Austin vs San Diego Prediction & Betting Tips

Form guide: two very different runs

Austin have not lost since mid-August, picking up two wins and three draws in their last five matches. It is not spectacular form, plenty of stalemates in there, but it is solid and there is no sign of collapse.

Austin: 20 completed matches; San Diego: 20 completed matches.

Austin

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

24

Conceded

27

Difference

-3

San Diego

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

33

Conceded

34

Difference

-1

San Diego's picture is messier. After winning at home against LA Galaxy in late August, they have lost three straight, including a heavy 0-5 home defeat to Philadelphia, before scraping a draw away at Inter Miami last time out.

San Diego's away form has gone flat at exactly the wrong moment.

Head-to-head: San Diego's home party, Austin's away sting

Of the three recent meetings on record, San Diego have won twice by big margins, 5-0 and 2-0, but both of those came at their own ground. The one match actually played at Austin, back in March last year, went the other way, with Austin winning 2-1.

So this history doesn't hand San Diego a psychological edge for this particular trip. If anything, the sample suggests Austin have coped fine with this opponent on home soil.

Table position: barely anything between them

San Diego sit 11th with 31 points from 26 games, Austin are 12th on 30. Goal difference tells a similar story, San Diego have scored and conceded 44 apiece, Austin have shipped 44 while scoring only 32.

Neither club is fighting from a position of real superiority here. It's a genuinely tight table entry, so form and matchday details carry extra weight.

Team news: absentees on both sides

San Diego's list is the longer one, with several players out through injury or international duty, including Gabriel Pirani and S. Vines, plus others such as D. Vazquez and W. Eisner listed as questionable. A. Dreyer, their most creative outlet with 10 assists this season, does appear available.

Austin:

Penalty cards:

Guilherme Biro x 2 x 5

Injury list:

M. Desler

Guilherme Biro

P. Placheta

J. Rosales

M. Uzuni

San Diego:

Best assist providers:

A. Dreyer - 10

Injury list:

L. Morgan

D. Vazquez

W. Eisner

E. Achouri

Gabriel Pirani

A. Pellegrino

O. Valakari

S. Vines

dos Santos CJ

A. Mighten

Austin have their own gaps. Guilherme Biro, their most-carded player, misses out through yellow-card suspension, and Uzuni is away on international duty. M. Desler is a fitness doubt too, but Austin's missing list looks shorter than San Diego's.

San Diego look the more short-handed of the two heading into this one.