Colorado Rapids are keen to increase their points at their own arena in this soon-to-be-played fixture against SJ Earthquakes.
- SJ Earthquakes have the most conceded goals (61) in Major League Soccer
These teams have little in common geographically as SJ Earthquakes have to travel 2000 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
It's no vacation for neither Colorado Rapids nor SJ Earthquakes as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Colorado Rapids form and stats
The complete Major League Soccer stats at home this season for Colorado Rapids are 8-5-2 (wins-draws-losses). When Colorado Rapids hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Sporting KC, Vancouver Whitecaps, Colorado Rapids and Houston Dynamo), they have won 2 of 3 matches!
Colorado Rapids's last game was hosting Vancouver Whitecaps (placed 11th) and winning 3-1. A big relief, as that was the first league win after failing to win six games in a row. Midfielder Gutiérrez was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.22 (out of ten) in that game. Gutiérrez hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 31 successful passes (of 36 total).
0-0 away at DC United before that.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Colorado matches with similar probabilities have ended with 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats (from 4 games).
Observe: 8 of the most recent 10 league matches from this football club have had at least one goal from each side.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Colorado Rapids as they are travelling to their away game against LA Galaxy in the Major League Soccer. That match is three days after this one.
The Colorado Rapids fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 26 goals in 15 league matches. Colorado have only conceded 14 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. Colorado Rapids has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.
SJ Earthquakes form and stats
SJ Earthquakes have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Major League Soccer, after 1-4-10 (15 played). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in SJ Earthquakes's last three away games as they have all been lost.
There might be some fixture complaints from Earthquakes as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous game, 0-6 against Cincinnati. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Cincinnati was particularly ugly (0-6). The humiliation is still top of mind. Midfielder Espinoza was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.21. Espinoza hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 20 successful passes (of 23 total).
Before that, SJ Earthquakes secured a home win against Vancouver Whitecaps with the score 2-0.Looking at the earlier recent performances of SJ Earthquakes when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 11 matches with the visitors losing 7 times, drawing 1 and winning 3 games.
Goal hungry football fans should note that 10 of this side's 13 most recent league games have ended with at least three goals.
A new game in only three days for SJ Earthquakes, the Major League Soccer home match versus Dallas. Busy days.
Earthquakes are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 18 away goals from 15 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that SJ Earthquakes concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own. When SJ Earthquakes is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Sporting KC, Vancouver Whitecaps, Houston Dynamo and Earthquakes.
Head 2 Head
Colorado Rapids and SJ Earthquakes have played each other before this season: SJ Earthquakes - Colorado Rapids 1-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Colorado Rapids four wins, three draws and SJ Earthquakes three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Ebobisse 15 goals |   D. Rubio Kostner 13 goals |
Colorado Rapids missing players
SJ Earthquakes missing players
| Colorado Rapids | SJ Earthquakes | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 30 | 15 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 15 | 29 |
| 9 | 8 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 12 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 10 | 13 |
| 41 | 26 | 6 | Scored | S | 6 | 18 | 44 |
| 51 | 14 | 2 | Conceded | C | 8 | 38 | 61 |
| 93% | 93% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 97% |
| 87% | 87% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | 83% |
| 53% | 33% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 69% |
| 33% | 27% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 53% | 52% |
| 17% | 13% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 47% | 34% |
| 60% | 53% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 53% | 66% |
| 27% | 47% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 7% | 10% |
| 20% | 7% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 47% | 28% |
| 5.2 | 5.1 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.6 | 5.6 |
| 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.3 | 5.2 | 4.9 |
| 2.7 | 2.5 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13.2 | 14.7 | 14.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15 | 11.1 | 13 |
| 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
| 33% | 36% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 31% | 34% |
| 12.7 | 11.7 | 10.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 16.5 | 14.5 |
| 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 6.9 | 6 |
- SJ Earthquakes have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- SJ Earthquakes have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes have the most conceded goals (38) away in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes have the most conceded goals (61) in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes have the most conceded goals in the second half (36) in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes 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 | Los Angeles FC | 30 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 60 | 34 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 21 | 26 | 60 |
| 2 | Austin | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 60 | 45 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 24 | 15 | 51 |
| 3 | Dallas | 31 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 45 | 34 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 49 |
| 4 | Nashville SC | 31 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 49 | 38 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 29 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 46 |
| 5 | Portland Timbers | 31 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 50 | 47 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 30 | 3 | 45 |
| 6 | Minnesota United | 30 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 44 | 44 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 20 | 25 | 0 | 44 |
| 7 | Real Salt Lake | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 38 | 38 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 26 | 0 | 43 |
| 8 | LA Galaxy | 29 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 47 | 43 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 4 | 40 |
| 9 | Seattle Sounders | 30 | 12 | 3 | 15 | 43 | 40 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 17 | 24 | 3 | 39 |
| 10 | Colorado Rapids | 30 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 41 | 51 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 37 | -10 | 36 |
| 11 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 30 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 33 | 54 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 35 | -21 | 34 |
| 12 | Sporting KC | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 33 | 51 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 35 | -18 | 31 |
| 13 | Houston Dynamo | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 36 | 48 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 16 | 30 | -12 | 30 |
| 14 | SJ Earthquakes | 29 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 44 | 61 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 23 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 38 | -17 | 30 |
