Philadelphia Union vs Orlando City Predictions

Philadelphia Union have seen a slight dip in form at home recently in the MLS, only winning 1 of their last 4 home games. The 3 games they failed to win were all against teams in the Western Conference however, and their form against Eastern Conference sides is substantially better, winning all of their last 5 home games against sides in their own division.

The U’s games tend to see a large number of goals, with Both Teams to score landing in all of their last 7 MLS matches. In their last 10 MLS matches, Union have won with both teams to score landing a huge 5 times! Union have only failed to score once at home this season, and have scored 2+ on 6 occasions.

Orlando City have, barring a shock 3-0 away win against Montreal Impact, been poor on the road this season. Including their win against the Impact, they have won just 3 of their 9 away games, one of those wins coming against 2nd from last Columbus Crew. Orlando have lost 4 and drawn 2 also on the road.

Orlando do score a decent number of goals on the road despite their relatively poor record, scoring in 7 of their 9 away league games this season. They have scored exactly 1 goal in 5 of those away games. In head-to-head matches, both teams tend to find the net, with 7 of their last 10 matches seeing both teams to score land.

Kacper Przybylko comes into this game in great goalscoring form for the Union, scoring 4 goals in his last 3 games including 2 goals against Orlando City 3 days ago in the reverse fixture. We expect him to find the net again on Saturday night. Nani is the top scorer for Orlando City, with both players mentioned sitting on 8 goals for the season. We expect Philadelphia Union to prove too strong for Orlando City in this one, but we do expect Orlando to find the net, so a bet on Philadelphia Union to win and both teams to score looks good here. We expect a repeat scoreline from the reverse fixture, so we’re going with a 3-1 home win.