Balanced ball game between Vancouver Whitecaps and Los Angeles FC expected

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 22.Oct
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: BC Place Stadium (22120 seats)

Here's everything you must know about the Major League Soccer game Vancouver Whitecaps - Los Angeles FC!

Insights:
  • Vancouver Whitecaps have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Los Angeles FC have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Major League Soccer

3 - 2 - 2 with 8-6. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Los Angeles FC when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Los Angeles FC play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

Los Angeles FC have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 2000 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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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Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats

Vancouver Whitecaps have collected 29 points from their Major League Soccer home games so far after 8-5-3.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka not having conceded a league goal in 208 minutes.

Vancouver Whitecaps shared the glory with Seattle Sounders in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Takaoka, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 8.12 out of 10 in that game. Takaoka topped it up with a clean sheet.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting St. Louis City in a game that was won 3-0.

This is expected to be a close game, with Vancouver Whitecaps perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Vancouver Whitecaps as a small favourite), we find 14 games. Vancouver has won 6 of these, drawn 3 and lost 5.

Take note: 18 of the most recent 24 league matches from these players have had at least one goal from each team.

Goals decide football matches and Vancouver Whitecaps are scoring many of them at home; 34 on target from 16 league matches. Vancouver Whitecaps have conceded 18 in these home matches.

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Los Angeles FC form and stats

4 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses. That’s the product of Los Angeles FC playing as the away team in the Major League Soccer this season.

Los Angeles FC play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 4-2 victory visiting Austin (placed 12th). As you can tell from the result, the match against Austin was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Attacker Bouanga got a player rating of 9.4 in the game. "Man of the match" Bouanga scored two goals, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.

That result followed a home victory 5-1 versus Minnesota United.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Angeles in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Los Angeles FC, 6 draws and 4 defeats.

Los Angeles FC have scored 17 goals on their travels this season, from 16 away games in the league. 21 goals have been conceded by Los Angeles FC in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Los Angeles FC - Vancouver Whitecaps 2-3 was the score in these sides' latest H2H match, played this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Vancouver victories, two draws and four Los Angeles FC wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Los Angeles FCD. Bouanga
D. Bouanga
18 goals
Vancouver WhitecapsB. White
B. White
15 goals
Vancouver WhitecapsR. Gauld
R. Gauld
11 goals

Vancouver Whitecaps missing players

Los Angeles FC missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Vancouver Whitecaps Los Angeles FC
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
33 16 4 Played P 4 16 33
12 8 3 Won W 1 4 14
11 5 0 Drew D 0 6 9
10 3 1 Lost L 3 6 10
54 34 13 Scored S 4 17 53
47 18 5 Conceded C 6 21 38
91% 94% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 85%
82% 81% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 76%
61% 56% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 58%
36% 38% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 19% 30%
24% 31% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 18%
70% 62% 50% BTTS BTTS 25% 50% 52%
24% 31% 50% Clean Sheets C S 25% 31% 33%
15% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 44% 30%
 
5.8 7 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.6 5.9
4.8 3.9 5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.8 5.8 4.7
1.9 1.8 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 1.9 2
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13.4 15.9 16.2 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 12.5 15.3
4.8 6.1 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.1 5.5
34% 35% 54% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 26% 29%
 
11.9 8.9 10.8 Shots against (avg) S A 11.5 11.2 10.1
4.3 3.1 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 3.9 3.6
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Los Angeles FC have the fewest dropped points from leading position (4) in Major League Soccer
  • Los Angeles FC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Vancouver Whitecaps have won significantly more corners at home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 St. Louis City 33 17 5 11 62 43 16 11 2 3 41 15 17 6 3 8 21 28 19 56
2 Los Angeles FC 33 14 9 10 53 38 17 10 3 4 36 17 16 4 6 6 17 21 15 51
3 Seattle Sounders 33 13 11 9 39 32 17 7 6 4 19 11 16 6 5 5 20 21 7 50
4 Houston Dynamo 33 13 9 11 48 37 17 11 4 2 36 11 16 2 5 9 12 26 11 48
5 Real Salt Lake 33 13 8 12 47 50 17 6 4 7 25 27 16 7 4 5 22 23 -3 47
6 Vancouver Whitecaps 33 12 11 10 54 47 16 8 5 3 34 18 17 4 6 7 20 29 7 47
7 Portland Timbers 33 11 10 12 45 55 16 9 3 4 28 19 17 2 7 8 17 36 -10 43
8 Dallas 33 10 13 10 37 36 17 7 7 3 23 16 16 3 6 7 14 20 1 43
9 SJ Earthquakes 33 10 13 10 38 42 16 8 6 2 24 15 17 2 7 8 14 27 -4 43
10 Sporting KC 33 11 8 14 45 50 16 8 2 6 27 20 17 3 6 8 18 30 -5 41
11 Minnesota United 33 10 11 12 45 48 17 4 9 4 24 20 16 6 2 8 21 28 -3 41
12 Austin 33 10 8 15 48 54 17 7 4 6 28 22 16 3 4 9 20 32 -6 38
13 LA Galaxy 33 8 12 13 50 63 16 6 6 4 30 25 17 2 6 9 20 38 -13 36
14 Colorado Rapids 33 5 12 16 26 53 16 3 8 5 13 15 17 2 4 11 13 38 -27 27

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 St. Louis City 33 17 5 11 62 43 16 11 2 3 41 15 17 6 3 8 21 28 19 56
2 Los Angeles FC 33 14 9 10 53 38 17 10 3 4 36 17 16 4 6 6 17 21 15 51
3 Seattle Sounders 33 13 11 9 39 32 17 7 6 4 19 11 16 6 5 5 20 21 7 50
4 Houston Dynamo 33 13 9 11 48 37 17 11 4 2 36 11 16 2 5 9 12 26 11 48
5 Real Salt Lake 33 13 8 12 47 50 17 6 4 7 25 27 16 7 4 5 22 23 -3 47
6 Vancouver Whitecaps 33 12 11 10 54 47 16 8 5 3 34 18 17 4 6 7 20 29 7 47
7 Portland Timbers 33 11 10 12 45 55 16 9 3 4 28 19 17 2 7 8 17 36 -10 43
8 Dallas 33 10 13 10 37 36 17 7 7 3 23 16 16 3 6 7 14 20 1 43
9 SJ Earthquakes 33 10 13 10 38 42 16 8 6 2 24 15 17 2 7 8 14 27 -4 43
10 Sporting KC 33 11 8 14 45 50 16 8 2 6 27 20 17 3 6 8 18 30 -5 41
11 Minnesota United 33 10 11 12 45 48 17 4 9 4 24 20 16 6 2 8 21 28 -3 41
12 Austin 33 10 8 15 48 54 17 7 4 6 28 22 16 3 4 9 20 32 -6 38
13 LA Galaxy 33 8 12 13 50 63 16 6 6 4 30 25 17 2 6 9 20 38 -13 36
14 Colorado Rapids 33 5 12 16 26 53 16 3 8 5 13 15 17 2 4 11 13 38 -27 27

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