| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Knights | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6/15 | 6-8 |
| NJ LUSO Parma | 8 | L3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 1/15 | 4-10 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2008-06-21 – 2009-05-23) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-05-23 | NJ LUSO Parma | 1-2 | Brooklyn Knights |
| 2008-06-21 | NJ LUSO Parma | 0-4 | Brooklyn Knights |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Knights | 8 | 16 | 24 | 5 | WLLWL | 12 | -4 |
| NJ LUSO Parma | 17 | 16 | 8 | -30 | LLLLL | 32 | -15 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2009-07-02
16 points separated the sides: Brooklyn Knights 8th on 24, NJ LUSO Parma 17th on 8. NJ LUSO Parma's recent output lagged their position: 32nd on form over five rounds while 17th in the table. Against a league average of 1.68 goals per team per game, Brooklyn Knights ran at 1.56 scored and 1.25 conceded, NJ LUSO Parma at 0.88 and 2.75.
NJ LUSO Parma had been beaten in three straight games.
Metropolitan Oval in Metropolitan Oval staged the fixture, a ground that holds 3,000.
