Major League Soccer forecast and preview: Colorado Rapids modest favoured to beat Real Salt Lake

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 21.May
Match begins: 01:30 (UTC)
Venue: Dick's Sporting Goods Park Field 20

Colorado Rapids are unlocking their away locker room to Real Salt Lake for yet another important game after their 0-4 result vs Atlanta United.

Insights:
  • Colorado Rapids have the fewest points (3) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Major League Soccer

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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 Colorado and Real Salt Lake.

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Colorado Rapids form and stats

The story so far in the Major League Soccer for Colorado Rapids at their home stadium (Dick's Sporting Goods Park Field 20) is 0 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Colorado Rapids are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-4 away versus Atlanta United. Colorado Rapids were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. Yarbrough had a busy but productive day in the Atlanta United match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. Midfield player Gersbach got a match rating of 6.82 in that game, the max score being 10. Gersbach dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Ahead of that match, Colorado lost 1-2 at home to Philadelphia Union.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Colorado Rapids handle that role? We have found 16 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 7 wins, 8 draws and 1 defeat.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Real Salt Lake are coming to town in four days.

Colorado aren't scoring a lot here at Dick's Sporting Goods Park Field 20 in the league, with only {3 goals} from 5 games.

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Real Salt Lake form and stats

As the visiting team in Major League Soccer matches, Real Salt Lake have produced an overall stat of 1-1-3 so far.

Gómez was the last player to score for the away team. Real Salt Lake haven't scored a league goal in the last 370 minutes.

There were no winners in Real Salt Lake's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Portland Timbers (placed 6th). Goalkeeper MacMath got the top player rating of the team with 8.04/10. MacMath topped it up with a clean sheet.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-3 defeat against Los Angeles FC.

We have checked recent matches where Real Salt Lake have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 19 games were 4 victories, 5 draws and 10 defeats.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The US Open Cup trip to Colorado Rapids.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Salt as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. Real Salt Lake struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 9 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Head to head totals (for the previous ten meetings): Colorado Rapids won two games, two matches ended with a draw and Real Salt Lake managed six wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / two.

Top Goalscorers

Real Salt LakeJ. Savarino Quintero
J. Savarino Quintero
3 goals
ColoradoM. Barrios Puerta
M. Barrios Puerta
2 goals
Colorado RapidsK. Cabral
K. Cabral
2 goals

Colorado Rapids missing players

Real Salt Lake missing players

Colorado Rapids Real Salt Lake
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 5 1 Played P 0 5 12
2 0 0 Won W 0 1 3
6 3 1 Drew D 0 1 3
5 2 0 Lost L 0 3 6
10 3 0 Scored S 0 3 10
18 5 0 Conceded C 0 9 20
77% 60% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 80% 75%
62% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 80% 75%
46% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 60% 67%
31% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
46% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 42%
31% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 25%
46% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 60% 58%
 
4.2 4.6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 5 5.6
6 5 7 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.6 3.6
2.6 2.6 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.6 2.1
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.4 14.2 13 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10.8 14.6
4.4 5.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5 5.8
18% 10% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 12% 14%
 
15.2 11.4 16 Shots against (avg) S A 0 15 13.3
4.9 4.2 11 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 5.4 4.9
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Colorado Rapids have the fewest points (3) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Colorado Rapids have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Colorado Rapids have yet to win a game at home.
  • Real Salt Lake have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Real Salt Lake have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) 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 Seattle Sounders 13 7 2 4 20 11 7 4 1 2 12 4 6 3 1 2 8 7 9 23
2 Los Angeles FC 11 6 4 1 21 9 5 4 1 0 13 4 6 2 3 1 8 5 12 22
3 Dallas 12 6 3 3 15 12 6 4 1 1 10 6 6 2 2 2 5 6 3 21
4 Saint Louis City 11 6 1 4 22 13 5 3 0 2 12 5 6 3 1 2 10 8 9 19
5 SJ Earthquakes 12 5 3 4 16 16 6 5 1 0 10 3 6 0 2 4 6 13 0 18
6 Portland Timbers 13 4 4 5 18 19 6 3 2 1 11 6 7 1 2 4 7 13 -1 16
7 Minnesota United 12 4 3 5 11 14 5 1 3 1 4 4 7 3 0 4 7 10 -3 15
8 Vancouver Whitecaps 12 3 5 4 16 14 6 3 2 1 11 5 6 0 3 3 5 9 2 14
9 Houston Dynamo 11 4 2 5 10 10 6 4 1 1 7 1 5 0 1 4 3 9 0 14
10 Austin 12 3 4 5 12 18 6 1 3 2 6 7 6 2 1 3 6 11 -6 13
11 Colorado Rapids 13 2 6 5 10 18 5 0 3 2 3 5 8 2 3 3 7 13 -8 12
12 Real Salt Lake 12 3 3 6 10 20 7 2 2 3 7 11 5 1 1 3 3 9 -10 12
13 Sporting KC 13 2 4 7 9 17 5 1 1 3 4 7 8 1 3 4 5 10 -8 10
14 LA Galaxy 12 2 3 7 10 20 6 2 1 3 9 10 6 0 2 4 1 10 -10 9

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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.