Struggling Saint Louis FC will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Louisville City in the upcoming league round. It’s 3rd vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Louis have less rest than Louisville City in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a USL Championship game only three days ago. That game was an away game at Indy Eleven, so at least Louis are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Saint Louis FC form and stats
Saint Louis FC have performed here at World Wide Technology Soccer Park this season with 5 wins from 8 USL Championship matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 2 games and lost 1. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at World Wide Technology Soccer Park.
Louis travelled for their previous game, a trip to Indy Eleven that ended 1-1. Ahead of that match, Louis won a home game hosting Swope Park Rangers (3-2).
Goals decide football matches and Louis are scoring many of them at home; 16 on target from 8 league matches. Louis's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Louisville City form and stats
As the visiting team in USL Championship matches, Louisville City, who have the most scored goals (25) in USL Championship, have produced an overall stat of 3-1-0 so far. The fact that Louisville have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting. Louisville City has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.
Louisville are travelling after their nice 4-1 home win in the USL Championship against Memphis 901. Preceding that game was the away victory against Indy Eleven with the score of 2-0.
Louisville City has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 7 goals from 4 games. Louisville are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 2 goals away.
Head 2 Head
Louis and Louisville City have met before this season: Louisville City - Saint Louis FC 3-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Saint Louis FC won two games, four matches ended with a draw and Louisville City has four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / sevenTop Goalscorers
  C. Lancaster 9 goals |  R. Cicerone 5 goals | T. Blackwood 5 goals |
Saint Louis FC missing players
Louisville City missing players
| Saint Louis FC | Louisville City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 8 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 20 | 16 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 25 |
| 19 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 88% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 71% |
| 43% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 43% |
| 36% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 21% | 38% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 57% | 75% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 14% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 29% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 1.4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1.4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 98 | 66 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 37 | 164 |
| 37 | 24 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 17 | 60 |
| 43% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 41% | 42% |
- Louisville City has the fewest conceded goals (11) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the fewest conceded goals (2) away in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the fewest scored goals in the second half (9) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most clean sheets (2) away in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most clean sheets (6) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most scored goals (25) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the most scored goals in the first half (16) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the the best goal difference (+14) in USL Championship
- Louisville City has the the best goal difference (+5) away in USL Championship
- Louisville City have not yet lost a game away.
- Louisville City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Louisville City have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Louisville City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Louisville City is in the best form (5-1-0)
- Saint Louis FC has the most points from losing position (6) in USL Championship
- Saint Louis FC have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Saint Louis FC have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Louisville City have scored away.
- Saint Louis FC 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 | Louisville City | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 29 |
| 2 | Indy Eleven | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 |
| 3 | Saint Louis FC | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 22 |
| 4 | Swope Park Rangers | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 25 | -9 | 13 |