Richmond Kickers
Record 4-4-4 (7th in Eastern Conference)
Supporters: Red Army
The Hounds travel to Richmond this afternoon to take on the Kickers at RVA Stadium at 5PM, a place where the Hounds have actually had some success away from home. Pittsburgh won 2-1 in Richmond last May and also drew 1-1 early in the 2013 season.
You cannot get more average than Richmond at the moment, having a perfectly equal 4-4-4 record so far. That is good enough though, to have them sitting 7th in the East, occupying one of the last playoff positions. Unfortunately for us, comfortably average is something that we would all take in a second, the position that we currently find ourselves.
Hopeful, is all we can be at the moment and hope that the return of Earls and possibly new signing Jack Thompson can bring a bit of spark to the team, who has played better under Brandt, without the results though.
Back to Richmond and what we can expect when the boys travel to Virginia today. A couple of familiar faces you will remember when watching, former Hound Brian Ownby and longtime USL goal scorer Matthew Delicate. Ownby made a handful of appearances for Pittsburgh in 2014, in a less than memorable loan from then affiliated Houston Dynamo.
He is having success though in his second spell at Richmond, having spent some time there on loan in 2012-2013, Ownby leads the Kickers in scoring with 3 goals and 3 assists.
Delicate is a USL Veteran who knows how to find the back of the net and always is threat to score, Hounds fans should need no reminding of that.
The Kickers are not the hottest of teams lately and could be in the right position to suffer a home defeat to the desperate Hounds. Richmond is winless in their last five, losing 3 and drawing 2, not playing like the team who won 4 of their first five games.
The supporters group for Richmond is the River City Red Army or “Red Army”. The group is pretty similar to the Steel Army in size and the Kickers average around a little bit higher attendance than Pittsburgh overall.
In other notes, RVA Stadium will host a watch party for the USMNT game vs Paraguay after the match tonight. Also, Richmond will play a friendly against Premiership side Swansea City on July 11th.
Roll on 3 points tonight, Come on You Hounds.
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