El Paso Locomotive FC plays their last home match in May against Sacramento Republic FC. Currently, Sacramento sits in 9th place with 14 points. El Paso has a game in hand, sitting in 13th place with 13 points. The last four matches for Sacramento resulted in D-L-W-L, El Paso’s last four matches resulted in D-W-W-D. A win here for El Paso has the potential to land them in the top five of the Western Conference.
Entering this match, El Paso boasts an 85.2 percent pass success rate across the entire squad, whereas Sacramento registers a 77.5 percent pass success rate. Locomotive also performs on average eight percent better in regard to possession compared to Sacramento. Both teams enter the contest with nine goals scored inside the box.
Sacramento holds a road game record of 2-3-0. They broke a three-game losing streak when they beat Fresno on May 8, which was their last away game.
This will be the first meeting between the two clubs. El Paso travels to Sacramento in late September to close out the home and away series.