This match features two teams living in the basement of the USL Championship, Portland Timbers II holding 4th place and Tacoma Defiance lying 3rd. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the USL Championship. That game was an away game at Reno 1868, so at least Portland are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
This stadium uses artifical turf, unlike Tacoma Defiance's home stadium. The visitors last three games on artifical turf have ended in 2 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss.
Portland Timbers II form and stats
Portland Timbers II are yet to produce one single USL Championship point here at Providence Park, to the disappointment of their supporters. All 5 matches have been lost. All in all it has been a very rough period for Portland who hasn’t won a league-game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against Phoenix Rising, 185 days ago. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Providence Park, with the home team losing five in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Reno 1868 game.
Portland lost their last game at Reno 1868 (placed 1st) after a 1-7 scoreline. Preceding that match was the home game against Sacramento Republic that was lost 1-2.
Portland were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Portland as they have a new game in only three days, a USL Championship match thankfully also at home. Tacoma Defiance are visiting.
Portland aren't scoring a lot here at Providence Park in the league, with only 4 goals from 5 games. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Portland Timbers II have allowed the opposition to score 14 goals here at Providence Park.
Tacoma Defiance form and stats
There's been little loot from Tacoma Defiance's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 6 away games in the USL Championship. Tacoma Defiance only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 1 draw. A depressing four defeats in a row for Defiance in their away games. Unhappy days, as the last time they avoided a loss on the road was versus Portland Timbers II. It's looking increasingly bleak for Tacoma Defiance who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Portland Timbers II was the last time a defeat was avoided.
Defiance play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Real Monarchs. A 1-3 defeat away at Las Vegas Lights before that.
The schedule is very tough for Defiance now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A USL Championship game at Portland Timbers II is waiting in only three days.
The travelling fans enjoy Defiance's attacking play in away games, having scored 10 goals in 6 league matches away. For Defiance, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Portland - Tacoma Defiance 0-4 entered in the official records. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Portland victories, zero draws and six Tacoma Defiance wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Diaz 4 goals |   D. Clapier 2 goals | Jorge Gonzalez 2 goals |
Portland Timbers II missing players
Tacoma Defiance missing players
| Portland Timbers II | Tacoma Defiance | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 10 | 15 |
| 37 | 14 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 12 | 17 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 90% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 83% | 89% |
| 90% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 83% | 89% |
| 60% | 60% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 67% | 56% |
| 50% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 11% |
| 70% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 22% |
| 30% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 11% |
| 5.2 | 6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| 4.7 | 5.4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 8.6 | 8.3 |
| 2.1 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.2 | 1.7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 67 | 39 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 54 | 59 |
| 28 | 18 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 28 | 31 |
| 29% | 22% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 32% | 39% |
- Portland Timbers II has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Portland Timbers II has the fewest points (0) at home
- Portland Timbers II has the fewest points from losing position (0)
- Portland Timbers II has the fewest scored goals (4) at home
- Portland Timbers II has the fewest scored goals (9)
- Portland Timbers II has the fewest scored goals in the first half (2)
- Portland Timbers II has the most conceded goals (14) at home
- Portland Timbers II has the most conceded goals (37)
- Portland Timbers II has the most conceded goals in the first half (17)
- Portland Timbers II has the most conceded goals in the second half (20)
- Portland Timbers II has the most matches over the total-line (7)
- Portland Timbers II has the the worst goal difference (-10) at home
- Portland Timbers II has the the worst goal difference (-28)
- Portland Timbers II have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Portland Timbers II have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Portland Timbers II have lost all their matches so far.
- Portland Timbers II haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Portland Timbers II is in the worst form (0-0-6)
- Tacoma Defiance has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5)
- Tacoma Defiance has the fewest matches under the total-line (1)
- Tacoma Defiance has the most dropped points from leading position (5)
- Tacoma Defiance have scored at least twice as many goals away as Portland Timbers II have scored home.
- Tacoma Defiance 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 | Reno 1868 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 17 | 24 |
| 2 | Sacramento Republic | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 21 |
| 3 | Tacoma Defiance | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -2 | 7 |
| 4 | Portland Timbers II | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 23 | -28 | 0 |