Betting preview: Birmingham Legion faced with a tough challenge when North Carolina visits

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Date: Sun 14.July
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)

Struggling Birmingham Legion will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying North Carolina in the upcoming league round. It’s 31st vs 10th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

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 Birmingham Legion and North Carolina.

North Carolina have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Birmingham Legion form and stats

With 2 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, Birmingham Legion, who have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in USL Championship, are certainly not brimming with confidence.

Birmingham Legion's previous game was a USL Championship match also played at home, ending 1-0 versus North Carolina. The home side are looking to build on that result. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Pittsburgh Riverhounds (1-4).

The lack of attacking qualities in Birmingham Legion means that they have only scored 4 goals in 9 home games, less than half a goal per match. Birmingham Legion have conceded 11 in these home matches.

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North Carolina form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their travels is 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

It might be tough going out on the road again for North Carolina, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Birmingham Legion. A draw for North Carolina before that, at their own venue hosting Charlotte Independence (1-1).

North Carolina are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 10 games. As opposed to that, North Carolina have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Birmingham Legion - North Carolina 1-0. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's 1 Birmingham Legion victory, 1 draw and 0 North Carolina wins. 0 of these games ended with three goals or more, 2 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

R. Kristo
2 goals
P. Kasim
1 goals
C. Hoffman
1 goals

Birmingham Legion missing players

North Carolina missing players

Birmingham Legion North Carolina
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
18 9 4 Played 4 10 18
4 2 0 Won 1 4 8
4 2 0 Drew 2 3 7
10 5 4 Lost 1 3 3
15 4 0 Scored 5 14 28
36 11 7 Conceded 5 10 15
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 100% 90% 89%
67% 44% 50% Over 1.5 75% 70% 72%
56% 22% 25% Over 2.5 50% 60% 44%
44% 11% 0% Over 3.5 25% 20% 22%
28% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 11%
39% 11% 0% BTTS 75% 60% 61%
22% 33% 0% Clean Sheets 25% 30% 33%
50% 67% 100% Failed To Score 0% 20% 17%
 
4.4 6.4 5.3 Corners For (avg) 4.5 3.6 4.3
4.5 4.5 5 Corners Against (avg) 3.8 5.8 4.9
2.1 2.4 1.3 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.2 1.3 1.2
1 0 0 Red Cards 0 1 2
Key stats this season:
  • Birmingham Legion have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Birmingham Legion have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • North Carolina have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • North Carolina have scored at least twice as many goals away as Birmingham Legion have scored home.

Birmingham Legion
All US Open Cup Club Friendlies USL Championship
All Home Away
15-06-19 USL Charlotte Independence 4 - 1 Birmingham Legion
23-06-19 USL Birmingham Legion 2 - 2 Hartford Athletic
26-06-19 USL Indy Eleven 3 - 0 Birmingham Legion
29-06-19 USL Pittsburgh Riverhounds 4 - 1 Birmingham Legion
14-07-19 USL Birmingham Legion 1 - 0 North Carolina
21-07-19 USL Birmingham Legion 00:00 Atlanta United II
28-07-19 USL Birmingham Legion - Charlotte Independence
02-08-19 USL Ottawa Fury 23:00 Birmingham Legion
10-08-19 USL Tampa Bay Rowdies 23:30 Birmingham Legion
18-08-19 USL Birmingham Legion - Memphis 901
North Carolina
All US Open Cup NASL Club Friendlies USL Championship
All Home Away
15-06-19 USL North Carolina 2 - 0 Swope Park Rangers
23-06-19 USL Saint Louis FC 2 - 2 North Carolina
29-06-19 USL North Carolina 1 - 0 Nashville
04-07-19 USL North Carolina 1 - 1 Charlotte Independence
14-07-19 USL Birmingham Legion 1 - 0 North Carolina
17-07-19 USL North Carolina 23:00 Loudoun United
20-07-19 USL Pittsburgh Riverhounds 23:00 North Carolina
27-07-19 USL North Carolina 23:00 Atlanta United II
03-08-19 USL North Carolina 23:00 Indy Eleven
11-08-19 USL Memphis 901 00:30 North Carolina

