El Paso Locomotive welcome Las Vegas Lights as obvious favourites: Full preview

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Thu 15.June
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: Southwest University Park (7500 seats)

Victory alone will please the El Paso Locomotive supporters in this Southwest University Park duel with Las Vegas Lights, seeing as they have a healthy lead on the opposition in the USL Championship standings.

Insights:
  • El Paso Locomotive is in the best form (5-1-0) in USL Championship

It's no vacation for neither El Paso Locomotive nor Las Vegas Lights as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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El Paso Locomotive form and stats

3-0-3 (win-draw-lost) are the USL Championship numbers at home for El Paso Locomotive so far this season. days ago.

Locomotive drew their last game, 2-2 away at San Antonio (placed 3rd).

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting New Mexico United.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for El Paso Locomotive, as the USL Championship home game vs Tampa Bay Rowdies is only three days away.

El Paso Locomotive has scored {6 goals-1} so far and conceded {6 goals-2} from 6 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Las Vegas Lights form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Las Vegas Lights so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 1-5-2 (win-draw-lose).

Las Vegas Lights failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Monterey Bay (placed 6th) that ended with defeat 1-2.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Phoenix Rising with the score of 1-0.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Lights played away with similar odds. This revealed 8 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 1 time, 3 were draws and the home team won as expected 4 times.

Sports betting fact: Both sides have scored goal(s) in 9 of this club's latest 12 league fixtures.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Las Vegas Lights manager Macip as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Colorado Springs.

Las Vegas Lights are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 8 games (in the league). In the opposite end, Lights have conceded 14 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the preceeding five meetings involving these two squads are: three wins for El Paso Locomotive, zero draws and two wins for Las Vegas Lights. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

LocomotiveL. Solignac
L. Solignac
7 goals
El Paso LocomotiveR. Zacarias
R. Zacarias
3 goals
El Paso LocomotiveP. Petrovic
P. Petrovic
3 goals

El Paso Locomotive missing players

Las Vegas Lights missing players

El Paso Locomotive Las Vegas Lights
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
13 6 1 Played P 1 8 12
8 3 1 Won W 0 1 1
2 0 0 Drew D 1 5 6
3 3 0 Lost L 0 2 5
21 6 1 Scored S 1 9 12
14 6 0 Conceded C 1 14 20
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 92%
69% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 75%
62% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 50%
31% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 33%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 17%
54% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 75%
38% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 17%
8% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 17%
 
4.8 6.2 8 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.2 4.5
4.1 3.3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.8 4.6
2.8 2.8 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 8 3 2.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
13.8 15.5 20 Shots (avg) S ( 6 10.8 12.7
4.4 4.3 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.2 3.9
37% 23% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 35% 26%
 
10.9 11 10 Shots against (avg) S A 12 13.1 12
3.7 4.2 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.6 4.2
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • El Paso Locomotive have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • El Paso Locomotive haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • El Paso Locomotive is in the best form (5-1-0) 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 Sacramento Republic 14 8 5 1 26 8 7 6 1 0 18 3 7 2 4 1 8 5 18 29
2 El Paso Locomotive 13 8 2 3 21 14 6 3 0 3 6 6 7 5 2 0 15 8 7 26
3 San Antonio 14 6 6 2 25 14 8 3 5 0 13 9 6 3 1 2 12 5 11 24
4 San Diego Loyal 14 6 4 4 22 19 7 4 1 2 11 7 7 2 3 2 11 12 3 22
5 Oakland Roots 13 6 3 4 20 14 5 3 1 1 7 2 8 3 2 3 13 12 6 21
6 Monterey Bay 14 5 5 4 24 19 8 3 3 2 16 11 6 2 2 2 8 8 5 20
7 Colorado Springs 14 6 1 7 17 18 6 3 1 2 10 6 8 3 0 5 7 12 -1 19
8 Phoenix Rising 13 4 5 4 16 17 6 2 3 1 11 8 7 2 2 3 5 9 -1 17
9 New Mexico United 12 4 2 6 18 19 4 2 1 1 6 4 8 2 1 5 12 15 -1 14
10 Orange County 15 3 4 8 12 23 9 3 2 4 10 11 6 0 2 4 2 12 -11 13
11 Rio Grande Valley 13 2 6 5 12 22 8 0 5 3 8 16 5 2 1 2 4 6 -10 12
12 Las Vegas Lights 12 1 6 5 12 20 4 0 1 3 3 6 8 1 5 2 9 14 -8 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.