Soccer betting preview: St. Louis City welcomes Seattle Sounders in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 22.Oct
Match begins: 01:00 (UTC)
Venue: CityPark (22500 seats)

This could be a great game, with St. Louis City positioned 1st and Seattle Sounders in 3rd. Here's our match guide!

Insights:
  • St. Louis City have the most scored goals (62) in Major League Soccer
  • Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals (32) in Major League Soccer

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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St. Louis City form and stats

35 points is a decent return from 16 Major League Soccer games here at CityPark for St. Louis City. The data says 11 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses.

No payout for St. Louis City in their previous match, an away game at Vancouver Whitecaps that ended in defeat 0-3. The first setback in the shape of a loss after going undefeated in five league rounds. Markanich, defender, was given a rating of 7.01/10 in that game, top of the team. Markanich hit one key pass and won 5 of 6 duels.

Before that game, the 4-1 home victory against Sporting KC.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Louis have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 6 matches with the results: Won 5, drawn 1 and lost 0.

Sports bettors should know that 8 of the latest 10 league matches from these players have had at least one goal from each side.

St. Louis City are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at CityPark in their league games, having scored an impressive 41 goals in 16 matches. Louis are not conceding a lot of goals here at CityPark in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 15 from 16 matches.

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Seattle Sounders form and stats

6-5-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Seattle Sounders in their Major League Soccer matches away.

Seattle Sounders's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Vancouver Whitecaps that finished 0-0.

A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs LA Galaxy.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 16 similar matches played by Seattle Sounders in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Seattle Sounders, 2 draws and 8 defeats.

Sounders find the net regularly in their away games. 20 goals from 16 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Seattle Sounders have seen the ball go into their own net 21 times on the road. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Seattle Sounders - St. Louis City 3-0 was the story when these two participants previously played each other, also in this season.

Top Goalscorers

Seattle SoundersJ. Morris
J. Morris
11 goals
St. Louis CityJ. De Mello
J. De Mello
10 goals
LouisN. Gioacchini
N. Gioacchini
10 goals

St. Louis City missing players

Seattle Sounders missing players

St. Louis City Seattle Sounders
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
33 16 2 Played P 2 16 33
17 11 1 Won W 1 6 13
5 2 1 Drew D 0 5 11
11 3 0 Lost L 1 5 9
62 41 3 Scored S 1 20 39
43 15 0 Conceded C 1 21 32
97% 94% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 82%
88% 88% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 69% 61%
73% 75% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 39%
33% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 18%
12% 19% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 12%
58% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 56% 42%
24% 38% 100% Clean Sheets C S 50% 19% 39%
21% 12% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 38% 36%
 
4.8 5.4 6 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4.4 5.8
5.5 5 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.7 4.7
2.4 2.1 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.5 1.6
4 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
13.5 15.9 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 10.8 12.3
5.1 6.1 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.2 3.7
37% 42% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 39% 32%
 
13 12.4 15 Shots against (avg) S A 9 12.6 10.2
5.1 4.6 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 3.7 3.2
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Seattle Sounders have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals (32) in Major League Soccer
  • Seattle Sounders have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • St. Louis City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • St. Louis City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • St. Louis City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Seattle Sounders have scored away.
  • St. Louis City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (9) in Major League Soccer
  • St. Louis City have the most scored goals (41) at home in Major League Soccer
  • St. Louis City have the most scored goals (62) in Major League Soccer
  • St. Louis City have the most scored goals in the second half (36) in Major League Soccer
  • St. Louis City have the the best goal difference (+19) in Major League Soccer
  • St. Louis City have the the best goal difference (+26) at home in Major League Soccer

  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 33 17 5 11 62 43 16 11 2 3 41 15 17 6 3 8 21 28 19 56
2 Los Angeles FC 33 14 9 10 53 38 17 10 3 4 36 17 16 4 6 6 17 21 15 51
3 Seattle Sounders 33 13 11 9 39 32 17 7 6 4 19 11 16 6 5 5 20 21 7 50
4 Houston Dynamo 33 13 9 11 48 37 17 11 4 2 36 11 16 2 5 9 12 26 11 48
5 Real Salt Lake 33 13 8 12 47 50 17 6 4 7 25 27 16 7 4 5 22 23 -3 47
6 Vancouver Whitecaps 33 12 11 10 54 47 16 8 5 3 34 18 17 4 6 7 20 29 7 47
7 Portland Timbers 33 11 10 12 45 55 16 9 3 4 28 19 17 2 7 8 17 36 -10 43
8 Dallas 33 10 13 10 37 36 17 7 7 3 23 16 16 3 6 7 14 20 1 43
9 SJ Earthquakes 33 10 13 10 38 42 16 8 6 2 24 15 17 2 7 8 14 27 -4 43
10 Sporting KC 33 11 8 14 45 50 16 8 2 6 27 20 17 3 6 8 18 30 -5 41
11 Minnesota United 33 10 11 12 45 48 17 4 9 4 24 20 16 6 2 8 21 28 -3 41
12 Austin 33 10 8 15 48 54 17 7 4 6 28 22 16 3 4 9 20 32 -6 38
13 LA Galaxy 33 8 12 13 50 63 16 6 6 4 30 25 17 2 6 9 20 38 -13 36
14 Colorado Rapids 33 5 12 16 26 53 16 3 8 5 13 15 17 2 4 11 13 38 -27 27

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Major League Soccer (often known simply as MLS) is the top level of football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. MLS has 24 teams divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. Each team play 34 fixtures to decide a league table champion. The top fourteen teams then compete in playoff to crown a MLS Cup champion.