Important clash in the cellar of the NWSL, with both North Carolina Courage W and Racing Louisville going through more stress than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home side placed 9th and the visitors in 11th place.
- North Carolina Courage W have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in NWSL
- Racing Louisville have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in NWSL
This has all the signs of an interesting fixture with lots of fun and bustle as both teams are well recovered since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's go!
North Carolina Courage W form and stats
With 2 NWSL wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats from their home games, North Carolina Courage W are certainly not brimming with confidence. Carolina has recorded two wins in a row here at WakeMed Soccer Park, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Happy days for North Carolina Courage W in their previous game, a fixture away at Sky Blue W (placed 12th) that ended with a 1-0 victory.
A defeat was the result before that one, 2-3 away at Kansas City.Goals, goals, goals? Who knows about this one, but we do know that 10 of the 12 latest league matches with this club has contained three goals or more.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for North Carolina Courage W, as the NWSL home game vs Angel City W is only four days away.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (17 in 7 games), North Carolina Courage W's attacking play is working. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Carolina with 15 goals conceded in these matches.
Racing Louisville form and stats
Racing Louisville have only collected 8 points from their away games in the NWSL, after 1-5-2 (8 played).
Racing Louisville are looking to quickly end their 218 minutes long goal drought in the NWSL.
Racing Louisville failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Chicago Red Stars W (placed 6th) that ended with defeat 0-4. That defeat was their first after three consecutive league games winning points. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Chicago Red Stars W was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Before that match, the win at home hosting OL Reign W in the The Women's Cup (2-1). 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 Louisville playing away, we found 5 games. Results were 0 away wins, 3 draws and 2 home wins.
As opposed to that, Racing Louisville have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
North Carolina Courage W have been victorious in all of the 5 most recent battles versus this opponent. Can they do it again?This isn't the first time these two sides get together this campaign, as the fixture list show this recent game: Racing Louisville - Carolina 0-3.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Ordonez 11 goals | D. de Oliveira 5 goals |  N. Nadim 4 goals |
North Carolina Courage W missing players
Racing Louisville missing players
| North Carolina Courage W | Racing Louisville | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 33 | 17 | 3 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| 30 | 15 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 26 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 88% |
| 88% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 71% |
| 75% | 86% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 53% |
| 56% | 71% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 38% | 29% |
| 38% | 43% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 69% | 71% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 59% |
| 19% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 38% | 24% |
| 12% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 38% | 29% |
| 4.5 | 4.7 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 4.2 | 5.2 |
| 5.9 | 4.1 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| 1.1 | 0.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.3 | 12.1 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 6.6 | 9 |
| 5.2 | 5.7 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 2.2 | 3.6 |
| 41% | 42% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 27% | 22% |
| 11.9 | 10.3 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 8.8 | 10.6 |
| 6.1 | 5.6 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.8 | 6.2 |
- North Carolina Courage W have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- North Carolina Courage W have scored more than double the goals of Racing Louisville.
- North Carolina Courage W have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in NWSL
- North Carolina Courage W have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in NWSL
- North Carolina Courage W have the most scored goals in the second half (21) in NWSL
- North Carolina Courage W haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Racing Louisville have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in NWSL
- Racing Louisville have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| 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 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 39 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 19 | 31 |
| 2 | San Diego Wave W | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 29 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 31 |
| 3 | Houston Dash W | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 31 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 29 |
| 4 | Kansas City | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 29 |
| 5 | OL Reign W | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 28 |
| 6 | Chicago Red Stars W | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 4 | 27 |
| 7 | Angel City W | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 25 |
| 8 | Orlando Pride | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 35 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 16 | -15 | 21 |
| 9 | North Carolina Courage W | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 33 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 19 |
| 10 | Washington Spirit W | 18 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 22 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 16 |
| 11 | Racing Louisville | 17 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -10 | 14 |
| 12 | Sky Blue W | 17 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 36 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 19 | -23 | 12 |
