Another fun-filled game in USL Championship as Colorado Springs welcome Rio Grande Valley

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sun 12.September
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: Weidner Field (5000 seats)

Colorado Springs have delivered good football this season, sitting at 2nd spot in the table. Rio Grande Valley have a view both direction in the table from the 4th place.

Insights:
  • Colorado Springs have the most scored goals (49) in USL Championship
  • Rio Grande Valley is in the worst form (0-2-4)

Colorado Springs have less rest than Rio Grande Valley in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a USL Championship game only three days ago. This match was also played here at Weidner Field. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Rio Grande Valley have had more rest.

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Colorado Springs form and stats

6-2-3 (win-draw-lost) are the USL Championship numbers at home for Colorado Springs so far this season. Colorado are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

A nice win for Colorado Springs last time playing, versus Real Monarchs. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with H. Barry and José Torres scoring for the victors.

Heartbreak before that as Colorado lost 2-3 at New Mexico United's place.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Colorado handle that role? We have found four games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are one win, one draw and two defeats.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Colorado as they have a new game in only four days, a USL Championship match thankfully also at home. El Paso Locomotive are visiting.

Colorado can score goals in their home matches. After 11 league matches they have found the net 25 times. Colorado have conceded 17 from these games.

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Rio Grande Valley form and stats

The visitors are W3-D4-L4 on the road this term. That's in the USL Championship. Grande seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Grande's last game was the home draw against Loudoun United (1-1).

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against OKC Energy wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

Grande are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and one defeat. From a total of four matches.

Grande have scored 16 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. Rio Grande Valley have conceded 15 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Rio Grande Valley - Colorado Springs 2-5 was the scoreline in these teams' last head-to-head fixture, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Colorado two wins, two draws and Rio Grande Valley six victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ColoradoH. Barry
H. Barry
21 goals
Colorado SpringsM. Ngalina
M. Ngalina
8 goals
Rio Grande ValleyE. Amo Takyi
E. Amo Takyi
8 goals

Colorado Springs missing players

Rio Grande Valley missing players

Colorado Springs Rio Grande Valley
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
22 11 2 Played P 2 11 22
10 6 0 Won W 0 3 8
5 2 1 Drew D 0 4 6
7 3 1 Lost L 2 4 8
49 25 3 Scored S 1 16 31
38 17 4 Conceded C 4 15 31
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 91% 82%
73% 64% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 45% 50%
64% 64% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 27% 23%
36% 36% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 14%
82% 82% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 73% 73%
9% 9% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 23%
9% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 9% 5%
 
5.3 8.6 9 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.1 5.7
5.1 2.6 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 10 6.3 4.3
2.5 2.3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.6 2.5
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.6 12 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 7.2 10.6
5 6.1 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.7 3.5
45% 37% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 53% 41%
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • All of Colorado Springs's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Colorado Springs have the most conceded goals (38) in USL Championship
  • Colorado Springs have the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in USL Championship
  • Colorado Springs have the most matches over the total-line (15) in USL Championship
  • Colorado Springs have the most points from losing position (18) in USL Championship
  • Colorado Springs have the most scored goals (25) at home in USL Championship
  • Colorado Springs have the most scored goals (49) in USL Championship
  • Colorado Springs have the most scored goals in the first half (24) in USL Championship
  • Colorado Springs have the most scored goals in the second half (25) in USL Championship
  • Colorado Springs have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Colorado Springs have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Colorado Springs haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Rio Grande Valley have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Rio Grande Valley have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Rio Grande Valley haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Rio Grande Valley is in the worst form (0-2-4)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 El Paso Locomotive 20 12 6 2 33 16 10 8 2 0 19 5 10 4 4 2 14 11 17 42
2 Colorado Springs 22 10 5 7 49 38 11 6 2 3 25 17 11 4 3 4 24 21 11 35
3 San Antonio 21 8 7 6 32 26 11 5 4 2 19 12 10 3 3 4 13 14 6 31
4 Rio Grande Valley 22 8 6 8 31 31 11 5 2 4 15 16 11 3 4 4 16 15 0 30
5 Austin Bold 21 7 8 6 20 25 11 4 4 3 12 12 10 3 4 3 8 13 -5 29
6 New Mexico United 21 7 7 7 27 26 10 5 4 1 15 8 11 2 3 6 12 18 1 28
7 Real Monarchs 21 4 4 13 20 37 10 3 2 5 12 17 11 1 2 8 8 20 -17 16

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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.