North Carolina will battle it out with Charleston Battery in this USL Championship game. All you need to know about the match can be found here!
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 North Carolina and Charleston Battery.
North Carolina form and stats
Three USL Championship home games done for North Carolina, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.
The Carolina fans got no joy from their last match, a USL Championship game also here at WakeMed Soccer Park: A 0-2 defeat against Birmingham Legion (placed 1st). A strong away win before that one, visiting Memphis 901 and winning 1-0.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Carolina have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won two times, drawn two and lost zero.
Carolina have scored 1 goal here in 3 league matches, a depressing statistic. 3 goals have been conceded.
Charleston Battery form and stats
1-2-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Charleston Battery in their USL Championship matches away. Visiting Charleston Battery has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.
Charleston Battery won their last game, 3-2 versus Atlanta United II played at home. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Charlotte Independence that ended 1-1.
What a finish in the last match, as Charleston came back from being down 0-2 and secured a very satisfying victory through Z. Lewis's goal in the 90th minute. The end of the last match, against Atlanta United II, was very satisfying as Z. Lewis scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
We have checked recent matches where Charleston have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those three games were zero victories, one draw and two defeats.
The visitors have scored 3 goals from 4 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 4 goals have been conceded by Charleston Battery in these games.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Carolina, three draws and five wins for Charleston Battery. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  Z. Lewis 5 goals |  A. Fortune 2 goals | R. Kristo 1 goals |
North Carolina missing players
Charleston Battery missing players
| North Carolina | Charleston Battery | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 40% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 86% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 57% |
| 40% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 40% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 6 | 8.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 6.3 | 7 |
| 5 | 4.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.3 | 4.5 |
| 1.4 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 52 | 35 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 34 | 76 |
| 13 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 7 | 24 |
| 31% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 38% |
- Charleston Battery has the fewest scored goals (3) away
- Charleston Battery have scored more than double the goals of North Carolina.
- Charleston Battery haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- North Carolina has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1)
- North Carolina has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0)
- North Carolina has the fewest matches over the total-line (1)
- North Carolina has the fewest points (3) at home
- North Carolina has the fewest scored goals (1) at home
- North Carolina has the fewest scored goals (4)
- North Carolina has the fewest scored goals in the first half (1)
- North Carolina has the fewest scored goals in the second half (3)
- North Carolina have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- North Carolina 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 | Birmingham Legion | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 17 |
| 2 | Charlotte Independence | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 9 |
| 3 | North Carolina | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -1 | 7 |
| 4 | Memphis 901 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -6 | 5 |