Soccer match preview: Home supporters have high hopes when Oakland Roots greet Las Vegas Lights

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Thu 27.Jul
Match begins: 02:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ningineer Stadium (20919 seats)

Oakland Roots have harvested 11 of their 22 in total here in their home stadium. What will happen versus Las Vegas Lights?

Insights:
  • Oakland Roots have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest scored goals (13) 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.

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Oakland Roots form and stats

3 victories, 2 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Oakland Roots have to build on here at Ningineer Stadium in the USL Championship.

A good away victory last time out for Oakland Roots, who won 3-1 against El Paso Locomotive (placed 1st).

In the game before, an away victory match versus Monterey Bay with a 3-1 scoreline.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Oakland Roots as they have a new game in only three days, a USL Championship match thankfully also at home. Detroit City are visiting.

Oakland Roots are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 6 games. Defensively Oakland have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 6 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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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 1-5-4 (win-draw-lose). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Las Vegas Lights's last three away games as they have all been lost.

The manager Macip was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Cashman Field (Las Vegas, Nevada). Las Vegas Lights suffered a 0-2 loss to Hartford Athletic.

Preceding that match was the 3-3 draw at home vs Birmingham Legion.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Lights when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 12 matches with the visitors losing 7 times, drawing 2 and winning 3 games.

A quick return to home after this game, as Las Vegas Lights are hosting Sacramento Republic in the USL Championship only three days away.

Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Las Vegas Lights have conceded 18 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

As for the last six games between these two teams, there's two Oakland Roots victories, two draws and two Las Vegas Lights wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

OaklandJ. Rodriguez
J. Rodriguez
8 goals
Oakland RootsD. Formella
D. Formella
6 goals
Oakland RootsL. Mfeka
L. Mfeka
4 goals

Oakland Roots missing players

Las Vegas Lights missing players

Oakland Roots Las Vegas Lights
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 9 3 Played P 2 11 19
8 3 2 Won W 1 1 1
6 4 0 Drew D 0 5 8
6 2 1 Lost L 1 5 10
28 9 4 Scored S 1 10 19
23 6 2 Conceded C 2 19 34
90% 78% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 95%
80% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 73% 79%
50% 22% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 45% 53%
30% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 36% 32%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 18% 16%
50% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 64% 68%
35% 56% 67% Clean Sheets C S 50% 18% 11%
25% 33% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 27% 26%
 
4.8 4.9 6.7 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 4.7 5.9
4.2 3.1 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5.5 4.6
2.5 1.7 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.8 2.5
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.3 11.2 9.7 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 12.1 14.6
4.6 3.4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 3.7 4.7
30% 29% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 9% 24% 21%
 
11.3 10.2 10.7 Shots against (avg) S A 12.5 13 11.8
4.7 4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 4.4 4.3
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest scored goals (13) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals (18) away in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the most conceded goals in the first half (19) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the the worst goal difference (-11) in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have the the worst goal difference (-8) away in USL Championship
  • Las Vegas Lights have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Las Vegas Lights is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Oakland Roots have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home 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 El Paso Locomotive 15 9 3 3 24 16 8 4 1 3 9 8 7 5 2 0 15 8 8 30
2 Sacramento Republic 15 8 5 2 26 9 8 6 1 1 18 4 7 2 4 1 8 5 17 29
3 San Antonio 15 6 7 2 27 16 8 3 5 0 13 9 7 3 2 2 14 7 11 25
4 Monterey Bay 15 6 5 4 25 19 8 3 3 2 16 11 7 3 2 2 9 8 6 23
5 San Diego Loyal 15 6 5 4 24 21 8 4 2 2 13 9 7 2 3 2 11 12 3 23
6 Oakland Roots 14 6 4 4 20 14 6 3 2 1 7 2 8 3 2 3 13 12 6 22
7 Colorado Springs 16 7 1 8 19 19 7 4 1 2 12 6 9 3 0 6 7 13 0 22
8 Phoenix Rising 15 5 6 4 21 20 7 2 4 1 13 10 8 3 2 3 8 10 1 21
9 Orange County 16 4 4 8 15 23 9 3 2 4 10 11 7 1 2 4 5 12 -8 16
10 Rio Grande Valley 15 3 7 5 15 24 9 1 5 3 9 16 6 2 2 2 6 8 -9 16
11 New Mexico United 14 4 3 7 21 24 6 2 2 2 9 9 8 2 1 5 12 15 -3 15
12 Las Vegas Lights 14 1 6 7 13 24 4 0 1 3 3 6 10 1 5 4 10 18 -11 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.