Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Pittsburgh Riverhounds & 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!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Columbus Crew have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 3-4-1 (win-draw-loss) from eight matches.
It's no vacation for neither Pittsburgh Riverhounds nor Columbus Crew as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Pittsburgh Riverhounds form and stats
Last season their US Open Cup adventure ended in the 3rd round.When playing at home in the USL Championship, Pittsburgh Riverhounds have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games.
The Riverhounds followers enjoyed the previous game, watching their team host Las Vegas Lights and win 4-1.
Ahead of that match, Pittsburgh Riverhounds won a home game hosting Birmingham Legion (2-1).There will be little rest for Pittsburgh Riverhounds after this match as they are travelling to Loudoun United for a USL Championship game in only four days.
Riverhounds can score goals in their home matches. After 4 league matches they have found the net 9 times. From these home matches, Pittsburgh Riverhounds have conceded only 3 goals.
Columbus Crew form and stats
Columbus Crew's mission in US Open Cup last season failed in the 3rd round.Columbus Crew lost away at Cincinnati (2-3) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. The attacker Zelarayán got a match rating of 7.44 in that game. Zelarayán scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 41 successful passes (of 49 total).
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs LA Galaxy.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Major League Soccer trip to Nashville SC.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Dikwa Lega 9 goals |   L. Zelarayán 6 goals |  A. Morris 3 goals |
Pittsburgh Riverhounds missing players
Columbus Crew missing players
| Pittsburgh Riverhounds | Columbus Crew | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 6 | 7 | ||
| 31 | 15 | Scored | S | 20 | 44 | ||
| 22 | 6 | Conceded | C | 21 | 30 | ||
| 80% | 73% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 84% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 32% | ||
| 4% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 16% | ||
| 56% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 83% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 28% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 8% | ||
| 3.2 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.9 | 3.4 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.7 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 8.8 | 9.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.2 | 13 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.7 | ||
| 34% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 38% | ||
| 6.8 | 5.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.8 | 9 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Charleston Battery | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 21 |
| 2 | Pittsburgh Riverhounds | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 17 |
| 3 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| 4 | Louisville City | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 17 |
| 5 | Birmingham Legion | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -5 | 16 |
| 6 | Memphis 901 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| 7 | Indy Eleven | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -4 | 12 |
| 8 | Miami FC II | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -1 | 11 |
| 9 | Loudoun United | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -5 | 10 |
| 10 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 9 |
| 11 | Hartford Athletic | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -6 | 8 |
| 12 | Detroit City | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 8 |
