📏 Form Guide

FC Cincinatti

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FC Cincinatti will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 1-0 MLS defeat last time out to New York City FC.

In that game, FC Cincinatti managed 50% possession and 15 shots on goal with 4 on target. On the other side, New York City FC had 18 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Julián Fernández (9') scored for New York City FC.

Over their preceding 6 fixtures, Pat Noonan's FC Cincinatti have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a total of 9 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match of 1.5.

Austin FC

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Austin FC will come into the meeting following on from a 3-2 US Open Cup win over El Paso Locomotive in their previous match.

For Austin FC, goals were scored by Brandon Vázquez (73', 80') and Myrto Uzuni (76'). Roberto Avila (20', 34') scored for El Paso Locomotive.

A tendency of at least one team not managing to score in games involving Austin FC has been fairly consistent of late. Examining their last six games reveals that this has occurred 5 times. In those clashes, their opponents have hit a goal total of 12 and Austin FC have scored 2.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league game featuring these sides was MLS match day 1 on 26/02/2022 when it ended Austin FC 5-0 FC Cincinatti.

That time, Austin FC had 57% possession and 18 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorers were Cecilio Domínguez (2', 61'), Alex Ring (14') and Sebastián Driussi (43').

FC Cincinatti got 13 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Alex Kann (93' Own goal) scored.

The referee was Ismail Elfath.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Cincinatti

In all likelihood, FC Cincinatti may well kick off with a 5-3-2 system in the match, utilising Roman Celentano, Matt Miazga, Miles Robinson, Nick Hagglund, Luca Orellano, Lukas Engel, Evander Ferreira, Pavel Bucha, Yuya Kubo, Sergio Santos and Kevin Denkey.

📰 Team News: Austin FC

Austin FC manager Nico Estévez has to currently contend with reduced team options. Mikkel Desler (Muscle injury) and Micah Burton (Leg injury) are not able to play.

We’re of the thinking that Austin FC will likely utilise a 5-3-2 formation, settling for Brad Stuver, Oleksandr Svatok, Guilherme Biro, Brendan Hines-Ike, Jon Gallagher, Zan Kolmanic, Owen Wolff, Ilie Sanchez, Besard Sabovic, Myrto Uzuni and Brandon Vazquez.

💭 Prediction

Our feeling is that Austin FC could find themselves up against it to register a score against this FC Cincinatti outfit who we think should be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

That’s why our selection here is for a very even contest with a 1-0 winning margin for FC Cincinatti at the end of this game.

Let’s see.

Victor Martins, 23:33 10/05/2025