National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Nashville SC or Dallas that keep their silverware dream alive.
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.
Nashville SC form and stats
Nashville SC participated in US Open Cup the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.14 points is a decent return from 7 Major League Soccer games here for Nashville SC. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.
Nashville's last game was hosting Chicago Fire and winning 3-0. Mukhtar was absolutely essential when Nashville SC beat Chicago Fire 3-0, scoring three goals. Midfielder Mukhtar was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.8 (out of ten) in that game. Mukhtar scored three goals and hit two key passes.
Before that, Nashville SC had a Major League Soccer home game versus Atlanta United which ended with a victory 3-1.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Nashville handle that role? We have found 17 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 13 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Nashville SC as they are travelling to their away game against DC United in the Major League Soccer. That match is three days after this one.
Nashville SC have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 11 goals in 7 league matches. Defensively Nashville have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (3 in 7 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Dallas form and stats
Last season their US Open Cup adventure ended in the round of 32.Dallas delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Saint Louis City in their previous fixture.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Minnesota United.Dallas are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 4 draws and 10 defeats. From a total of 18 matches.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Major League Soccer trip to Austin.
Head 2 Head
Last six meetings between these teams: Nashville won three, Dallas triumphed in two and we saw one draw. two games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Mukhtar 6 goals |   J. Ferreira 5 goals |  J. Shaffelburg 3 goals |
Nashville SC missing players
Dallas missing players
| Nashville SC | Dallas | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 16 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 9 | Won | W | 2 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 39 | 31 | Scored | S | 9 | 26 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Conceded | C | 16 | 29 | ||
| 88% | 88% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 72% | ||
| 36% | 44% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 8% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 32% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 56% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 24% | ||
| 32% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 42% | 32% | ||
| 5.1 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.9 | 4.1 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 4.7 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 12.6 | 13.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 10.6 | ||
| 4 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.9 | ||
| 45% | 48% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 29% | ||
| 12 | 10.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.7 | 13 | ||
| 4 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | New England | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | Cincinnati | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 24 |
| 3 | Nashville SC | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | Atlanta United | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 18 |
| 5 | New York City | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | Columbus Crew | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | Philadelphia Union | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 8 | DC United | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 14 |
| 9 | Orlando City | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 14 |
| 10 | Inter Miami | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -1 | 12 |
| 11 | Toronto | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 12 |
| 12 | Charlotte | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -8 | 12 |
| 13 | Montreal Impact | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 14 | -8 | 12 |
| 14 | Chicago Fire | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 11 |
| 15 | New York RB | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
