Austin Bold receive Tacoma Defiance as obvious favourites: Big match preview

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Thu 07.October
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: Bold Stadium (5803 seats)

Austin Bold are keen to increase their points at their own stadium in this upcoming fixture versus Tacoma Defiance.

Insights:
  • Austin Bold have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Tacoma Defiance have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a USL Championship game only four days ago. That game, against Sacramento Republic, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Tacoma Defiance.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Tacoma Defiance, who are travelling more than 3400 kilometers to play this game.

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Austin Bold form and stats

Austin Bold have collected 20 points from their USL Championship home games so far after 5-5-3.

Austin faced defeat in their previous match, away at Colorado Springs (1-3).

Preceding that game was the home draw versus El Paso Locomotive that ended 2-2.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the USL Championship game versus OKC Energy in only four days. This game is also played here at Bold Stadium.

Austin Bold has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. On the other hand, Austin have conceded 14 goals.

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Tacoma Defiance form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Tacoma Defiance so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-8 (win-draw-lose). It's all red in the travel logs of Tacoma Defiance, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.

There might be some fixture complaints from Defiance as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the USL Championship match against Sacramento Republic (1-3).

Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Phoenix Rising.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Orange County in just three days.

The visitors have scored 12 goals from 13 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As for defending, Tacoma Defiance rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 23 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Austin victories, one draw and one Tacoma Defiance win. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Tacoma DefianceS. Adeniran
S. Adeniran
7 goals
Austin BoldX. Báez Gamiño
X. Báez Gamiño
5 goals
AustinF. Garcia
F. Garcia
4 goals

Austin Bold missing players

Tacoma Defiance missing players

Austin Bold Tacoma Defiance
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
25 13 4 Played P 0 13 25
9 5 2 Won W 0 2 8
9 5 2 Drew D 0 3 6
7 3 0 Lost L 0 8 11
25 15 5 Scored S 0 12 29
30 14 2 Conceded C 0 23 35
88% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 92% 92%
64% 69% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 77% 76%
40% 38% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 54% 52%
20% 15% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 31% 28%
8% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
52% 54% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 54% 60%
36% 31% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 15% 20%
24% 23% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 28%
 
4.6 6.9 10 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.8 5.2
5.4 3.1 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6 4.4
3 3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.2 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
8.7 8.9 6.8 Shots (avg) S ( 0 6.7 7.9
3.6 3.8 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.5 3.2
28% 31% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 36% 36%
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Austin Bold have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Austin Bold have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Tacoma Defiance have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Tacoma Defiance have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 El Paso Locomotive 25 14 9 2 39 19 12 10 2 0 22 5 13 4 7 2 17 14 20 51
2 Colorado Springs 27 12 8 7 56 42 15 7 5 3 30 20 12 5 3 4 26 22 14 44
3 San Antonio 26 12 7 7 37 28 12 5 4 3 19 13 14 7 3 4 18 15 9 43
4 New Mexico United 26 10 7 9 33 31 12 7 4 1 19 9 14 3 3 8 14 22 2 37
5 Rio Grande Valley 27 10 7 10 39 38 14 7 2 5 22 20 13 3 5 5 17 18 1 37
6 Austin Bold 25 9 9 7 25 30 13 5 5 3 15 14 12 4 4 4 10 16 -5 36
7 Real Monarchs 27 4 5 18 21 46 12 3 3 6 12 18 15 1 2 12 9 28 -25 17

Read more about USL Championship

The USL Championship, formerly known as United Soccer League (USL) is the second level of league football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. The USL Championship has 36 teams divided into two conference, Eastern and Western. Nearly half the teams are reserve teams/affiliates of the biggest US clubs.