Real Monarchs vs Rio Grande Valley preview

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Thu 28.October
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: Zions Bank Stadium (5000 seats)

USL Championship: Tipsway are expecting an engaging and crucial battle involving Real Monarchs and Rio Grande Valley at Zions Bank Stadium. Both are in need of a good run!

Insights:
  • Real Monarchs have the fewest scored goals (26) in USL Championship
  • Rio Grande Valley have the most dropped points from leading position (20) in USL Championship

Rio Grande Valley could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a USL Championship game only four sleeps ago.

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Real Monarchs form and stats

Real Monarchs have collected 17 points from their USL Championship home games so far after 4-5-6.

The home supporters saw a 1-1 draw versus Colorado Springs in the USL Championship last time out and are looking for a win here.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Austin Bold in a game that was won 4-3.

There will be little rest for Real Monarchs after this match as they are travelling to New Mexico United for a USL Championship game in only three days.

The Real Monarchs fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 17 in 15 matches. Monarchs's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 22 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Rio Grande Valley form and stats

There's been little loot from Rio Grande Valley's travels as they have only collected 15 points from 15 away games in the USL Championship. Rio Grande Valley only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 6 draws.

Impressive finishing from R. López and K. Edwards secured the home win 2-0 against New Mexico United in their previous game.

A 0-1 defeat away at Colorado Springs before that.

After this away game Grande return home for a USL Championship game against El Paso Locomotive. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The visiting Grande have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 18 goals from 15 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Grande have conceded 20 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Rio Grande Valley - Real Monarchs 3-0 was the story when this pair of sides previously did battle, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - one - five (Monarchs wins - draws - Rio Grande Valley wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Rio Grande ValleyE. Amo Takyi
E. Amo Takyi
11 goals
Rio Grande ValleyJ. Azócar Segura
J. Azócar Segura
6 goals
MonarchsM. Iloski
M. Iloski
5 goals

Real Monarchs missing players

Rio Grande Valley missing players

Real Monarchs Rio Grande Valley
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 2 Played P 2 15 30
5 4 1 Won W 0 3 11
7 5 1 Drew D 2 6 8
18 6 0 Lost L 0 6 11
26 17 5 Scored S 2 18 42
50 22 4 Conceded C 2 20 40
93% 87% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
73% 73% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 87% 83%
40% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 47%
27% 27% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 20%
13% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 13%
47% 53% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 67%
13% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 13% 23%
47% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 10%
 
4.3 6 10 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2.8 5.4
6.2 4.4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 10 6.7 4.5
2.8 2.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.6 2.6
5 3 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.6 7.2 8 Shots (avg) S ( 4 7 10.7
3 3.5 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0.5 2.6 3.7
29% 33% 56% Goal Efficiency G E 200% 46% 38%
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Real Monarchs have the fewest clean sheets (4) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the fewest matches over the total-line (7) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the fewest points (17) at home in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the fewest points from losing position (4) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the fewest scored goals (26) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the fewest scored goals in the first half (12) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the fewest scored goals in the second half (11) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the most conceded goals (22) at home in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the most conceded goals (50) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the most conceded goals in the second half (28) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the the worst goal difference (-24) in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have the the worst goal difference (-5) at home in USL Championship
  • Real Monarchs have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Rio Grande Valley have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Rio Grande Valley have the most dropped points from leading position (20) in USL Championship
  • Rio Grande Valley have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Rio Grande Valley 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 El Paso Locomotive 30 17 10 3 51 30 15 12 3 0 32 10 15 5 7 3 19 20 21 61
2 Colorado Springs 31 13 10 8 60 47 16 8 5 3 31 20 15 5 5 5 29 27 13 49
3 San Antonio 31 13 10 8 47 38 15 6 6 3 24 16 16 7 4 5 23 22 9 49
4 New Mexico United 31 11 10 10 41 39 15 8 6 1 26 14 16 3 4 9 15 25 2 43
5 Rio Grande Valley 30 11 8 11 42 40 15 8 2 5 24 20 15 3 6 6 18 20 2 41
6 Austin Bold 31 10 11 10 31 41 15 6 6 3 17 15 16 4 5 7 14 26 -10 41
7 Real Monarchs 30 5 7 18 26 50 15 4 5 6 17 22 15 1 2 12 9 28 -24 22

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.