USL Championship game tips and stats, news and lineups for the Louisville City vs Sporting Kansas City II battle

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sat 09.October
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Lynn Family Stadium (14000 seats)

The USL Championship league standings tell the truth about these contenders to this date, with Louisville City leading Sporting Kansas City II by 32 points. Tipsway full preview:

Insights:
  • Louisville City have the most scored goals (52) in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the most conceded goals (50) in USL Championship

The visiting Sporting Kansas City II played their last game only three days ago, a USL Championship match. That game, against Memphis 901, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Sporting Kansas City II.

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Louisville City form and stats

32 points is a decent return from 14 USL Championship games here at Lynn Family Stadium for Louisville City. The data says 10 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

A nice win for Louisville last time playing, versus New Mexico United. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-1 with P. DelPiccolo (2) and J. McLaughlin scoring for the victors.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Atlanta United II that finished 1-1.

There will be little rest for Louisville after this match as they are travelling to Memphis 901 for a USL Championship game in only four days.

The Louisville manager D. Cruz has got the team scoring with 30 from 14 home games in the league. Louisville City are not conceding a lot of goals here at Lynn Family Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 13 from 14 matches.

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Sporting Kansas City II form and stats

There's been little loot from Sporting Kansas City II's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 13 away games in the USL Championship. Sporting Kansas City II only have 2 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 3 draws. It's all red in the travel logs of Kansas, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Kansas, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-3 versus Memphis 901 (placed 4th).

Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Birmingham Legion.

A new game in only four days for Sporting Kansas City II, the USL Championship home match versus Atlanta United II. Busy days.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Kansas have scored 14 goals in 13 league games away. Sporting Kansas City II have conceded 26 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides meet on the pitch this campaign, as the history books show this recent game: Louisville - Sporting Kansas City II 4-1. Data for the former ten meetings between these two contenders are: eight wins for Louisville City, zero draws and two wins for Sporting Kansas City II. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

Louisville CityC. Lancaster
C. Lancaster
15 goals
Sporting Kansas City IIE. Mushagalusa
E. Mushagalusa
8 goals
Louisville CityP. DelPiccolo
P. DelPiccolo
7 goals

Louisville City missing players

Sporting Kansas City II missing players

Louisville City Sporting Kansas City II
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
27 14 4 Played P 1 13 28
15 10 2 Won W 0 2 4
7 2 1 Drew D 0 3 8
5 2 1 Lost L 1 8 16
52 30 8 Scored S 2 14 30
30 13 5 Conceded C 4 26 50
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 89%
89% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 69% 71%
56% 64% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 46% 50%
30% 29% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 46% 36%
22% 14% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 31% 25%
70% 64% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 54% 57%
22% 29% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 15% 18%
11% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 38% 36%
 
6.6 7.9 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.8 5.8
2.9 2.5 2.5 Corners against (avg) C A 10 7.2 5.3
2.6 2.8 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.9 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.9 11.9 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7 6.1 10
4.8 5.4 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.1 3.4
40% 40% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 52% 32%
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Louisville City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Louisville City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Louisville City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sporting Kansas City II have scored away.
  • Louisville City have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (14) in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have the most points (32) at home in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have the most scored goals (30) at home in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have the most scored goals (52) in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have the most scored goals in the first half (23) in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have the most scored goals in the second half (29) in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have the the best goal difference (+17) at home in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have the the best goal difference (+22) in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Louisville City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Louisville City haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the fewest points (9) away in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the most conceded goals (26) away in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the most conceded goals (50) in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the the worst goal difference (-12) away in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have the the worst goal difference (-20) in USL Championship
  • Sporting Kansas City II have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Louisville City 27 15 7 5 52 30 14 10 2 2 30 13 13 5 5 3 22 17 22 52
2 Birmingham Legion 27 15 5 7 39 28 12 7 2 3 19 13 15 8 3 4 20 15 11 50
3 Tulsa Roughnecks 26 12 3 11 38 41 13 7 1 5 23 21 13 5 2 6 15 20 -3 39
4 Memphis 901 26 10 8 8 32 30 12 5 3 4 14 13 14 5 5 4 18 17 2 38
5 OKC Energy 28 8 11 9 29 31 15 4 7 4 15 13 13 4 4 5 14 18 -2 35
6 Atlanta United II 29 7 10 12 42 48 16 4 7 5 26 24 13 3 3 7 16 24 -6 31
7 Indy Eleven 28 8 7 13 29 40 14 4 3 7 12 15 14 4 4 6 17 25 -11 31
8 Sporting Kansas City II 28 4 8 16 30 50 15 2 5 8 16 24 13 2 3 8 14 26 -20 20

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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.