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Tampa Bay Rowdies 19 11 7 1 30 12 10 5 4 1 15 7 9 6 3 0 15 5 18 40
2 Phoenix Rising 17 11 4 2 43 14 9 6 3 0 28 8 8 5 1 2 15 6 29 37
3 New York RB II 19 11 4 4 45 24 12 8 2 2 34 12 7 3 2 2 11 12 21 37
4 Indy Eleven 16 10 4 2 25 10 9 5 4 0 9 2 7 5 0 2 16 8 15 34
5 Fresno FC 18 9 7 2 32 18 9 5 3 1 16 9 9 4 4 1 16 9 14 34
6 Reno 1868 17 9 4 4 36 23 9 6 2 1 23 12 8 3 2 3 13 11 13 31
7 Nashville 18 8 5 5 31 19 7 3 2 2 13 7 11 5 3 3 18 12 12 29
8 Louisville City 17 8 5 4 26 18 10 6 2 2 16 10 7 2 3 2 10 8 8 29
9 Austin Bold 19 8 5 6 26 23 10 6 3 1 19 11 9 2 2 5 7 12 3 29
10 North Carolina 17 7 7 3 24 14 7 3 4 0 10 4 10 4 3 3 14 10 10 28
11 Ottawa Fury 17 7 7 3 27 19 8 5 2 1 14 8 9 2 5 2 13 11 8 28
12 El Paso Locomotive 18 7 7 4 22 17 9 4 2 3 14 11 9 3 5 1 8 6 5 28
13 Portland Timbers II 18 7 6 5 35 29 9 3 4 2 14 12 9 4 2 3 21 17 6 27
14 Pittsburgh Riverhounds 17 6 8 3 29 18 9 4 5 0 16 7 8 2 3 3 13 11 11 26
15 Real Monarchs 16 8 2 6 36 28 9 6 1 2 26 14 7 2 1 4 10 14 8 26
16 New Mexico United 19 6 8 5 34 31 7 3 3 1 15 10 12 3 5 4 19 21 3 26
17 OKC Energy 19 6 8 5 25 27 10 4 4 2 12 12 9 2 4 3 13 15 -2 26
18 Sacramento Republic 16 8 1 7 24 19 8 5 1 2 15 7 8 3 0 5 9 12 5 25
19 Charleston Battery 17 5 8 4 23 22 10 4 6 0 16 9 7 1 2 4 7 13 1 23
20 Las Vegas Lights 18 6 5 7 27 27 10 5 4 1 21 7 8 1 1 6 6 20 0 23
21 Charlotte Independence 20 5 8 7 23 29 10 5 1 4 17 17 10 0 7 3 6 12 -6 23
22 LA Galaxy II 19 5 8 6 29 39 10 3 5 2 18 20 9 2 3 4 11 19 -10 23
23 Orange County 18 5 6 7 27 30 9 4 2 3 18 15 9 1 4 4 9 15 -3 21
24 Rio Grande Valley 18 5 5 8 29 33 10 4 3 3 15 10 8 1 2 5 14 23 -4 20
25 San Antonio 17 5 4 8 22 24 9 5 3 1 15 7 8 0 1 7 7 17 -2 19
26 Bethlehem Steel 19 5 4 10 29 38 12 2 3 7 16 25 7 3 1 3 13 13 -9 19
27 Saint Louis FC 15 4 6 5 18 18 6 2 3 1 11 9 9 2 3 4 7 9 0 18
28 Tulsa Roughnecks 18 4 5 9 25 38 7 3 1 3 12 10 11 1 4 6 13 28 -13 17
29 Colorado Springs 19 5 2 12 17 33 10 4 0 6 9 12 9 1 2 6 8 21 -16 17
30 Loudoun United 14 4 4 6 20 22 4 1 1 2 7 8 10 3 3 4 13 14 -2 16
31 Birmingham Legion 18 4 4 10 15 36 9 2 2 5 4 11 9 2 2 5 11 25 -21 16
32 Memphis 901 16 3 5 8 16 22 7 1 2 4 7 10 9 2 3 4 9 12 -6 14
33 Atlanta United II 17 3 4 10 15 37 8 2 0 6 6 18 9 1 4 4 9 19 -22 13
34 Hartford Athletic 19 3 4 12 19 42 8 2 3 3 10 13 11 1 1 9 9 29 -23 13
35 Swope Park Rangers 17 2 6 9 21 36 10 2 4 4 17 21 7 0 2 5 4 15 -15 12
36 Seattle Sounders II 18 1 5 12 13 49 7 1 2 4 9 16 11 0 3 8 4 33 -36 8

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