MLS Betting Tips

Atlanta United vs Austin betting tips: Major League Soccer preview, predictions and odds


This'll be a first-ever meeting of these two clubs. Atlanta United have lost just 16 of 92 matches since moving into Mercedes-Benz Stadium in September 2017 across all competitions. 

Both teams to score is 8/15.

Both teams to score and over 2.5 goals is 5/6.

Austin FC to win and over 2.5 goals is 4/1.

Josef Martínez has scored against 25 different teams in MLS, only failing to net again Nashville. The Venezuelan is 15/4 to break the deadlock and 20/21 to add Austin to this list.

Sebastián Driussi is the joint-top scorer in the league this season with 10. He is 7/1 to open the scoring and 2/1 to score anytime. 

Match preview

Will Austin FC's remarkable start to the campaign continue?

Last weekend, despite being 2-0 down just 22 minutes in, the Verde and Black fought back and won 3-2 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.

Ethan Finlay halving the deficit before Sebastián Driussi equalised in first half stoppage time with Maxi Urruti lashing home the winner later on.

This is already the third time both the in-form Argentinian forwards have scored in the same MLS match this season.

More remarkably, it's the fifth time Austin FC have been two goals down this season, only losing one of these games, fighting back to win twice.

All in all, having taken ten points from the last 12 available, the Texans are second in the west, just two points behind leaders LAFC.

Perhaps they're taking inspiration from Atlanta United who won MLS Cup in just their second-ever season, something Austin would love to replicate.

These days, the Five Stripes are languishing down in 11th in the east, even though they came from behind twice last weekend to draw with NYCFC.

Josef Martínez's magnificent header and then Dom Dwyer's cool finish, the latter just two minutes from time, earning a draw at Yankee Stadium.

However, Gonzalo Pineda's side have now only won one of their last seven matches, only beating Inter Miami and Chicago Fire since 2 April.

So, Austin will fancy their chances of a victory at Mercedes-Benz Stadium?

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