Delightful dogfight as daring Orange County duel with determined Oakland Roots

Orange County and Oakland Roots should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

Orange County form and stats

When playing at home in the USL Championship, Orange County, who have the most clean sheets (13) in USL Championship, have managed 7 wins, 4 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 16 games. Orange County has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Championship Soccer Stadium at OC Great Park. We remember; it was Phoenix Rising.

The Orange County goalkeeper Patrick Rakovsky is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the USL Championship.

Orange's last game was hosting Colorado Springs and winning 1-0. Orange made it very difficult for themselves, when R. Kiernan got a red card in the 31st minute. The match was still a draw at this point. But even with this card, Orange County won the match 1-0!

Before that match, a win away at LA Galaxy II.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Orange handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, two draws and three defeats.

Orange are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 21 goals in 16 games. Orange have conceded 20 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

Oakland Roots form and stats

There's been little loot from Oakland Roots's travels as they have only collected 16 points from 16 away games in the USL Championship. Oakland Roots only have 4 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 4 draws. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Oakland are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Oakland goalkeeper Paul Blanchette is eager to challenge this, with his 184 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Oakland play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting El Paso Locomotive. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager J. Ferrell when J. Bokila scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 74th minute.

A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Swope Park Rangers.

Oakland are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, two draws and two defeats. From a total of six matches.

The visiting Oakland have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 17 goals from 16 games. As for defending, Oakland rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 27 goals from these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The participants have faced each other before in this season, with the final score Oakland Roots - Orange 0-1 written in the official records. Last four meetings involving these participants: Orange County won four, Oakland Roots were winners in zero and we saw zero draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

R. Damus 15 goals

J. Bokila 6 goals

E. Markkanen 4 goals

Orange County missing players

Oakland Roots missing players