This promises to be an action-packed encounter for Portland Timbers at Providence Park when the Leagues Cup tournament arrives in town and SJ Earthquakes with it. Read all about the Group Stage match here!
2 - 4 - 5 with 12-23. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for SJ Earthquakes when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. SJ Earthquakes play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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!
Portland Timbers form and stats
A nice win for Portland last time playing, versus Columbus Crew. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-2 with Asprilla (2) and Blanco scoring for the victors. The victory against Columbus Crew came after Blanco's winning goal. The Portland Timbers manager Savarese was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 62nd minute. The forward Asprilla outdid all the other footballers in that game and was awarded a match rating of 8.15 out of 10. Asprilla scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Before that, Portland played out a Major League Soccer draw 0-0 when visiting Colorado Rapids.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Portland Timbers handle that role? We have found 25 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 14 wins, 7 draws and 4 defeats.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Tigres UANL are coming to town in four days.
SJ Earthquakes form and stats
Impressive finishing from Espinoza and Trauco secured the home win 2-0 against Seattle Sounders in their previous game. Espinoza has scored for the away team three fixtures in a row. The flair! The attacker Espinoza got a match rating of 8.12 in that game. Espinoza scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and had 37 successful passes (of 40 total).
A 1-1 draw at Los Angeles FC's stadium before that.Earthquakes are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 5 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 11 matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six Portland Timbers victories, three draws and one SJ Earthquakes win. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Espinoza 11 goals |  J. Ebobisse 7 goals |   F. Boli 6 goals |
Portland Timbers missing players
SJ Earthquakes missing players
| Portland Timbers | SJ Earthquakes | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 6 | Won | W | 1 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 7 | 8 | ||
| 32 | 23 | Scored | S | 12 | 30 | ||
| 38 | 17 | Conceded | C | 23 | 32 | ||
| 80% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 60% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 20% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 64% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 20% | ||
| 3.9 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 5.3 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 5.1 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 12.4 | 14.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 11.6 | ||
| 4.3 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 3.2 | ||
| 30% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 37% | ||
| 12.6 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.6 | 13.4 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | SJ Earthquakes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Portland Timbers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Tigres UANL | 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 | SJ Earthquakes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Portland Timbers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Tigres UANL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
