Seattle Sounders have traveled here for an interesting Leagues Cup fight against Real Salt Lake. Prepare for the match with this cup preview!
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Seattle Sounders, who are travelling more than 1200 kilometers to play this game.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Real Salt Lake form and stats
The Real Salt Lake followers enjoyed the previous game, watching their team host New York RB and win 3-1. Midfielder Luna was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.01 (out of ten) in that game. Luna scored two goals, hit one key pass and had 20 successful passes (of 25 total).
Before that, Salt played out a Major League Soccer draw 2-2 when visiting Sporting KC.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Real Salt Lake have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 25 games) they have won 12 times, drawn 7 and lost 6.
There will be little rest for Real Salt Lake after this match as they are travelling to Monterrey for a Leagues Cup game in only four days.
Seattle Sounders form and stats
Sounders's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Dallas that finished 1-1. Rusnák got a match rating of 7.83 in that game, top player of the team. Rusnák hit four key passes and had 48 successful passes (of 49 total).
Prior to that match, the Seattle Sounders manager Schmetzer faced defeat when travelling to SJ Earthquakes and losing 0-2.Seattle Sounders are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 15 matches.
Head 2 Head
Real Salt Lake-Seattle Sounders H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Salt three wins, Seattle Sounders four wins, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  J. Morris 9 goals |   J. Savarino Quintero 6 goals |  D. Musovski 5 goals |
Real Salt Lake missing players
Seattle Sounders missing players
| Real Salt Lake | Seattle Sounders | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 43 | 20 | Scored | S | 15 | 31 | ||
| 35 | 17 | Conceded | C | 20 | 30 | ||
| 84% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 84% | ||
| 76% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 56% | ||
| 72% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | ||
| 56% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 42% | 36% | ||
| 5 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 5.8 | ||
| 4 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 4.8 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 15.8 | 17.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.2 | 12.2 | ||
| 6.3 | 6.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.8 | ||
| 27% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 33% | ||
| 12.9 | 11.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.3 | 11.1 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Salt Lake | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Seattle Sounders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Monterrey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Salt Lake | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Seattle Sounders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Monterrey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
