📏 Form Guide

Houston Dynamo

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Houston Dynamo will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 1-2 MLS triumph versus Minnesota United.

In that game, Houston Dynamo had 43% possession and 7 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. For Houston Dynamo, the scorers were Micael (38') and Sebastian Kowalczyk (77'). Minnesota United got 24 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Franco Fragapane (70') was the scorer for Minnesota United.

Houston Dynamo haven’t had any problems with scoring, finding the back of the net every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.

They have claimed a sum of 8 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5. That aside, we must now wait to see if such a trend will be maintained in this next game or not.

Austin FC

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against St. Louis City in MLS action, Austin FC will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Austin FC had 62% possession and 2 shots on goal with 0 of them on target. For their opponents, St. Louis City got 11 attempts on goal with 4 on target. João Klauss (57') was the scorer for St. Louis City.

The stats tell the story, and Austin FC have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 11 goals overall. Defensively, Austin FC certainly have room for improvement.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes going back to 24/10/2021 shows that Houston Dynamo have won 2 of these and Austin FC 4, with the number of draws standing at 0.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 7 from Orange Crush and 11 for Austin. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

The last league clash between these clubs was MLS match day 28 on 25/06/2023 when the final score was Austin FC 3-0 Houston Dynamo.

On that day, Austin FC managed 51% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. The scorers were Ethan Finlay (22'), Gyasi Zardes (32') and Julio Cascante (50').

On the other side, Houston Dynamo had 10 shots at goal with 3 on target.

The match was refereed by Victor Rivas.

📰 Team News: Houston Dynamo

Héctor Herrera (Knee injury) and Nelson Quiñónes (Knee injury) won’t be available for Houston Dynamo manager Ben Olsen.

We are thinking that Orange Crush could use a 4-2-3-1 formation in the match, handing starts to Steve Clark, Griffin Dorsey, Micael, Ethan Bartlow, Daniel Steres, A. Carrasquilla, Artur, Latif Blessing, Amine Bassi, Ibrahim Aliyu and Sebastian Kowalczyk.

📋 Team News: Austin FC

We believe Austin FC will likely elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Brad Stuver, Jon Gallagher, Julio Cascante, Brendan Hines-Ike, Hector Jimenez, Daniel Pereira, Alexander Ring, Owen Wolff, Sebastián Driussi, Jáder Obrian and Diego Rubio.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Austin FC have the ability to break down this Houston Dynamo outfit, but that isn’t expected to be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We can see a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 victory for Houston Dynamo at the end of the 90 minutes. Let’s see what eventuates.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 00:01 21/04/2024