National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Monterey Bay or SJ Earthquakes that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Monterey and SJ Earthquakes.
Monterey Bay form and stats
Monterey Bay have not come this way in the US Open Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Central Valley Fuego. Last season their US Open Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.Monterey Bay enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Indy Eleven's place. The match ended 3-2 with Yoseke, Robinson and Volesky scoring.
Before that, Monterey Bay played out a USL Championship draw 1-1 when visiting Phoenix Rising.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Rio Grande Valley are coming to town in four days.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Monterey, who have participated in four training matches. Monterey Bay have won 0 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 3 games.
SJ Earthquakes form and stats
SJ Earthquakes's mission in US Open Cup last season failed in the round of 16.It might be tough going out on the road again for Earthquakes, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-3 versus Real Salt Lake. Espinoza has scored at least one goal for this side four games in a row. The efficiency! Yueill got a match rating of 7.41 in that game, top player of the team. Yueill hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 71 successful passes (of 77 total).
Before that, SJ Earthquakes secured a home win against Sporting KC with the score 3-0.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Major League Soccer trip to Austin.
Earthquakes played five friendlies in their break from official games, resulting in 3 victories, 1 draw and 1 defeat. In these five matches SJ Earthquakes scored 10 and conceded {7 goals}.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  H. Dixon 6 goals |   C. Espinoza 6 goals |  J. Ebobisse 4 goals |
Monterey Bay missing players
SJ Earthquakes missing players
| Monterey Bay | SJ Earthquakes | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Lost | L | 8 | 9 | ||
| 38 | 26 | Scored | S | 18 | 37 | ||
| 43 | 19 | Conceded | C | 33 | 41 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 88% | ||
| 56% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 79% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 29% | 20% | ||
| 56% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 71% | 64% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 20% | ||
| 3 | 3.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.1 | 4.5 | ||
| 4.1 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.9 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 7.3 | 8.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.6 | 11.5 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 3.5 | ||
| 48% | 54% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 40% | ||
| 8.8 | 6.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.4 | 12.2 | ||
| 3.5 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 3.7 | ||
