaps was a source of irritation for some fans, but these things happen. Defender MacNaughton got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.75/10. MacNaughton won 10 of 10 duels.

Heartbreak before that as Toronto lost 0-2 at Cincinnati's place.

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 eleven games. Toronto has won four of these, drawn three and lost four.

Toronto have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at BMO Field with 8 goals in 5 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Toronto defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. When Toronto hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Inter Miami, New England, Chicago Fire and DC United), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Orlando City form and stats

The visitors, who have the most clean sheets (3) away in Major League Soccer, are W2-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer.

The regulars enjoyed Orlando's previous game versus Philadelphia Union, a US Open Cup win (2-1) played at home.

Preceding that game, the 1-4 loss visiting Montreal Impact's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Orlando City in our archives, and the results are: one win for Orlando City, eight draws and three defeats.

It's early days yet, but Orlando City has scored 5 and conceded 5 goals from their travels in the league so far (5 games).

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Toronto wins - draws - Orlando City wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

TorontoJ. Jiménez Núñez
J. Jiménez Núñez
7 goals
TorontoA. Pozuelo Melero
A. Pozuelo Melero
2 goals
TorontoJ. Osorio
J. Osorio
2 goals

Toronto missing players

Orlando City missing players

Toronto Orlando City
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 5 2 Played P 1 5 11
3 3 1 Won W 0 2 5
2 0 0 Drew D 1 2 2
6 2 1 Lost L 0 1 4
16 8 3 Scored S 0 5 13
22 9 5 Conceded C 0 5 15
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 80% 91%
91% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 73%
73% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 45%
27% 20% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 18%
18% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 18%
82% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 45%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 60% 45%
18% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 20% 18%
 
4.5 5.4 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3.4 3.8
5.4 5.8 7.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.8 5
1.7 2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 2.4
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.9 8.4 6.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7 6.8 9.3
3.8 4 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.6 3.5
38% 40% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 38% 33%
 
15.2 13.8 17 Shots against (avg) S A 10 15.8 12.9
6.8 6.6 8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.4 3.9
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • All of Toronto's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Orlando City have the most clean sheets (3) away in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Toronto have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Toronto have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Toronto have the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals (22) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have the most conceded goals in the first half (12) in Major League Soccer
  • Toronto have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Toronto 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 Philadelphia Union 10 5 4 1 15 8 5 3 2 0 7 2 5 2 2 1 8 6 7 19
2 New York RB 10 5 3 2 16 8 5 0 3 2 3 5 5 5 0 0 13 3 8 18
3 Montreal Impact 10 5 2 3 20 19 4 3 0 1 9 5 6 2 2 2 11 14 1 17
4 Orlando City 11 5 2 4 13 15 6 3 0 3 8 10 5 2 2 1 5 5 -2 17
5 Cincinnati 11 5 1 5 14 17 5 2 0 3 9 8 6 3 1 2 5 9 -3 16
6 New York City 9 4 2 3 19 10 6 4 1 1 18 7 3 0 1 2 1 3 9 14
7 Atlanta United 10 4 2 4 15 14 5 3 2 0 12 6 5 1 0 4 3 8 1 14
8 Columbus Crew 10 3 4 3 15 11 5 3 0 2 9 4 5 0 4 1 6 7 4 13
9 Charlotte 11 4 1 6 10 13 5 4 0 1 7 2 6 0 1 5 3 11 -3 13
10 DC United 9 4 0 5 12 13 6 3 0 3 10 8 3 1 0 2 2 5 -1 12
11 New England 10 3 2 5 16 18 6 3 1 2 9 7 4 0 1 3 7 11 -2 11
12 Toronto 11 3 2 6 16 22 5 3 0 2 8 9 6 0 2 4 8 13 -6 11
13 Chicago Fire 10 2 4 4 7 11 5 1 3 1 4 3 5 1 1 3 3 8 -4 10
14 Inter Miami 10 3 1 6 9 19 5 2 1 2 6 8 5 1 0 4 3 11 -10 10

Read more about Major League Soccer

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.