📏 Form Guide

Minnesota United

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Minnesota United will play in this fixture following a 1-1 MLS stalemate vs Real Salt Lake.

In that match, Minnesota United had 59% possession and 25 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Minnesota United was Tani Oluwaseyi (86'). Real Salt Lake got 10 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Cristián Arango (24') scored for Real Salt Lake.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Minnesota United have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Minnesota United have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 7 goals along the way.

Houston Dynamo

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Chicago Fire in MLS competition, Houston Dynamo and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Houston Dynamo had 59% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Houston Dynamo was Ibrahim Aliyu (65'). At the other end, Chicago Fire had 8 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Xherdan Shaqiri (10') and Brian Gutiérrez (78') scored for Chicago Fire.

In the course of their 6 most recent matches, Ben Olsen's Houston Dynamo have converted 6 times - giving them a goals per game average of 1.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 26/09/2021 tells us that Minnesota United have won 5 of these games and Houston Dynamo 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.

A combined total of 16 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 10 for Loons and 6 coming from Orange Crush. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The last league game featuring the two was MLS match day 33 on 13/07/2023 when it finished Houston Dynamo 0-3 Minnesota United.

That day, Houston Dynamo had 73% possession and 24 attempts at goal with 6 on target.

On the other side, Minnesota United got 8 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Bongokuhle Hlongwane (15'), Teemu Pukki (20') and Ismael Tajouri-Shradi (87') scored.

The match was refereed by Marcos de Oliveira.

📰 Team News: Minnesota United

The Minnesota United boss Eric Ramsay doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all before this game thanks to a completely healthy group available for selection.

It looks as if Loons should kick off with a 4-3-3 system this time, handing starts to Dayne St. Clair, DJ Taylor, Michael Boxall, Hugo Bacharach, Devin Padelford, Robin Lod, Wil Trapp, Hassani Dotson, Sang-bin Jeong, Teemu Pukki and Bongokuhle Hlongwane.

📋 Team News: Houston Dynamo

Houston Dynamo manager Ben Olsen has to currently contend with reduced team options. Héctor Herrera (Knee injury) and Nelson Quiñónes (Knee injury) will not be playing here.

We are inclined to think that Orange Crush could decide to utilise a 4-1-2-3 lineup, giving starts to Steve Clark, Griffin Dorsey, Erik Sviatchenko, Ethan Bartlow, Brad Smith, Artur, A. Carrasquilla, Jan Gregus, Sebastian Kowalczyk, Amine Bassi and Ibrahim Aliyu.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, Houston Dynamo should be able to breach the defence of this Minnesota United outfit, however that is unlikely to be enough to prevent defeat.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 2-1 victory for Minnesota United after the 90. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Lucas Pereira, 00:00 14/04/2024