📊 Form Guide

D.C. United

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D.C. United will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 0-1 MLS losing effort in their last game against Nashville.

In that game, D.C. United had 41% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. Nashville had 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Sam Surridge (18') was the scorer for Nashville.

It has been seldom in recent times where D.C. United have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that D.C. United have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 14 goals during that time.

Atlanta United

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Columbus Crew in MLS action, Atlanta United and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Atlanta United managed 37% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Atlanta United was Brooks Lennon (56'). Columbus Crew got 19 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. Andrés Herrera (23') and Jacen Russell-Rowe (32', 42') scored for Columbus Crew.

The stats tell the story, and Atlanta United have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 14 goals in total. At the back, Atlanta United can certainly do much better. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained here.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 02/04/2022 shows us that D.C. United have won 1 of these & Atlanta United 4, with the number of draws being 1.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between them in this period, with 7 of them from Black-and-Red and 11 belonging to The Five Stripes. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was MLS match day 26 on 19/06/2024 which finished with the scoreline of D.C. United 0-1 Atlanta United.

On that day, D.C. United managed 54% possession and 19 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

Atlanta United got 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Thiago Almada (79') scored.

The match was refereed by Pierre-Luc Lauziere.

🗞️ Team News: D.C. United

Looking at personnel, there is just one fitness concern for the D.C. United boss Troy Lesesne to be concerned with due to a largely intact set of players. Lukas MacNaughton (Muscle injury) won’t play.

It looks as if Black-and-Red look set to use a 3-4-3 formation for this one with Luis Barraza, Lucas Bartlett, Kye Rowles, Matti Peltola, Conner Antley, Brandon Servania, Boris Enow, David Schnegg, Jared Stroud, Christian Benteke and Peglow.

🗞️ Team News: Atlanta United

Atlanta United boss Ronny Deila has some current player fitness concerns. Ajani Fortune (Broken foot), Josh Cohen (Groin injury), Tristan Muyumba (Muscle injury) and Stian Gregersen (Hamstring injury) are those who can’t be considered.

It’s our belief that The Five Stripes appear most likely to utilise a 5-3-2 system, starting Brad Guzan, Brooks Lennon, Matthew Edwards, Efraín Morales, Luis Abram, Pedro Amador, Alexey Miranchuk, Mateusz Klich, Will Reilly, Miguel Almirón and Emmanuel Latte Lath.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Atlanta United and D.C. United could both end up scoring at least one each in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating the two teams.

Let’s see how it plays out, but we expect to see goals and there is to be a real possibility it will end up level. We therefore think that it’s going to be a very competitive game with a 2-2 at the end of this game.

Lucas Pereira, 23:07 05/07/2025