Portland Timbers II are welcoming Tacoma Defiance for another important game after their 2-5 result against 1st-placed Reno 1868.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Portland's stadium, Providence Park, has a artifical turf surface. Tacoma Defiance 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 Tacoma Defiance when playing on artifical turf; 2 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses from four matches. They have scored 7 goals in these games and conceded 8.
Portland Timbers II form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the USL Championship this season. Portland Timbers II, who have the fewest scored goals (16) in USL Championship, have only managed 1 win, 0 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Providence Park.
The Portland fans got no joy from their last match, a USL Championship game also here at Providence Park: A 2-5 defeat against Reno 1868 (placed 1st). In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Real Monarchs.
A goal frenzy last time out for Portland, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Reno 1868. Fun stuff to watch!
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Portland Timbers II have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found one game) they have won zero times, drawn zero and lost one.
The manager C. Knowles will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Tacoma Defiance in only three days.
The Portland fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 9 in 7 matches. Neutralizing the opposition is a challenge, Portland having conceded 19 goals here at Providence Park so far.
Tacoma Defiance form and stats
Tacoma Defiance have only collected 5 points from their away games in the USL Championship, after 1-2-6 (9 played).
Defiance are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 3-3 draw at Sacramento Republic (placed 2nd). Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting Reno 1868's place.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Sacramento Republic was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
Tacoma Defiance are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, zero draws and two defeats. From a total of two matches.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Portland Timbers II in just three days.
Tacoma Defiance has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 15 goals from 9 games. For Tacoma Defiance, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Portland - Tacoma Defiance 3-0 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Portland Timbers II five wins, zero draws and Tacoma Defiance five victories. As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  Jorge Gonzalez 6 goals |   A. Diaz 4 goals | M. Epps 3 goals |
Portland Timbers II missing players
Tacoma Defiance missing players
| Portland Timbers II | Tacoma Defiance | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 7 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 9 | 12 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 16 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 15 | 20 |
| 43 | 19 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 21 | 26 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 92% | 86% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 89% | 92% |
| 92% | 86% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 89% | 92% |
| 54% | 57% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 67% | 58% |
| 46% | 43% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 69% | 57% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 8% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 17% |
| 23% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 17% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 1.9 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 102 | 64 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 78 | 83 |
| 44 | 29 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 41 | 44 |
| 34% | 31% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 34% | 39% |
- Portland Timbers II has the fewest scored goals (16) in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II has the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II has the most conceded goals (19) at home in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II has the most conceded goals (43) in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II has the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II has the most conceded goals in the second half (22) in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II has the most matches over the total-line (10) in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II has the the worst goal difference (-10) at home in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II has the the worst goal difference (-27) in USL Championship
- Portland Timbers II have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Portland Timbers II haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Tacoma Defiance has the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in USL Championship
- Tacoma Defiance has the fewest points from losing position (2) in USL Championship
- Tacoma Defiance haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Tacoma Defiance is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| 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 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 38 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 21 | 31 |
| 2 | Sacramento Republic | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 26 |
| 3 | Tacoma Defiance | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 21 | -6 | 8 |
| 4 | Portland Timbers II | 13 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 16 | 43 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 24 | -27 | 6 |