USL Championship: Pittsburgh Riverhounds predicted to win home fixture vs San Diego Loyal

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sat 24.June
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Highmark Stadium (3500 seats)

USL Championship: Pittsburgh Riverhounds are ready for the visit of San Diego Loyal in what should be an action-packed football game. Here's all the pre-match info you need!

Insights:
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals (11) in USL Championship
  • San Diego Loyal have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Pittsburgh Riverhounds form and stats

Pittsburgh Riverhounds have been outstanding at home so far in the USL Championship with 5 wins, 1 draw and only 0 losses. After failing to beat Miami FC II here at Highmark Stadium, Pittsburgh Riverhounds has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with five wins in a row.

Riverhounds are confident in defense, having played 364 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Pittsburgh Riverhounds travelled for their previous game, a trip to Oakland Roots that ended 0-0.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Charleston Battery in a game that was won 2-0.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Pittsburgh Riverhounds matches with similar probabilities have ended with 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat (from 4 games).

Trouble hitting the net? Looking at this club's last 13 league games, 10 have had zero, one or two goals.

Riverhounds are not conceding a lot of goals here at Highmark Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 6 matches.

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San Diego Loyal form and stats

2 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of San Diego Loyal playing as the away team in the USL Championship this season. The last three matches for San Diego Loyal have all ended in a draw.

San Diego Loyal's last game was the home draw against San Antonio (2-2). As mentioned above, Diego drew the match against San Antonio. Manager Miller brought on Perez to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked.

A draw for San Diego Loyal before that, at their own venue hosting Sacramento Republic (1-1).

Observe! Both sides have scored at least once in 10 of this club's last 12 league fixtures.

The travelling fans enjoy Diego's attacking play in away games, having scored 11 goals in 7 league matches away. San Diego Loyal struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 12 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Pittsburgh RiverhoundsA. Dikwa Lega
A. Dikwa Lega
9 goals
San Diego LoyalE. Conway
E. Conway
5 goals
San Diego LoyalR. Damus
R. Damus
5 goals

Pittsburgh Riverhounds missing players

San Diego Loyal missing players

Pittsburgh Riverhounds San Diego Loyal
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
15 6 1 Played P 0 7 15
7 5 1 Won W 0 2 6
6 1 0 Drew D 0 3 5
2 0 0 Lost L 0 2 4
20 12 2 Scored S 0 11 24
11 3 1 Conceded C 0 12 21
87% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 86% 80%
27% 33% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 57% 60%
20% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 33%
7% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 20%
47% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 71% 67%
40% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 20%
27% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 13%
 
3.5 3.3 3 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5.6 5.3
4.2 5.2 5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.3 3.8
2.3 1.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.1 1.9
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9.5 9.3 12 Shots (avg) S ( 0 11 11.7
3.7 4.3 9 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.3 4.5
36% 46% 22% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 37% 35%
 
8.1 9.2 4 Shots against (avg) S A 0 12.6 12.5
2.3 2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 3.3
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds have not yet lost a game at home.
  • 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 at home.
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals (11) in USL Championship
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in USL Championship
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6) in USL Championship
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds have the the best goal difference (+9) at home in USL Championship
  • Pittsburgh Riverhounds haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • San Diego Loyal have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • San Diego Loyal haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 16 8 4 4 21 24 9 3 3 3 9 16 7 5 1 1 12 8 -3 28
2 Pittsburgh Riverhounds 15 7 6 2 20 11 6 5 1 0 12 3 9 2 5 2 8 8 9 27
3 Tampa Bay Rowdies 15 7 4 4 23 16 9 5 2 2 17 10 6 2 2 2 6 6 7 25
4 Memphis 901 12 6 4 2 23 14 7 2 3 2 12 11 5 4 1 0 11 3 9 22
5 Louisville City 14 6 4 4 15 18 6 3 0 3 7 9 8 3 4 1 8 9 -3 22
6 Birmingham Legion 14 6 1 7 19 24 7 3 1 3 12 14 7 3 0 4 7 10 -5 19
7 Indy Eleven 14 4 4 6 15 17 7 1 3 3 5 9 7 3 1 3 10 8 -2 16
8 Detroit City 15 4 4 7 10 14 6 2 1 3 3 4 9 2 3 4 7 10 -4 16
9 Loudoun United 15 5 1 9 18 24 8 3 1 4 11 9 7 2 0 5 7 15 -6 16
10 Tulsa Roughnecks 15 2 7 6 17 22 7 1 3 3 8 10 8 1 4 3 9 12 -5 13
11 Miami FC II 15 2 7 6 18 24 9 2 4 3 12 10 6 0 3 3 6 14 -6 13
12 Hartford Athletic 15 2 4 9 20 32 8 1 2 5 8 15 7 1 2 4 12 17 -12 10

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.