Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Houston Dash W & Kansas City face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Nwsl Challenge Cup Women. All the pre-match information is available here!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a NWSL game only four days ago. That game, against Chicago Red Stars W, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Kansas City.
Houston Dash W form and stats
Houston Dash W participated in Nwsl Challenge Cup Women the last season, where they reached the group stage.When playing at home in the NWSL, Houston Dash W have managed 0 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 1 games.
An away draw last time out for Houston, facing Portland Thorns W in a game that ended 1-1.
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Chicago Red Stars W.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Houston Dash W matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat (from 4 games).
Houston Dash W are traveling soon after this match as the NWSL match at Washington Spirit W awaits in three days.
Houston Dash W has scored {0 goals-1} so far and conceded {0 goals-2} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Kansas City form and stats
Kansas was sent out of Nwsl Challenge Cup Women in the semi-finals last season.It's not happening yet for Kansas City on their NWSL travels, with zero points from their first 2 away games. Maybe today will be different?
Kansas City play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 2-4 to Chicago Red Stars W. As you can tell from the result, the match against Chicago Red Stars W was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
The game before that, in the NWSL, was lost at home, a 1-4 defeat against Portland Thorns W.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Kansas City playing away, we found 4 games. Results were 2 away wins, 0 draws and 2 home wins.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Orlando Pride in just four days.
It's early days yet, but Kansas City has scored 2 and conceded 5 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's three Houston victories, one draw and five Kansas City wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Sanchez Morales 2 goals | D. Ordonez 1 goals |  M. Larsson 1 goals |
Houston Dash W missing players
Kansas City missing players
| Houston Dash W | Kansas City | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 3 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Lost | L | 7 | 8 | ||
| 39 | 17 | Scored | S | 16 | 34 | ||
| 30 | 16 | Conceded | C | 20 | 34 | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 57% | 64% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 16% | ||
| 60% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 43% | 24% | ||
| 4.9 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.7 | ||
| 4.7 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.1 | 4.8 | ||
| 1.8 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.6 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 8.8 | ||
| 5.1 | 6.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4.4 | ||
| 25% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 31% | ||
| 11.1 | 9.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 10 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.9 | 4.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Portland Thorns W | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| 2 | Washington Spirit W | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | San Diego Wave W | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | OL Reign W | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Sky Blue W | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Houston Dash W | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Angel City W | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Chicago Red Stars W | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Racing Louisville | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | North Carolina Courage W | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
| 11 | Kansas City | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -6 | 0 |
| 12 | Orlando Pride | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 0 |
