Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Houston Dynamo & 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!
These teams have little in common geographically as Minnesota United have to travel 1900 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
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.
Houston Dynamo form and stats
Last season their US Open Cup adventure ended in the round of 16.13 points is a decent return from 6 Major League Soccer games here at BBVA Compass Stadium for Houston Dynamo. The data says 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
An away draw last time out for Houston Dynamo, facing Dallas in a game that ended 1-1. Úlfarsson was able to secure the draw 1-1 in the game against Dallas after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? Midfielder Herrera was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.81 (out of ten) in that game. Herrera served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 5 of 7 times and had 46 successful passes (of 55 total).
Prior to that, an away loss at Minnesota United in the Major League Soccer.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 Houston have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 18 matches with the results: Won 6, drawn 6 and lost 6.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Major League Soccer game versus Austin in only four days. This game is also played here at BBVA Compass Stadium.
Houston Dynamo has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Houston Dynamo have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only {1 goals}.
Minnesota United form and stats
They also participated in US Open Cup last season. This ended in the round of 16.Playing away, Minnesota United have won 4 games, drawn 0 and suffered 4 defeats in the Major League Soccer this season.
The Minnesota goalkeeper Clinton Irwin is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 186 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Minnesota United play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Portland Timbers. Late drama in the previous game, when Hlongwane scored the winning goal five minutes into stoppage time to defeat Portland Timbers. Boxall was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.85. The defender Boxall hit one key pass and won 7 of 9 duels.
Before that, Minnesota United secured a home win against Houston Dynamo with the score 1-0.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Minnesota playing away and similar expectations, we found 7 relevant matches. Results were 3 Minnesota United wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
After this away game Minnesota United return home for a Major League Soccer game against Real Salt Lake. That game is only four sleeps after this.
10 goals have been conceded by Minnesota United in these games.
Head 2 Head
Minnesota United have won every one of the 6 latest games against this team. Something to take note of?Top Goalscorers
  A. Bassi 5 goals |   B. Hlongwane 4 goals |  H. Herrera López 2 goals |
Houston Dynamo missing players
Minnesota United missing players
| Houston Dynamo | Minnesota United | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 16 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 9 | 12 | ||
| 28 | 14 | Scored | S | 16 | 26 | ||
| 24 | 5 | Conceded | C | 24 | 37 | ||
| 88% | 82% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 45% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 68% | ||
| 40% | 27% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 24% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 12% | 16% | ||
| 44% | 18% | BTTS | BTTS | 44% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 73% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 28% | ||
| 3.6 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 4.1 | ||
| 5.3 | 5.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.5 | ||
| 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 8.6 | 9.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.1 | 10.4 | ||
| 3.1 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.4 | ||
| 35% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 32% | ||
| 13.4 | 14.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.8 | 13.3 | ||
| 4 | 4.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Los Angeles FC | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 25 |
| 2 | Seattle Sounders | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 23 |
| 3 | Saint Louis City | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 22 |
| 4 | Dallas | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 22 |
| 5 | SJ Earthquakes | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -1 | 18 |
| 6 | Minnesota United | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 18 |
| 7 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 17 |
| 8 | Portland Timbers | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -2 | 16 |
| 9 | Austin | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -5 | 16 |
| 10 | Houston Dynamo | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 15 |
| 11 | Real Salt Lake | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -9 | 15 |
| 12 | Colorado Rapids | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 12 |
| 13 | Sporting KC | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -12 | 10 |
| 14 | LA Galaxy | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 13 | -13 | 9 |
