Open game expected at ONEOK Field: Tulsa Roughnecks vs Louisville City preview

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Competition: USA USL Championship
Competition: Sat 05.Aug
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: ONEOK Field (10018 seats)

Tulsa Roughnecks have some catching up to do from their 11th spot, and the job begins against Louisville City. Read more!

Insights:
  • Tulsa Roughnecks is in the best form (5-0-1) in USL Championship
  • Louisville City have the most clean sheets (5) away in USL Championship

These teams have little in common geographically as Louisville City have to travel 1000 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

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!

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Tulsa Roughnecks form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the USL Championship this season. Tulsa Roughnecks have only managed 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses from their games here at ONEOK Field. After failing to beat Orange County here at ONEOK Field, Tulsa Roughnecks has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

The regulars are hoping that Tulsa Roughnecks will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-3 away loss in the match against Tampa Bay Rowdies (placed 4th). The first defeat after going unbeaten through five league fixtures.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Rio Grande Valley in a game that was won 2-1.

This is expected to be a close game, with Roughnecks perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Tulsa Roughnecks as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Tulsa Roughnecks has won 5 of these, drawn 1 and lost 2.

Goal party? We don't know the future, but we do know that 9 of the 12 most recent league games with this team has contained at least three goals.

Tulsa Roughnecks has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Roughnecks's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Louisville City form and stats

3-4-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Louisville City in their USL Championship matches away.

The supporters enjoyed Louisville City's previous game versus Indy Eleven (placed 7th), a 2-0 win played at home. Those three points felt sweet as this side had gone three league matches without victory.

Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Birmingham Legion.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Louisville City playing away and similar expectations, we found 5 relevant matches. Results were 3 Louisville City wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

Louisville have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Louisville City - Tulsa Roughnecks 1-2 was the score in these contenders' previous head-to-head match, earlier this season. As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's three Tulsa Roughnecks victories, two draws and four Louisville City wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less. One of the profiles has been Lancaster with 8 goals scored against Roughnecks in these 9 games.

Top Goalscorers

Tulsa RoughnecksP. Goodrum
P. Goodrum
7 goals
Tulsa RoughnecksM. Epps
M. Epps
6 goals
Louisville CityW. Harris
W. Harris
4 goals

Tulsa Roughnecks missing players

Louisville City missing players

Tulsa Roughnecks Louisville City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 1 Played P 1 10 21
7 5 1 Won W 0 3 9
7 3 0 Drew D 1 5 5
8 3 0 Lost L 0 2 7
27 17 3 Scored S 0 8 20
34 15 2 Conceded C 0 11 23
91% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 70% 86%
82% 82% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 50% 52%
64% 73% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 30% 38%
27% 27% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 30% 24%
14% 18% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 5%
64% 64% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 30% 33%
23% 27% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 50% 48%
23% 18% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 50% 33%
 
3.8 3.8 1 Corners for (avg) C F 7 5 5
4.4 3.9 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3 4.2 3.7
3 3.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.7 1.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.1 12.3 15 Shots (avg) S ( 11 10 12
3.8 4.2 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2.3 3.5
33% 37% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 35% 27%
 
14.6 13.6 15 Shots against (avg) S A 5 12 10.4
4.9 4.3 8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.8 3.4
Key stats in USL Championship this season:
  • Louisville City have the most clean sheets (5) away in USL Championship
  • Tulsa Roughnecks have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Tulsa Roughnecks have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Louisville City have scored away.
  • Tulsa Roughnecks is in the best form (5-0-1) in USL Championship

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Charleston Battery 16 8 4 4 21 24 9 3 3 3 9 16 7 5 1 1 12 8 -3 28
2 Pittsburgh Riverhounds 15 7 6 2 20 11 6 5 1 0 12 3 9 2 5 2 8 8 9 27
3 Memphis 901 13 7 4 2 27 14 8 3 3 2 16 11 5 4 1 0 11 3 13 25
4 Tampa Bay Rowdies 15 7 4 4 23 16 9 5 2 2 17 10 6 2 2 2 6 6 7 25
5 Birmingham Legion 15 7 1 7 21 24 8 4 1 3 14 14 7 3 0 4 7 10 -3 22
6 Louisville City 14 6 4 4 15 18 6 3 0 3 7 9 8 3 4 1 8 9 -3 22
7 Indy Eleven 14 4 4 6 15 17 7 1 3 3 5 9 7 3 1 3 10 8 -2 16
8 Detroit City 15 4 4 7 10 14 6 2 1 3 3 4 9 2 3 4 7 10 -4 16
9 Loudoun United 16 5 1 10 18 26 8 3 1 4 11 9 8 2 0 6 7 17 -8 16
10 Miami FC II 15 2 7 6 18 24 9 2 4 3 12 10 6 0 3 3 6 14 -6 13
11 Tulsa Roughnecks 16 2 7 7 17 26 7 1 3 3 8 10 9 1 4 4 9 16 -9 13
12 Hartford Athletic 15 2 4 9 20 32 8 1 2 5 8 15 7 1 2 4 12 17 -12 10

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.