Philadelphia Union vs New Eng. Revolution Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Philadelphia Union

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Philadelphia Union head into this fixture after a 0-0 MLS drawn result against D.C. United.

In that match, Philadelphia Union had 46% possession and 16 shots on goal with 2 on target. D.C. United got 12 shots on goal with 4 on target.

Jim Curtin's Philadelphia Union have scored a sum total of 7 times over their past 6 outings. At the other end, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in those games stands at 8.

New Eng. Revolution

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Inter Miami in MLS competition, New Eng. Revolution will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, New Eng. Revolution had 58% possession and 9 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for New Eng. Revolution was Carles Gil (26'). Inter Miami got 7 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. David Ruiz (6') and Josef Martínez (44') scored for Inter Miami.

Looking at their form, and New Eng. Revolution have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 6 goals in total. At the back, New Eng. Revolution certainly have room for improvement.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head clashes stretching back to 25/11/2020 tells us that Philadelphia Union have won 1 of these games & New Eng. Revolution 3, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

13 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 5 of them from The U and 8 coming from Revs. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.

The previous league clash between these sides was MLS match day 28 on 16/07/2022 when the final score was Philadelphia Union 2-1 New Eng. Revolution.

In that game, Philadelphia Union managed 44% possession and 20 shots on goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Mikael Uhre (75') and Dániel Gazdag (79').

For their opponents, New Eng. Revolution had 18 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Gustavo Bou (61') scored.

The match was refereed by Rubiel Vazquez.

📋 Team News: Philadelphia Union

The Philadelphia Union manager Jim Curtin has no fitness worries whatsoever before this clash thanks to a fully injury-free group available for selection.

In all likelihood, The U should kick off with a 5-3-2 system for the game, handing starts to Andre Blake, Jakob Glesnes, Jack Elliott, Damion Lowe, Olivier Mbaizo, Kai Wagner, Jose Andres Martinez, Leon Flach, Daniel Gazdag, Julian Carranza and Mikael Uhre.

📰 Team News: New Eng. Revolution

With a completely injury-free squad ready to go, the New Eng. Revolution boss Bruce Arena doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all coming into this clash.

We’re of the thinking that Revs seem most likely to play in a 4-3-3 formation, settling for Djordje Petrovic, Brandon Bye, Andrew Farrell, David Romney, DeJuan Jones, Matt Polster, Carles Gil, Latif Blessing, Noel Buck, Bobby Wood and Emmanuel Boateng.

💭 Prediction

We believe that New Eng. Revolution should have enough to put a goal past this Philadelphia Union outfit, although that possibly won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re expecting a very close game with a 2-1 win for Philadelphia Union by the conclusion of the game. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 11:24 16/05/2023