League round two of the NWSL campaign and the contenders have done their adjustments after the first game. Here's the best Kansas City - Houston Dash W preview:
It's no vacation for neither Kansas City nor Houston Dash W as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Kansas City form and stats
The previous season, Kansas City's league results were 3 wins, 7 draws and 14 losses, producing 10th spot in the NWSL. In these 24 matches they scored 15 goals and gave away 36. Playing at home in the previous season Kansas City produced 3-4-5 (win-draw-lost) with 9 goals and 13 conceded.
The Kansas City crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Houston Dash W here at Children's Mercy Park.
Erik lost again The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Kansas have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found six matches with the results: Won three, drawn zero and lost three.
Houston Dash W form and stats
Let's have a look at how Houston Dash W performed last season in the Club Friendlies Women: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 5 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 31 and conceded 31 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 1 and lost 7 with 14/19 goals scored/conceded.
Houston Dash W play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Kansas City (placed 11th).
A loss against San Diego Wave W was the result prior to that, in a home game.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Houston Dash W in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Houston Dash W, one draw and one defeat.
Head 2 Head
As for the last six games between these two teams, there's three Kansas victories, one draw and two Houston Dash W wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.Kansas City missing players
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| Kansas City | Houston Dash W | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 3.5 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| 5.5 | 5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 0.5 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6.5 | 8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7 | 7.5 |
| 3.5 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 11.5 | 7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 8 | 7.5 |
| 7.5 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 4.5 |
| Kansas City | Last season | Houston Dash W | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 24 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 24 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 14 | 5 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 15 | 9 | Scored | S | 14 | 31 | ||
| 36 | 13 | Conceded | C | 19 | 31 | ||
| 83% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 67% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 67% | ||
| 46% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 50% | ||
| 17% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 25% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 38% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 54% | ||
| 25% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 17% | ||
| 54% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 29% | ||
| 4.3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 5 | ||
| 4.9 | 5.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.8 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10.3 | 10.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.3 | 10.9 | ||
| 4.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 5.3 | ||
| 19% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 25% | ||
| 8.8 | 7.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 11.3 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | San Diego Wave W | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Portland Thorns W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | Angel City W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Chicago Red Stars W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Washington Spirit W | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Sky Blue W | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
| 7 | North Carolina Courage W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 8 | OL Reign W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 9 | Racing Louisville | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Houston Dash W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Kansas City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 12 | Orlando Pride | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 24 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 33 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 44 |
| 2 | OL Reign W | 24 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 37 | 24 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 42 |
| 3 | Washington Spirit W | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 29 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 39 |
| 4 | Chicago Red Stars W | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 28 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 38 |
| 5 | Sky Blue W | 24 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 29 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 35 |
| 6 | North Carolina Courage W | 24 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 28 | 23 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 33 |
| 7 | Houston Dash W | 24 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 31 | 31 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 32 |
| 8 | Orlando Pride | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 27 | 32 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 17 | -5 | 28 |
| 9 | Racing Louisville | 24 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 40 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 25 | -19 | 22 |
| 10 | Kansas City | 24 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 36 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 23 | -21 | 16 |
