Victories have not come easily for New Mexico United so far, and you could say the same about Rio Grande Valley. These weathered teams have the opportunity for some crucial points here.
- New Mexico United have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in USL Championship
- Rio Grande Valley have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in USL Championship
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.
New Mexico United form and stats
22 points is a decent return from 11 USL Championship games here at Isotopes Park for New Mexico United. The data says 6 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Isotopes Park.
Happy days for Mexico in their previous game, a USL Championship match away at San Antonio (placed 3rd) that ended with a 1-0 victory.
Ahead of that match, Mexico won a home game hosting Real Monarchs (2-1).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Mexico as they are travelling to their away game against Louisville City in the USL Championship. That match is four days after this one.
Mexico have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Isotopes Park with 17 goals in 11 league matches. Mexico have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Rio Grande Valley form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their USL Championship travels is 3 wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats.
Grande go into this game after a win, the home game against Atlanta United II that ended 3-2.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Colorado Springs.After this away game Grande return home for a USL Championship game against Real Monarchs. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Grande are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 17 away goals from 12 games (in the league). 16 goals have been conceded by Rio Grande Valley in these games.
Head 2 Head
The sides have met each other already this season, with the result Rio Grande Valley - Mexico 1-0 logged in the official records. Statistics for the previous three meetings between these two teams are: zero wins for Mexico, two draws and one win for Rio Grande Valley. Over 2,5 goals: zero times; under 2,5 goals: three games.Top Goalscorers
  E. Amo Takyi 9 goals | J. Azócar Segura 6 goals |  A. Moreno 4 goals |
New Mexico United missing players
Rio Grande Valley missing players
| New Mexico United | Rio Grande Valley | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 11 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 12 | 25 |
| 9 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 30 | 17 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 17 | 36 |
| 28 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 16 | 36 |
| 88% | 82% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 73% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 84% |
| 46% | 45% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 42% | 52% |
| 29% | 27% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 24% |
| 12% | 9% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 16% |
| 58% | 64% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 76% |
| 25% | 27% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 17% | 20% |
| 29% | 27% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 8% | 4% |
| 4.5 | 6.7 | 10 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.2 | 5.9 |
| 5.4 | 3.1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6.2 | 4.2 |
| 3 | 3.1 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.5 | 10.4 | 20 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3 | 7 | 10.8 |
| 3.8 | 5.1 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.7 | 3.7 |
| 33% | 30% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 53% | 39% |
- New Mexico United have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in USL Championship
- New Mexico United have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- New Mexico United have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Rio Grande Valley have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in USL Championship
- Rio Grande Valley have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Rio Grande Valley haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 23 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 37 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 47 |
| 2 | Colorado Springs | 26 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 55 | 41 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 22 | 14 | 43 |
| 3 | San Antonio | 25 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 36 | 28 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 40 |
| 4 | Austin Bold | 25 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 25 | 30 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 16 | -5 | 36 |
| 5 | New Mexico United | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 30 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 2 | 34 |
| 6 | Rio Grande Valley | 25 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 36 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 34 |
| 7 | Real Monarchs | 24 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 21 | 42 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 24 | -21 | 16 |