Soccer game preview: Home crowds with high optimism before Charleston Battery - Detroit City

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Wed 07.June
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: MUSC Health Stadium (5113 seats)

Victory alone will please the Charleston Battery followers in this MUSC Health Stadium duel with Detroit City, as they enjoy a healthy lead on the opposition in the USL Championship standings.

Insights:
  • Charleston Battery have the most conceded goals (16) at home in USL Championship
  • Detroit City have the fewest scored goals (7) in USL Championship

This promises to be an action-packed game with lots of spark and excitement as both teams are well recovered since they last ran out on the pitch. Bring it on!

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Charleston Battery form and stats

Charleston Battery have collected 11 points from their USL Championship home games so far after 3-2-3.

The Charleston Battery crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-4 to Indy Eleven here at MUSC Health Stadium. As you see from the result above, Charleston Battery suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.

In the game before, an away victory match versus Rio Grande Valley with a 2-0 scoreline.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Charleston's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 4 games, won 2 matches, drawn 0 and lost 2.

Some information for those who like to bet on "both teams to score yes/no: This side have finished 5 league rounds in a row with only one (or none) team finding the net.

There will be little rest for Charleston Battery after this match as they are travelling to Pittsburgh Riverhounds for a USL Championship game in only three days.

Charleston Battery are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 8 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches.

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Detroit City form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Detroit City so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-4 (win-draw-lose). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Detroit City have lost on their last two travels.

The Detroit goalkeeper Nathan Steinwascher is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 217 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Detroit City won their last game, 1-0 versus Birmingham Legion played at home.

Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against San Antonio.

Few goals the story here? 9 of this team's most recent 10 league rounds have had two goals or less.

The visitors have scored 4 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Detroit City struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 9 goals conceded from these games. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Charleston zero wins, zero draws and Detroit City two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Charleston BatteryA. Williams
A. Williams
7 goals
Charleston BatteryN. Markanich
N. Markanich
3 goals
Charleston BatteryA. Rodriquez
A. Rodriquez
2 goals

Charleston Battery missing players

Detroit City missing players

Charleston Battery Detroit City
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
13 8 1 Played P 2 6 12
7 3 1 Won W 0 1 3
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
3 3 0 Lost L 2 4 7
17 9 3 Scored S 1 4 7
19 16 2 Conceded C 6 9 13
92% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 92%
77% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 33% 25%
54% 62% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 33% 17%
23% 38% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 17%
15% 25% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 17% 8%
46% 38% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 25%
38% 38% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 25%
23% 38% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 67% 58%
 
3.3 4 3 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3 2.7
4.5 4.5 2 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.3 5
2.1 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.3 2.2
3 3 1 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
10.7 11 14 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 11.7 10.6
3.5 3.6 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 2 2.3
38% 31% 60% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 33% 25%
 
11 9.4 7 Shots against (avg) S A 17 15.3 14.5
4.5 3.6 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 4.8 4.4
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Charleston Battery have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Charleston Battery have scored more than double the goals of Detroit City.
  • Charleston Battery have the most clean sheets (3) at home in USL Championship
  • Charleston Battery have the most conceded goals (16) at home in USL Championship
  • Charleston Battery have the the worst goal difference (-7) at home in USL Championship
  • Charleston Battery have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Detroit City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Detroit City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Detroit City have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in USL Championship
  • Detroit City have the fewest scored goals (7) in USL Championship
  • Detroit City have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in USL Championship
  • Detroit City have the most matches under the total-line (10) in USL Championship

  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 13 7 3 3 17 19 8 3 2 3 9 16 5 4 1 0 8 3 -2 24
2 Pittsburgh Riverhounds 13 6 5 2 18 11 5 4 1 0 10 3 8 2 4 2 8 8 7 23
3 Tampa Bay Rowdies 13 6 3 4 19 13 8 4 2 2 14 8 5 2 1 2 5 5 6 21
4 Louisville City 12 6 3 3 12 13 5 3 0 2 6 6 7 3 3 1 6 7 -1 21
5 Memphis 901 10 5 3 2 20 13 6 2 2 2 12 11 4 3 1 0 8 2 7 18
6 Birmingham Legion 13 5 1 7 17 23 6 2 1 3 10 13 7 3 0 4 7 10 -6 16
7 Indy Eleven 12 4 3 5 13 14 6 1 2 3 4 8 6 3 1 2 9 6 -1 15
8 Tulsa Roughnecks 13 2 7 4 16 16 6 1 3 2 8 7 7 1 4 2 8 9 0 13
9 Miami FC II 13 2 6 5 14 19 8 2 4 2 11 8 5 0 2 3 3 11 -5 12
10 Detroit City 12 3 2 7 7 13 6 2 1 3 3 4 6 1 1 4 4 9 -6 11
11 Loudoun United 13 3 1 9 13 22 7 2 1 4 8 8 6 1 0 5 5 14 -9 10
12 Hartford Athletic 12 2 3 7 15 24 6 1 2 3 4 8 6 1 1 4 11 16 -9 9

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.