Weidner Field: Colorado Springs vs El Paso Locomotive USL Championship preview

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Thu 03.September
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: Weidner Field

Colorado Springs hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 7 points and a 3rd position in the USL Championship table. Visiting El Paso Locomotive holds 2nd place with 15 pts.

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 Colorado Springs and El Paso Locomotive.

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Colorado Springs form and stats

Colorado Springs's struggle is real here at Weidner Field with only 3 points collected from 6 USL Championship games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-3-3. Three draws in a row here at Weidner Field for Colorado, who might be willing to risk more at some point in hope of a win. The last three games played by Colorado, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.

The spoils were shared in Colorado's previous game, also at home. Visiting New Mexico United (placed 1st) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. In the match before that, Colorado hosted Austin Bold and drew the game 4-4.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Colorado as they have a new game in only three days, a USL Championship match thankfully also at home. OKC Energy are visiting.

Colorado are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 6 games. Colorado have conceded 10 from these games.

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El Paso Locomotive form and stats

1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of El Paso Locomotive, who have the most clean sheets (4) in USL Championship, playing as the away team in the USL Championship this season.

El Paso Locomotive are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the USL Championship against Real Monarchs (placed 4th). Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Colorado Springs that ended 0-0.

A quick return to home after this game, as El Paso Locomotive are hosting New Mexico United in the USL Championship only three days away.

Locomotive are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 2 goals from 4 away games. Locomotive are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 4 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Colorado Springs - El Paso Locomotive 0-0. Colorado Springs-El Paso Locomotive H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Colorado Springs zero wins, El Paso Locomotive three wins, one draw. one of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Colorado SpringsC. Volesky
C. Volesky
3 goals
El Paso LocomotiveJ. Gómez Gómez
J. Gómez Gómez
3 goals
Colorado SpringsG. Lebese
G. Lebese
2 goals

Colorado Springs missing players

El Paso Locomotive missing players

Colorado Springs El Paso Locomotive
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 6 0 Played P 1 4 9
1 0 0 Won W 1 1 4
4 3 0 Drew D 0 2 3
4 3 0 Lost L 0 1 2
14 7 0 Scored S 1 2 12
18 10 0 Conceded C 0 3 10
89% 83% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 50% 78%
78% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 25% 56%
67% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 56%
33% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 33%
33% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 11%
78% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 56%
11% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 75% 44%
22% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 22%
 
4.6 5.8 0 Corners for (avg) C F 7 5.5 5.2
3.4 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 7 6 4.1
2 1.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.5 2.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
66 43 0 Total Shots T S 8 38 94
31 17 0 Shots on Target S O 3 12 32
42% 35% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 17% 38%
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Colorado Springs has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0)
  • Colorado Springs has the most conceded goals (10) at home
  • Colorado Springs has the most conceded goals (18)
  • Colorado Springs has the most conceded goals in the first half (11)
  • Colorado Springs has the most points from losing position (2)
  • Colorado Springs has the most scored goals in the second half (11)
  • Colorado Springs have scored at least twice as many goals at home as El Paso Locomotive have scored away.
  • Colorado Springs have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Colorado Springs have yet to win a game at home.
  • Colorado Springs is in the worst form (0-3-3)
  • El Paso Locomotive has the fewest conceded goals (10)
  • El Paso Locomotive has the fewest conceded goals (3) away
  • El Paso Locomotive has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4)
  • El Paso Locomotive has the fewest scored goals (2) away
  • El Paso Locomotive has the most clean sheets (4)
  • El Paso Locomotive has the most matches under the total-line (4)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 New Mexico United 10 6 2 2 17 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 6 2 2 17 12 5 20
2 El Paso Locomotive 9 4 3 2 12 10 5 3 1 1 10 7 4 1 2 1 2 3 2 15
3 Colorado Springs 9 1 4 4 14 18 6 0 3 3 7 10 3 1 1 1 7 8 -4 7
4 Real Monarchs 8 1 1 6 7 13 5 0 1 4 4 9 3 1 0 2 3 4 -6 4

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.