Birmingham Legion cannot expect any favours from hosts Pittsburgh Riverhounds in this USL Championship fixture. Here's your complete match guide!
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in USL Championship
- Birmingham Legion have the most scored goals (16) in USL Championship
Pittsburgh Riverhounds's stadium, Highmark Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Birmingham Legion have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Birmingham Legion when playing on artifical turf; 3 wins, 0 draws and 5 losses from eight matches. They have scored {9 goals} in these games and conceded 14.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Birmingham Legion, who are travelling more than 1200 kilometers to play this game.
It's no vacation for neither Pittsburgh Riverhounds nor Birmingham Legion as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Pittsburgh Riverhounds form and stats
Pittsburgh Riverhounds have collected seven points from their first three USL Championship games here at Highmark Stadium, a promising start. Two home wins in a row for Riverhounds bring valid hopes of a third.
Pittsburgh Riverhounds's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Birmingham Legion (placed 3rd). The home side are looking to build on that result. At last, a league win after three matches without one.
In the game before, a nice away victory at New England. A US Open Cup game. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Pittsburgh Riverhounds handle that role? We have found 10 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.
A decent goal production from Riverhounds in their home games so far, with 5 goals from 3 league matches. Pittsburgh Riverhounds are not conceding a lot of goals here at Highmark Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.
Birmingham Legion form and stats
Playing away, Birmingham Legion have won 3 games, drawn 0 and suffered 3 defeats in the USL Championship this season. It's a growing despair in Birmingham Legion as they have recorded three consecutive losses.
Two away games in a row for Birmingham, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Pittsburgh Riverhounds.
Before that, the victory at home against Memphis 901 in the US Open Cup (3-0). We have checked recent matches where Birmingham Legion have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 11 games were 5 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
Goal-happy betting people should observe that 8 of this side's 10 latest league fixtures have ended with at least three goals.
Birmingham Legion find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. As for defending, Birmingham rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 9 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This duo played each other previously this match year: Pittsburgh Riverhounds - Birmingham Legion 2-1. Head to head data (for the prior eight meetings): Riverhounds won five games, two matches ended with a draw and Birmingham Legion got one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / three.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Dikwa Lega 9 goals |   E. Martínez 3 goals | N. Brett 3 goals |
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 16 |
| 10 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 6 | 9 | 20 |
| 90% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 91% |
| 30% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 73% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 17% | 36% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 60% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 73% |
| 20% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 18% |
| 30% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 17% | 9% |
| 4.8 | 7.7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.8 | 4.8 |
| 3.4 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 7 | 5.5 |
| 2.4 | 2.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10.1 | 10.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 10.5 | 10.4 |
| 4 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
| 30% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 30% | 41% |
| 6.4 | 4.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 13.5 | 11.2 |
| 2.1 | 1.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 5.3 | 4.8 |
- All of Pittsburgh Riverhounds's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Birmingham Legion have the most conceded goals (20) in USL Championship
- Birmingham Legion have the most conceded goals in the second half (11) in USL Championship
- Birmingham Legion have the most matches over the total-line (7) in USL Championship
- Birmingham Legion have the most scored goals (16) in USL Championship
- Birmingham Legion haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have not yet lost a game at home.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Charleston Battery | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | -1 | 18 |
| 2 | Louisville City | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 17 |
| 3 | Birmingham Legion | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 16 |
| 4 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 5 | Pittsburgh Riverhounds | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Memphis 901 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | Miami FC II | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | Loudoun United | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 9 | Indy Eleven | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -3 | 9 |
| 10 | Tulsa Roughnecks | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 8 |
| 11 | Hartford Athletic | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -6 | 5 |
| 12 | Detroit City | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -8 | 5 |
