The lights are on for USL Championship and Tacoma Defiance - Sacramento Republic. In this preview and news article you'll find statistics, scores, analysis, trends and news!
- Tacoma Defiance have the fewest points from losing position (6) in USL Championship
It's no vacation for neither Defiance nor Sacramento Republic as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Tacoma Defiance form and stats
Tacoma Defiance are steadily winning USL Championship games and points here at Cheney Stadium. 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 10 games. Tacoma Defiance has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager W. Webber and the players.
In their previous game, the manager W. Webber led his Defiance to a defeat in the USL Championship match away at San Diego Loyal. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Cheney Stadium.
Heartbreak before that as Defiance lost 1-3 at Oakland Roots's place.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Tacoma Defiance, as the USL Championship home game vs Phoenix Rising is only three days away.
Defiance have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Cheney Stadium with 16 goals in 10 league matches. Defiance are not conceding a lot of goals here at Cheney Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 10 matches. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Sacramento Republic form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their USL Championship travels is 3 wins, 6 draws and 3 defeats.
Sacramento aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 182 league minutes without a goal. J. Chavez was the last player to find the net.
The manager M. Briggs was unhappy after their last game, a USL Championship match played at their home ground Papa Murphy’s Park. Sacramento suffered a 0-1 loss to San Antonio.
Prior to that match, the Sacramento Republic manager M. Briggs faced defeat when travelling to El Paso Locomotive and losing 0-2.A quick return to home after this game, as Sacramento are hosting LA Galaxy II in the USL Championship only four days away.
Sacramento have scored 13 goals on their travels this season, from 12 away games in the league. 14 goals have been conceded by Sacramento in these games.
Head 2 Head
Defiance - Sacramento Republic 1-1 was the story when these squads previously did battle, also in this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Tacoma Defiance two wins, three draws and Sacramento Republic five victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Adeniran 6 goals |  C. Iwasa 6 goals | T. Bone 5 goals |
Tacoma Defiance missing players
Sacramento Republic missing players
| Tacoma Defiance | Sacramento Republic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 23 |
| 8 | 6 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 27 | 16 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 13 | 27 |
| 29 | 9 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 14 | 32 |
| 91% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 83% | 87% |
| 77% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 67% | 70% |
| 50% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 33% | 48% |
| 27% | 30% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 35% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 9% |
| 59% | 70% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 57% |
| 23% | 30% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 25% | 17% |
| 27% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 42% | 39% |
| 5.3 | 6.9 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.7 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
| 4.3 | 2.1 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 4.3 | 3.6 |
| 2.4 | 2.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 8.2 | 9.5 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 7.6 | 8.1 |
| 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.1 |
| 36% | 38% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 38% | 38% |
- Tacoma Defiance have the fewest conceded goals (9) at home in USL Championship
- Tacoma Defiance have the fewest points from losing position (6) in USL Championship
- Tacoma Defiance have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Tacoma Defiance have won significantly more corners at home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Phoenix Rising | 24 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 56 | 25 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 31 | 53 |
| 2 | San Diego Loyal | 24 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 31 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 37 |
| 3 | Orange County | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 35 | 30 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 5 | 34 |
| 4 | Tacoma Defiance | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 29 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 20 | -2 | 30 |
| 5 | Oakland Roots | 23 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 24 | 32 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -8 | 27 |
| 6 | Sacramento Republic | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 27 | 32 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 14 | -5 | 26 |
| 7 | LA Galaxy II | 23 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 40 | 46 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 25 | -6 | 26 |
| 8 | Las Vegas Lights | 25 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 31 | 60 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 39 | -29 | 17 |