Excitement is likely at Al Lang Stadium when Tampa Bay Rowdies face Birmingham Legion in what should be a superb game. Here's the preview!
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the fewest conceded goals (23) in USL Championship
- Birmingham Legion have the the best goal difference (+5) away in USL Championship
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
It's quite the trip for Birmingham Legion when visiting Rowdies as the cities are 1000 kilometers apart.
Tampa Bay Rowdies form and stats
Home games in the USL Championship have been a walk in the park for Tampa Bay Rowdies so far, with 40 points won from 16 matches; 13 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. The happy trend is alive also outside their own arena as Rowdies has won their last four matches.
The Tampa Bay Rowdies supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Tulsa Roughnecks in USL Championship and win 6-2. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Rowdies played a great game against Tulsa Roughnecks and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Las Vegas Lights.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 Rowdies's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played four games, won three matches, drawn zero and lost one.
Goals decide football matches and Rowdies are scoring many of them at home; 37 on target from 16 league matches. From these home matches, Tampa Bay Rowdies have conceded only 10 goals.
Birmingham Legion form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the the best goal difference (+5) away in USL Championship, on their USL Championship travels is 8 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats.
The manager T. Soehn was unhappy after their last game, a USL Championship match played at their home ground BBVA Compass Field. Birmingham Legion suffered a 0-1 loss to Louisville City.
A home win before that, celebrating 6-0 vs Swope Park Rangers.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Birmingham playing away, we found two games. Results were one away win, zero draws and one home win.
The visiting Birmingham Legion have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 20 goals from 16 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (15 so far). There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the former four meetings): Tampa Bay Rowdies won two games, one match ended in a draw and Birmingham Legion managed one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / threeTop Goalscorers
  S. Guenzatti Varela 22 goals |   N. Brett 19 goals |  S. Fortes dos Santos 11 goals |
Tampa Bay Rowdies missing players
Birmingham Legion missing players
| Tampa Bay Rowdies | Birmingham Legion | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 33 | 17 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 16 | 32 |
| 24 | 14 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 8 | 18 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 61 | 43 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 20 | 51 |
| 25 | 12 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 15 | 31 |
| 97% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 94% | 97% |
| 73% | 82% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 62% | 66% |
| 55% | 71% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 38% | 50% |
| 12% | 24% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 19% | 28% |
| 9% | 18% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 6% | 9% |
| 42% | 47% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 56% |
| 45% | 47% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 44% | 31% |
| 15% | 6% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | 16% |
| 5.5 | 6.6 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 1.6 | 5 |
| 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 9 | 5.2 |
| 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11.8 | 14.3 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 10.1 | 10.7 |
| 5.2 | 6.8 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| 35% | 37% | 56% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 35% |
| 7 | 7.1 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11.5 | 10.3 |
| 2.1 | 1.9 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
- Birmingham Legion have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Birmingham Legion have the the best goal difference (+5) away in USL Championship
- Birmingham Legion have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Birmingham Legion have scored away.
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the fewest conceded goals (10) at home in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the fewest conceded goals (23) in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (11) in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the most clean sheets (15) in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the most points (40) at home in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the most scored goals (37) at home in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the most scored goals in the second half (33) in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the the best goal difference (+27) at home in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have the the best goal difference (+32) in USL Championship
- Tampa Bay Rowdies have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Tampa Bay Rowdies haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 32 | 23 | 2 | 7 | 55 | 23 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 37 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 32 | 71 |
| 2 | Charlotte Independence | 32 | 18 | 5 | 9 | 57 | 36 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 59 |
| 3 | Pittsburgh Riverhounds | 32 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 52 | 34 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 21 | 18 | 58 |
| 4 | Miami FC II | 32 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 55 | 40 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 22 | 15 | 54 |
| 5 | Hartford Athletic | 32 | 12 | 5 | 15 | 50 | 50 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 0 | 41 |
| 6 | Charleston Battery | 32 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 49 | 60 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 25 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 35 | -11 | 37 |
| 7 | New York RB II | 32 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 42 | 67 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 22 | 30 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 37 | -25 | 28 |
| 8 | Loudoun United | 32 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 31 | 78 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 20 | 39 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 39 | -47 | 15 |