USL Championship forecast and guide: San Diego Loyal moderate front runner to outplay Colorado Springs

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sun 30.Jul
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Torero Stadium (6100 seats)

USL Championship: The middle-of-the-table positions illustrates the road San Diego Loyal and Colorado Springs have been on uptil now. Both sides are eager to play; bring it!

Insights:
  • San Diego Loyal have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Colorado Springs have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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San Diego Loyal form and stats

San Diego Loyal have collected 14 points from their USL Championship home games so far after 4-2-2. San Diego Loyal have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

The San Diego Loyal goalkeeper Jorge Ruiz Ojeda is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 188 minutes without conceding a goal in the USL Championship.

San Diego Loyal enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Colorado Springs's place. The match ended 5-0 with Collier, Moshobane, Bodily (2) and Perez scoring. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Diego played a great game against Colorado Springs and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Hartford Athletic.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from San Diego Loyal's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 12 games, won 8 matches, drawn 0 and lost 4.

Sports gamblers, take note: A review of the 16 latest league matches reveals that 12 of them had goals from both sides.

A decent goal production from Diego in their home games so far, with 13 goals from 8 league matches. San Diego Loyal have conceded 9 in these home matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Colorado Springs form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Colorado Springs so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 3-0-6 (win-draw-lose).

Colorado are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Phoenix Rising (placed 8th).

A 0-5 loss hosting San Diego Loyal before that.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Colorado Springs when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 7 matches with the visitors losing 6 times, drawing 1 and winning 0 games.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 13 goals have been conceded by Colorado Springs in these games.

Head 2 Head

Colorado Springs - Diego 0-5 was the product when these teams last played each other, some time ago this season. Previous three meetings with these squads: San Diego Loyal won three, Colorado Springs were winners in zero and we saw zero draws. three games with over 2,5 goals, zero matches with two goals or less. The matches between these clubs have had a tendency to be a bit wild, having seen 4 sending-offs from the last three encounters. One of the stars has been Moshobane with 3 goals scored against Colorado Springs in these 3 meetings.

Top Goalscorers

San Diego LoyalE. Conway
E. Conway
8 goals
Colorado SpringsR. Williams
R. Williams
8 goals
San Diego LoyalA. Perez
A. Perez
5 goals

San Diego Loyal missing players

Colorado Springs missing players

San Diego Loyal Colorado Springs
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 8 1 Played P 1 11 21
8 4 1 Won W 0 3 9
6 2 0 Drew D 1 1 2
5 2 0 Lost L 0 7 10
34 13 3 Scored S 1 9 27
25 9 0 Conceded C 1 16 27
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
84% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 64% 71%
63% 62% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 55% 52%
37% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 9% 24%
21% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
63% 62% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 55% 43%
26% 38% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 9% 29%
11% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 36% 29%
 
4.9 5.1 2 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.8 5
3.6 3.4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 12 5.8 5.2
2.2 1.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3 2.6
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.9 12.4 10 Shots (avg) S ( 15 12.4 12.1
4.7 4.8 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.9 4.1
38% 34% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 21% 31%
 
11.9 12.5 16 Shots against (avg) S A 19 13.3 11.8
3.3 2.8 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 4.6 4.3
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Colorado Springs have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Colorado Springs haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • San Diego Loyal have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • San Diego Loyal 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 15 9 3 3 24 16 8 4 1 3 9 8 7 5 2 0 15 8 8 30
2 Sacramento Republic 15 8 5 2 26 9 8 6 1 1 18 4 7 2 4 1 8 5 17 29
3 San Antonio 15 6 7 2 27 16 8 3 5 0 13 9 7 3 2 2 14 7 11 25
4 Monterey Bay 15 6 5 4 25 19 8 3 3 2 16 11 7 3 2 2 9 8 6 23
5 San Diego Loyal 15 6 5 4 24 21 8 4 2 2 13 9 7 2 3 2 11 12 3 23
6 Oakland Roots 14 6 4 4 20 14 6 3 2 1 7 2 8 3 2 3 13 12 6 22
7 Colorado Springs 16 7 1 8 19 19 7 4 1 2 12 6 9 3 0 6 7 13 0 22
8 Phoenix Rising 15 5 6 4 21 20 7 2 4 1 13 10 8 3 2 3 8 10 1 21
9 Orange County 16 4 4 8 15 23 9 3 2 4 10 11 7 1 2 4 5 12 -8 16
10 Rio Grande Valley 15 3 7 5 15 24 9 1 5 3 9 16 6 2 2 2 6 8 -9 16
11 New Mexico United 14 4 3 7 21 24 6 2 2 2 9 9 8 2 1 5 12 15 -3 15
12 Las Vegas Lights 14 1 6 7 13 24 4 0 1 3 3 6 10 1 5 4 10 18 -11 9

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.