USL Championship fixture tips and game guide for the Orange County vs Monterey Bay duel

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sun 02.Jul
Match begins: 02:00 (UTC)
Venue: Championship Soccer Stadium at OC Great Park (2500 seats)

The visiting Monterey Bay team are thought to be odds-on at Orange County, as the visitors have a 7 point edge from their 15 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Orange County have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Monterey Bay have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Orange County form and stats

3-2-4 (win-draw-lost) are the USL Championship numbers at home for Orange County so far this season.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper null null not having conceded a league goal in 197 minutes.

Orange are returning here after visiting Detroit City and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Iloski scored the goal(s).

In the preceding match a 3-0 victory visiting Tulsa Roughnecks.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Orange County have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 11 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 4 and lost 5.

It should be taken into account that a peek at the 10 most recent league games shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

Orange County are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 9 games. On the other hand, Orange have conceded 11 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Monterey Bay form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their USL Championship travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Monterey Bay hope to make it five in this match.

The Monterey Bay goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 212 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Impressive finishing from Volesky secured the home win 1-0 against Miami FC II in their previous game.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Sacramento Republic at their stadium, the result 1-0.

Monterey have another fixture that requires travelling in just three days, a USL Championship match versus Colorado Springs. A difficult programme for the visitors!

Monterey Bay have scored 9 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. 8 goals have been conceded by Monterey Bay in these games.

Head 2 Head

Orange-Monterey Bay H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Orange County zero wins, Monterey Bay two wins, zero draws. zero of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Monterey BayH. Dixon
H. Dixon
8 goals
Orange CountyM. Iloski
M. Iloski
7 goals
Monterey BayC. Volesky
C. Volesky
7 goals

Orange County missing players

Monterey Bay missing players

Orange County Monterey Bay
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 9 1 Played P 3 7 16
5 3 1 Won W 1 3 7
4 2 0 Drew D 1 2 5
8 4 0 Lost L 1 2 4
16 10 1 Scored S 4 9 26
23 11 0 Conceded C 4 8 19
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 88%
65% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 71% 62%
47% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 43% 50%
24% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 31%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 25%
41% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 71% 62%
35% 33% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 25%
29% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 25%
 
4.2 5.1 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.7 2.7 3.4
4.6 4.8 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.3 6 4.5
2.8 3.1 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.3 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
11.4 13 15 Shots (avg) S ( 9.3 8.4 9.1
3.6 3.8 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3 3.4
26% 29% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 43% 48%
 
10.8 8.8 14 Shots against (avg) S A 12.3 12.9 10.7
3.4 2.9 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.7 4.1 3.6
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Monterey Bay have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Monterey Bay have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Monterey Bay haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Orange County have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Orange County haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 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

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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.