Rio Grande Valley will hope to employ their home advantage to help shorten the gap to today’s opponents. The host team are currently 20 points behind El Paso Locomotive.
- Rio Grande Valley have the most dropped points from leading position (20) in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have the fewest conceded goals (30) in USL Championship
There haven't been much to rest for the home team, as they played a USL Championship game only three days earlier. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Real Monarchs.
Rio Grande Valley form and stats
When playing at home in the USL Championship, Rio Grande Valley have managed 8 wins, 2 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 15 games. There’s a good atmosphere here at H-E-B Park after three straight home wins.
A good away victory last time out for Grande, who won 3-1 against Real Monarchs (placed 7th).
Previous to that game, a home match hosting New Mexico United in a game that was won 2-0.Rio Grande Valley have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at H-E-B Park with 24 goals in 15 league matches. 20 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
El Paso Locomotive form and stats
5-7-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for El Paso Locomotive, who have the fewest conceded goals (30) in USL Championship, in their USL Championship matches away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Locomotive goalkeeper Logan Ketterer is eager to challenge this, with his 180 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
The supporters enjoyed Locomotive's previous game versus OKC Energy, a USL Championship 4-0 win played at home. As you can tell from the results above, Locomotive was very dominant against OKC Energy, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with J. Gómez (2) and M. King (2) providing the goals. Locomotive delivered their win in the match against OKC Energy already in the first half, and could slow the play down in the final 45 minutes to ensure the glorious victory. A solid performance!
A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Austin Bold.Locomotive are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 19 away goals from 15 games (in the league). As opposed to that, El Paso Locomotive have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
El Paso Locomotive - Rio Grande Valley 3-1 was the outcome when this pair of sides last played each other, earlier this season. Last three meetings featuring these teams: Grande won one, El Paso Locomotive triumphed in two and we saw zero draws. two games with more than 2,5 goals, one match with under 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  E. Amo Takyi 11 goals | L. Solignac 10 goals | J. Gómez Gómez 10 goals |
Rio Grande Valley missing players
El Paso Locomotive missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 15 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 15 | 31 |
| 12 | 8 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 18 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 45 | 24 | 3 | Scored | S | 3 | 19 | 55 |
| 41 | 20 | 7 | Conceded | C | 3 | 20 | 30 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 90% |
| 84% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 73% | 77% |
| 48% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 55% |
| 23% | 20% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 32% |
| 13% | 20% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 13% | 13% |
| 68% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 55% |
| 23% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 27% | 42% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 27% | 13% |
| 5.5 | 7.9 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.7 | 5.2 |
| 4.4 | 2.3 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10 | 7.3 | 4.5 |
| 2.6 | 2.6 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.9 | 14.3 | 6.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 8 | 11.9 |
| 3.8 | 4.9 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.6 | 4 |
| 38% | 33% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 35% | 44% |
- El Paso Locomotive have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- El Paso Locomotive have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- El Paso Locomotive have the fewest conceded goals (20) away in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have the fewest conceded goals (30) in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (14) in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have the fewest dropped points from leading position (10) in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have the most clean sheets (13) in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have the most scored goals in the second half (35) in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have the the best goal difference (+25) in USL Championship
- El Paso Locomotive have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- El Paso Locomotive is in the best form (4-1-1)
- Rio Grande Valley have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Rio Grande Valley have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Rio Grande Valley have the most dropped points from leading position (20) in USL Championship
- Rio Grande Valley have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Rio Grande Valley have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- 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 | 31 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 55 | 30 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 20 | 25 | 64 |
| 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 | Rio Grande Valley | 31 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 45 | 41 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 21 | 4 | 44 |
| 5 | New Mexico United | 31 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 41 | 39 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 26 | 14 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 25 | 2 | 43 |
| 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 | 31 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 27 | 53 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 28 | -26 | 22 |