Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Detroit City & Columbus Crew face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the US Open Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Detroit City form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the US Open Cup for Detroit, as the manager James led his troops to eliminate Michigan Stars, and reach the 3rd Round. Last season their US Open Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.Detroit City's last game was hosting Birmingham Legion and winning 1-0.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Atlanta United II and winning 4-0.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Detroit City as they are travelling to their away game against Hartford Athletic in the USL Championship. That match is four days after this one.
Columbus Crew form and stats
Last season their US Open Cup adventure ended in the 8th finals.Still no away game victory in the Major League Soccer for Columbus Crew with 2 draws and 1 loss from their first 3 attempts.
This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, the home defeat versus Orlando City with 0-2 on the scoreboard. Midfield player Zelarayán was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.9/10. Zelarayán hit the woodwork once, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 7 of 9 times.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Philadelphia Union's place.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Major League Soccer trip to Sporting KC.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Columbus have scored 4 goals in 3 league games away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Columbus Crew have conceded 5 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  L. Zelarayán 4 goals |   A. Hoppenot 3 goals | P. Faz 2 goals |
Detroit City missing players
Columbus Crew missing players
| Detroit City | Columbus Crew | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 9 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 44 | 17 | Scored | S | 15 | 39 | ||
| 12 | 4 | Conceded | C | 17 | 31 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 60% | 46% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 23% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 56% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 36% | 23% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 56% | ||
| 56% | 69% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 28% | ||
| 5.4 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.6 | ||
| 2.5 | 1.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.1 | 4.7 | ||
| 1.4 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.6 | 7.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.2 | 14 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.6 | ||
| 56% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 35% | ||
| 5 | 5.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.8 | 11.5 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Philadelphia Union | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 2 | Orlando City | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| 3 | New York RB | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 4 | Atlanta United | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 5 | Toronto | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 11 |
| 6 | Chicago Fire | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Montreal Impact | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | -3 | 10 |
| 8 | Charlotte | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -3 | 9 |
| 9 | Columbus Crew | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 10 | New York City | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 |
| 11 | New England | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 12 | Cincinnati | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 13 | Inter Miami | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -8 | 7 |
| 14 | DC United | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 6 |
