Real Salt Lake vs Vancouver Whitecaps: Full pre-match guide and statistics

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 24.Sep
Match begins: 01:30 (UTC)
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium (20008 seats)

This is football, this is Major League Soccer and this is Real Salt Lake - Vancouver Whitecaps. Prepare with our thorough guide!

Insights:
  • Real Salt Lake have the fewest matches under the total-line (8) in Major League Soccer
  • Vancouver Whitecaps have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Real Salt Lake's stadium, Rio Tinto Stadium, has a grass surface. Vancouver Whitecaps have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Vancouver Whitecaps when playing on grass; 7 wins, 8 draws and 15 losses from 30 matches. They have scored {36 goals} in these games and conceded 54.

It's quite the trip for Vancouver Whitecaps when visiting Real Salt Lake as the cities are 1500 kilometers apart.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Salt and Vancouver Whitecaps.

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Real Salt Lake form and stats

When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Real Salt Lake have managed 5 wins, 4 draws and suffered 6 defeats from 15 games.

Real Salt Lake's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-3 versus Dallas (placed 9th). Arango has scored in four matches in a row. Badass! Ojeda (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.23/10. Ojeda served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 40 successful passes (of 48 total).

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at SJ Earthquakes.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Real Salt Lake handle that role? We have found 24 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 12 wins, 4 draws and 8 defeats.

Lots of goals and action? Nobody knows about this one, but we do know that 10 of the 12 most recent league games with this side has had at least three goals.

Salt are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 21 goals in 15 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 23 goals have been conceded.

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Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats

Playing away, Vancouver Whitecaps have won 4 games, drawn 4 and suffered 6 defeats in the Major League Soccer this season.

Vancouver Whitecaps lost away at Houston Dynamo (1-4) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. That loss was their first after four consecutive league fixtures winning points. The attacker Gauld got a match rating of 7.11 in that game. Gauld hit two key passes and had 21 successful passes (of 25 total).

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Toronto.

Vancouver Whitecaps are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.

Betting related statistic: Both teams have scored in 12 of this club's last 15 league matches.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Vancouver manager Sartini as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Colorado Rapids.

Vancouver Whitecaps have scored 17 goals on their travels this season, from 14 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Vancouver Whitecaps have conceded 25 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The two combatants have played before this season: Vancouver Whitecaps - Real Salt Lake 1-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Salt victories, one draw and five Vancouver Whitecaps wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Vancouver WhitecapsB. White
B. White
11 goals
Vancouver WhitecapsR. Gauld
R. Gauld
10 goals
Real Salt LakeJ. Savarino Quintero
J. Savarino Quintero
6 goals

Real Salt Lake missing players

Vancouver Whitecaps missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Real Salt Lake Vancouver Whitecaps
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
29 15 3 Played P 4 14 28
11 5 1 Won W 1 4 11
7 4 1 Drew D 0 4 8
11 6 1 Lost L 3 6 9
40 21 4 Scored S 6 17 46
44 23 4 Conceded C 9 25 41
86% 80% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
83% 80% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 82%
72% 73% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 64% 57%
41% 53% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 36% 36%
7% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 21% 29%
59% 47% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 79% 71%
24% 33% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 21%
31% 40% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 14%
 
5.4 6.3 6 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4.8 5.9
3.9 3 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 5.1 4.6
2.2 2.3 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 2.1
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
15.1 17.2 16.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 11.6 13.9
5.8 5.7 6.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 4 5
24% 24% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 46% 30% 33%
 
11.8 10.1 9 Shots against (avg) S A 16.5 14.7 11.9
4.1 4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.2 5 4.1
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Real Salt Lake have the fewest matches under the total-line (8) in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals (23) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Vancouver Whitecaps have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Vancouver Whitecaps have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 St. Louis City 30 15 5 10 56 38 15 10 2 3 37 14 15 5 3 7 19 24 18 50
2 Seattle Sounders 30 12 9 9 37 31 15 6 5 4 17 10 15 6 4 5 20 21 6 45
3 Los Angeles FC 29 12 8 9 44 34 15 9 3 3 31 15 14 3 5 6 13 19 10 44
4 Houston Dynamo 29 12 7 10 41 33 15 10 3 2 31 10 14 2 4 8 10 23 8 43
5 Vancouver Whitecaps 28 11 8 9 46 41 14 7 4 3 29 16 14 4 4 6 17 25 5 41
6 Real Salt Lake 29 11 7 11 40 44 15 5 4 6 21 23 14 6 3 5 19 21 -4 40
7 SJ Earthquakes 30 10 10 10 35 39 15 8 5 2 23 14 15 2 5 8 12 25 -4 40
8 Portland Timbers 30 10 9 11 38 46 15 8 3 4 25 17 15 2 6 7 13 29 -8 39
9 Dallas 28 10 8 10 33 32 14 7 4 3 20 13 14 3 4 7 13 19 1 38
10 Minnesota United 29 9 10 10 37 38 14 3 8 3 17 15 15 6 2 7 20 23 -1 37
11 Sporting KC 30 9 8 13 39 43 15 7 2 6 25 19 15 2 6 7 14 24 -4 35
12 Austin 29 9 7 13 40 46 14 6 3 5 20 15 15 3 4 8 20 31 -6 34
13 LA Galaxy 28 8 9 11 39 48 14 6 4 4 25 20 14 2 5 7 14 28 -9 33
14 Colorado Rapids 28 4 10 14 19 42 14 2 7 5 10 13 14 2 3 9 9 29 -23 22

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 St. Louis City 30 15 5 10 56 38 15 10 2 3 37 14 15 5 3 7 19 24 18 50
2 Seattle Sounders 30 12 9 9 37 31 15 6 5 4 17 10 15 6 4 5 20 21 6 45
3 Los Angeles FC 29 12 8 9 44 34 15 9 3 3 31 15 14 3 5 6 13 19 10 44
4 Houston Dynamo 29 12 7 10 41 33 15 10 3 2 31 10 14 2 4 8 10 23 8 43
5 Vancouver Whitecaps 28 11 8 9 46 41 14 7 4 3 29 16 14 4 4 6 17 25 5 41
6 Real Salt Lake 29 11 7 11 40 44 15 5 4 6 21 23 14 6 3 5 19 21 -4 40
7 SJ Earthquakes 30 10 10 10 35 39 15 8 5 2 23 14 15 2 5 8 12 25 -4 40
8 Portland Timbers 30 10 9 11 38 46 15 8 3 4 25 17 15 2 6 7 13 29 -8 39
9 Dallas 28 10 8 10 33 32 14 7 4 3 20 13 14 3 4 7 13 19 1 38
10 Minnesota United 29 9 10 10 37 38 14 3 8 3 17 15 15 6 2 7 20 23 -1 37
11 Sporting KC 30 9 8 13 39 43 15 7 2 6 25 19 15 2 6 7 14 24 -4 35
12 Austin 29 9 7 13 40 46 14 6 3 5 20 15 15 3 4 8 20 31 -6 34
13 LA Galaxy 28 8 9 11 39 48 14 6 4 4 25 20 14 2 5 7 14 28 -9 33
14 Colorado Rapids 28 4 10 14 19 42 14 2 7 5 10 13 14 2 3 9 9 29 -23 22

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