USL Championship match prediction: Little separates Charleston Battery and San Antonio in quality

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sat 13.May
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: MUSC Health Stadium (5113 seats)

USL Championship: Two sides who have done nicely as yet. Get to know Charleston Battery - San Antonio with this complete guide!

Insights:
  • Charleston Battery have the most scored goals in the second half (8) in USL Championship
  • San Antonio have the most points (10) away in USL Championship

These teams have little in common geographically as San Antonio have to travel 2000 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Charleston Battery form and stats

Charleston Battery have played 6 USL Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-2 (wins-draws-losses). Charleston Battery are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at MUSC Health Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.

Charleston's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-7 versus San Antonio. 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.

Before that, a defeat in the away fixture against Inter Miami in the US Open Cup. This is expected to be a close game, with Charleston Battery perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Charleston Battery as a small favourite), we find 10 games. Charleston Battery has won 3 of these, drawn 1 and lost 6.

Charleston has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches.

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San Antonio form and stats

3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. That’s the product of San Antonio, who have the most points (10) away in USL Championship, playing as the away team in the USL Championship this season. San Antonio love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.

Two away games in a row for San Antonio, whose manager Marcina could celebrate last time after the win against Charleston Battery. As you can tell from the results above, Antonio was very dominant against Charleston Battery, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 7-0 (!) with Garcia, Bailone (2), Adeniran and Oluwaseyi (2) providing the goals.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Las Vegas Lights with the score of 2-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by San Antonio in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for San Antonio, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, San Antonio are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's not easy to score on San Antonio as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other previously this season, with the match result Charleston - San Antonio 0-7 registered in the official records. Stats for the preceeding two meetings involving these two squads are: zero wins for Charleston Battery, zero draws and two wins for San Antonio. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: one game. Bailone likes to meet Charleston and have scored 3 goals in these matches.

Top Goalscorers

Charleston BatteryA. Williams
A. Williams
5 goals
Charleston BatteryN. Markanich
N. Markanich
3 goals
San AntonioI. Bailone
I. Bailone
3 goals

Charleston Battery missing players

San Antonio missing players

Charleston Battery San Antonio
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 6 2 Played P 1 5 10
5 2 1 Won W 0 3 5
3 2 1 Drew D 0 1 4
2 2 0 Lost L 1 1 1
14 8 3 Scored S 0 12 18
15 12 0 Conceded C 1 4 7
90% 83% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
80% 83% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 80% 70%
60% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 60% 40%
20% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 20%
20% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
60% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 60% 60%
30% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 30%
20% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 100% 20% 20%
 
3.4 4.3 3 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5.2 5.5
4.4 4.3 6 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.2 4.7
2.1 1.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 2 2.2
2 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.2 11.8 9 Shots (avg) S ( 11 12.4 13.1
3.8 4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 5 5.2
37% 33% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 48% 35%
 
10.3 9.2 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 4 8.4 8.6
4.1 3.7 1.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.2 3.4
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Charleston Battery have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Charleston Battery have the most conceded goals (12) at home in USL Championship
  • Charleston Battery have the most scored goals in the second half (8) in USL Championship
  • Charleston Battery have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • San Antonio have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • San Antonio have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • San Antonio have the most points (10) away in USL Championship
  • San Antonio haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

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

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.