It's advantage Pittsburgh Riverhounds so far with their 1st position in the USL Championship table, welcoming Hartford Athletic who are placed 2nd.
The visiting Hartford Athletic played their last game only three days ago, a USL Championship match.
This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Hartford Athletic's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Hartford Athletic have performed like this: Played one match resulting in 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat with the goal stats 0-5 (scored/conceded).
Pittsburgh Riverhounds form and stats
13 points is a decent return from 6 USL Championship games here at Highmark Stadium for Pittsburgh Riverhounds. The data says 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Riverhounds has won five games in a row. The Saint Louis FC match was the last time out without a victory. Two home wins in a row for Riverhounds bring valid hopes of a third.
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds goalkeeper Daniel Vitiello is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 483 minutes without conceding a goal in the USL Championship.
A good away victory last time out for Riverhounds, who won 1-0 against Loudoun United (placed 5th). Previous to that game, a home match hosting Hartford Athletic in a game that was won 5-0.
Goals are plentiful at Highmark Stadium in the league this season as Riverhounds has scored 18 goals here in 6 home games. From these home matches, Riverhounds have conceded only 4 goals.
Hartford Athletic form and stats
2 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Hartford Athletic playing as the away team in the USL Championship this season.
Hartford delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Bethlehem Steel (placed 4th) in their previous match; a USL Championship game. Preceding that game was the away victory against Bethlehem Steel with the score of 3-0.
Hartford has another fixture away, a USL Championship game, against Bethlehem Steel in just four days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
Hartford have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, from 4 away games in the league. The Hartford manager R. Jaïdi has some worries about the defense as 9 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Riverhounds - Hartford Athletic 5-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Riverhounds four wins, zero draws and Hartford Athletic zero victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  K. Mensah 6 goals |   H. Dixon 6 goals | R. James 5 goals |
Pittsburgh Riverhounds missing players
Hartford Athletic missing players
| Pittsburgh Riverhounds | Hartford Athletic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 37 | 18 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 25 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 9 | 22 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 92% |
| 71% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 85% |
| 43% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 54% |
| 21% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 31% |
| 29% | 33% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 69% |
| 57% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 15% |
| 14% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 15% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.6 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 106 | 51 | 10 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 17 | 126 |
| 61 | 33 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 9 | 62 |
| 61% | 55% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 56% | 40% |
- Hartford Athletic has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in USL Championship
- Hartford Athletic has the most points from losing position (7) in USL Championship
- Hartford Athletic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the fewest conceded goals (8) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the most clean sheets (3) at home in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the most clean sheets (8) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the most matches over the total-line (10) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the most scored goals (37) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the most scored goals in the first half (20) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the most scored goals in the second half (17) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the the best goal difference (+14) at home in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds has the the best goal difference (+29) in USL Championship
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Hartford Athletic have scored away.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Pittsburgh Riverhounds is in the best form (5-1-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Pittsburgh Riverhounds | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 4 | 29 | 31 |
| 2 | Hartford Athletic | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 26 |
| 3 | New York RB II | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 25 | 28 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 20 | -3 | 12 |
| 4 | Bethlehem Steel | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 35 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 17 | -22 | 9 |
| 5 | Loudoun United | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 21 | -18 | 6 |