National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Western Mass Pioneers or Flower City Union that keep their silverware dream alive.
The visiting Flower City Union played their last game only four days ago, a NISA match. That game was also an away game, at Maryland Bobcats. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Western Mass Pioneers form and stats
Pioneers have not come this way in the US Open Cup without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Brockton. Western Mass Pioneers was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the US Open Cup.Western Mass Pioneers have been very solid at home in the PDL so far, with 19 points collected from 7 matches (6-1-0). This has contributed greatly to their 1st position in the table.
Pioneers's previous match was a US Open Cup game also played at their own arena, finishing 2-0 versus Brockton. The home side hope to to continue in that form.
Before that game, the home loss against Carolina Dynamo with the scoreline 1-3.It's goals goals goals for Western Mass Pioneers who have scored 25 goals from 7 league home games. Western Mass Pioneers have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Flower City Union form and stats
Flower City Union lost away at Maryland Bobcats (1-6) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick.
A loss against Syracuse Pulse was the result prior to that, in a NISA home game.A new game in only one day for Flower, the NISA home match versus Michigan Stars. Busy days.
Head 2 Head
Western Mass Pioneers missing players
Flower City Union missing players
| Western Mass Pioneers | Flower City Union | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 53 | 37 | Scored | S | 1 | 1 | ||
| 21 | 13 | Conceded | C | 6 | 7 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | ||
| 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | ||
| 48% | 60% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | ||
| 8% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 50% | ||
| 40% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | ||
| 52% | 47% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | ||
| 16% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | ||
| 4.5 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 4.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12.6 | 15.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | ||
| 5.7 | 6.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
| 44% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | ||
| 8 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Western Mass Pioneers | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 22 | 32 |
| 2 | Boston | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 29 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 30 |
| 3 | Seacoast United Phantoms | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 29 |
| 4 | Black Rock | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 17 | -10 | 15 |
| 5 | Malaga City | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 14 | -17 | 8 |
| 6 | AC Connecticut | 14 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | -22 | 5 |
