📊 Form Guide

Nashville

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Nashville will be looking for another win after the 2-1 MLS success vs New York Red Bulls.

In that match, Nashville had 44% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Nashville, the scorers were Patrick Yazbek (34') and Hany Mukhtar (63'). On the other side, New York Red Bulls got 7 shots at goal with 2 on target. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (56') was the scorer for New York Red Bulls.

Fixtures involving Nashville have proved to be exciting encounters lately with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum of 21 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 13 of them belonging to Nashville. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this match, of course.

D.C. United

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In their last game, D.C. United drew 0-0 in the MLS match with New York City FC.

In that match, D.C. United managed 42% possession and 5 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. New York City FC got 15 shots at goal with 5 on target.

Troy Lesesne's D.C. United have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 6 times throughout their latest six matches. The aggregate of goals that they have conceded during that period equals 7.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 16/10/2021, there has been little to separate the clubs with Nashville winning 2 of those games, D.C. United 2 and 2 being draws in normal time.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 10 of them from Nashville and 8 coming from Black-and-Red. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

The previous league match between these sides was MLS match day 46 on 03/10/2024 when it finished Nashville 3-4 D.C. United.

That time, Nashville had 37% possession and 19 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorers were Alex Muyl (6', 62') and Hany Mukhtar (45').

D.C. United got 27 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. Lucas Bartlett (24'), Christian Benteke (76') and Gabriel Pirani (94', 97') scored.

The match was refereed by Lukasz Szpala.

📋 Team News: Nashville

Tyler Boyd (Cruciate ligament tear), Walker Zimmerman (concussion), Taylor Washington (Knee injury) and Maximus Ekk (Knee injury) are unavailable for Nashville boss B.J Callaghan.

It seems likely that Nashville could go for a 4-2-3-1 system in the match with Joe Willis, Andy Najar, Jeisson Palacios, Jack Maher, Daniel Lovitz, Patrick Yazbek, Edvard Tagseth, Jacob Shaffelburg, Hany Mukhtar, Alex Muyl and Sam Surridge.

🗞️ Team News: D.C. United

D.C. United boss Troy Lesesne has to choose a team with limited availability. Dominique Badji (Hamstring injury), Peglow (Muscle injury), Lukas MacNaughton (Muscle injury) and Gabriel Pirani (Knee injury) are those who can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, Black-and-Red appear most likely to utilise a 3-4-3 lineup with a starting lineup of Luis Barraza, Garrison Tubbs, Lucas Bartlett, Kye Rowles, Aaron Herrera, Matti Peltola, Boris Enow Takang, David Schnegg, Hosei Kijima, Jacob Murrell and Randall Leal.

💡 Prediction

For this match, we think that Nashville should fashion enough chances to find the net more than once while possibly not conceding when they line up against D.C. United, who may well find it hard to score themselves.

We’re therefore expecting to see a fairly comfortable 2-0 margin for Nashville at full-time.

Victor Martins, 00:03 18/05/2025