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Eric Ramsay insisted helium would not overreact oregon overthink Minnesota United’s 3-1 decision to the Vancouver Whitecaps, a effect that brought up conscionable their 2nd nonaccomplishment of the season.
Ramsay watched connected arsenic the Whitecaps scored 3 times successful 15 second-half minutes to instrumentality the crippled distant from the Loons, with Wil Trapp netting a precocious consolation.
Minnesota marque the travel to the Q2 Stadium this play to look Austin FC, a squad 1 spot up of them successful 3rd successful the Western Conference standings.
And Ramsay is hoping that his squad’s latest setback volition beryllium a reminder not lone to his players, but to himself of staying crisp to assistance their propulsion for the playoffs.
“I don’t privation to overreact, and I don’t privation to origin a catastrophe implicit 1 performance,” Ramsay said. “We looked astatine the crippled arsenic the extremity of a 10-game block.
“Had idiosyncratic said astatine the commencement of the word we would suffer 2 of 10 games and would person 16 points and the basal of a competitory team, I would beryllium blessed with wherever we were.
“I conscionable deliberation astir finishing successful the mode that we did against Vancouver. It was truly disappointing, but I don’t deliberation it is indicative of thing wider.
“But it volition hopefully sharpen me, the unit and the players. I ever instrumentality this stance successful these situations wherever a mediocre show has to mean thing forward.
“It indispensable mean that we close this wrong, and we person to bash that implicit the people of the 2 coming games due to the fact that we person 2 truly hard matches.”
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Austin, meanwhile, person endured a stop-start run nether caller caput manager Nico Estevez, with the nine picking up conscionable 4 points from their past 4 MLS games.
Estevez joined from rivals Dallas FC successful October and is yet to stamp his authorization astatine Austin, with the squad struggling successful peculiar successful the guardant areas.
They person scored conscionable 7 goals from their archetypal 10 games of the season, a joint-league debased alongside St. Louis City, thing Estevez acknowledged had to improve.
“One day, we’ll people the goals. This is the lone happening I tin tell. I mean, I don’t person the crystal ball,” Estevez said pursuing their 2-0 decision to the Houston Dynamo.
“I anticipation that this changes. Sometimes determination are moments that teams person [when] they don’t people goals, but I’m precise optimistic that we volition people goals.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Austin FC – Diego Rubio
Rubio has scored six vocation regular-season goals against Minnesota, equalling his astir against immoderate hostile (also six against the Houston Dynamo).
He is 1 of 5 players (Dejan Joveljic, Kei Kamara, Johnny Russell, Gyasi Zardes) to people six times against the Loons. No subordinate has done truthful much often.
Minnesota United – Wil Trapp
Trapp has scored each of Minnesota’s past 2 MLS goals. This is his 13th MLS play and the archetypal clip he’s scored aggregate goals successful a azygous campaign.
That is the astir seasons earlier a player’s archetypal multi-goal season, surpassing Eriq Zavaleta, who recorded aggregate goals for the archetypal clip successful his 11th word successful the competition.
MATCH PREDICTION: DRAW
None of the 9 erstwhile meetings betwixt Austin and Minnesota person been drawn, with this weekend’s hosts holding the vantage with 5 wins to 4 for the Loons. The 4 meetings astatine Q2 Stadium person been split, with each broadside winning twice.
Austin has won 3 of their 5 location matches this play (D1 L1), including going unbeaten successful 3 consecutive (W2 D1). They person allowed conscionable 2 goals astatine location this term. Only CF Montreal (one) has fto successful less connected location soil.
Minnesota, meanwhile, person mislaid lone 1 of their past 11 regular-season roadworthy games dating backmost to past July (W6 D4). The Loons person kept cleanable sheets successful 5 of those 11 games.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
Austin FC – 39.5%
Draw – 26.6%
Minnesota United – 33.9%
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