📏 Form Guide

Minnesota United

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Minnesota United fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 3-2 US Open Cup victory against St. Louis City.

For Minnesota United, the scorers were Kelvin Yeboah (10') and Anthony Markanich (85', 88'). Marcel Hartel (55') and João Klauss (65') scored for St. Louis City.

Over their prior six games, Eric Ramsay's Minnesota United have managed to score a total of 12 times resulting in an average number of goals per match of 2.

Austin FC

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Austin FC go into this encounter following a 3-1 US Open Cup win with the eclipse of Houston Dynamo in their previous fixture.

For Austin FC, the goalscorers were Brandon Vázquez (29'), Osman Bukari (56') and Ilie Sánchez (60'). Ezequiel Ponce (70') scored for Houston Dynamo.

Looking at their form, and Austin FC have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 9 goals in all. In defence, Austin FC can certainly do much better. That kind of trend might not follow through into this game, however.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 21/08/2022, there has been little to separate the clubs with Minnesota United winning 3 of those games, Austin FC 3 and 0 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

An aggregate of 18 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them for Loons and 9 coming from Austin. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

The previous league match between these sides was MLS match day 16 on 04/05/2025 when the final score was Austin FC 0-3 Minnesota United.

That day, Austin FC managed 66% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player to score was Ilie Sánchez (22' Own goal).

For their opponents, Minnesota United had 11 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Anthony Markanich (35') and Joaquin Pereyra (91') scored.

The referee was Jorge Gonzalez.

📋 Team News: Minnesota United

Hassani Dotson (Meniscus injury) and Kipp Keller (Hamstring injury) won’t be available for Minnesota United manager Eric Ramsay.

It looks as if Loons will possibly make use of the 5-4-1 system for this game, handing starts to Dayne St. Clair, Julian Gressel, Carlos Harvey, Morris Duggan, Nicolás Romero, Anthony Markanich, Bongokuhle Hlongwane, Ho-yeon Jung, Owen Gene, Sang-bin Jeong and Kelvin Yeboah.

🗞️ Team News: Austin FC

Austin FC manager Nico Estévez has some current player fitness concerns. Daniel Pereira (Hip injury), Robert Taylor (Muscle injury) and Mikkel Desler (Muscle injury) will miss out on this game.

We are inclined to think that Austin FC could decide to make use of a 4-3-3 system, settling for Brad Stuver, Jon Gallagher, Oleksandr Svatok, Julio Cascante, Guilherme Biro, Owen Wolff, Ilie Sanchez, Nicolás Dubersarsky, Osman Bukari, Brandon Vázquez and Jáder Obrian.

🔮 Prediction

In this match, Austin FC should have enough to find the net against this Minnesota United outfit, although that might not quite be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re tipping a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 advantage for Minnesota United when all is said and done. It’s a very tough call.

Andre Moura, 00:01 25/05/2025