Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Forward Madison & Minnesota United 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.
Forward Madison form and stats
Forward Madison have reached this US Open Cup stage through battling and winning against Cleveland SC. Forward was eliminated in the 3rd round last season in the US Open Cup.Forward Madison have collected 1 point from their USL League One home games so far after 0-1-0.
Forward Madison travelled for their previous game, a trip to Tucson that ended 1-1.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a USL League One home game that ended 2-2 versus Union Omaha.Forward Madison has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Minnesota United form and stats
Minnesota United was sent out of US Open Cup in the final last season.Minnesota are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the match against Colorado Rapids. Goalkeeper Clair was absolutely vital in the Minnesota United victory against Colorado Rapids, making seven saves. Reynoso got a match rating of 8.45 in that game, top player of the team. Reynoso served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times and had 38 successful passes (of 45 total).
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Austin's place.A new game in only three days for Minnesota, the Major League Soccer home match versus Chicago Fire. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  R. Lod 2 goals | L. Amarilla Lencina 2 goals |  N. Bartman 1 goals |
Forward Madison missing players
Minnesota United missing players
| Forward Madison | Minnesota United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 30 | 18 | Scored | S | 14 | 34 | ||
| 32 | 13 | Conceded | C | 22 | 35 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 79% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 68% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 12% | ||
| 68% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 56% | ||
| 12% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 43% | 24% | ||
| 3.5 | 3.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5 | ||
| 5.2 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.7 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7.9 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.3 | 12.4 | ||
| 3 | 3.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 4 | ||
| 39% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 32% | ||
| 8.3 | 7.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 12.8 | ||
| 3.7 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Chattanooga Red Wolves | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Richmond Kickers | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Central Valley Fuego | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Charlotte Independence | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | North Carolina | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 4 |
| 6 | Forward Madison | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Union Omaha | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Northern Colorado | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
| 9 | Tormenta | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Greenville Triumph | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 1 |
| 11 | Tucson | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 1 |
