Early betting action imply Dallas advantage when welcoming Vancouver Whitecaps

Dallas's stadium, Toyota 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; 2 wins, 6 draws and 15 losses from 23 matches. They have scored 16 goals in these games and conceded 46.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Vancouver Whitecaps, who are travelling more than 3500 kilometers to play this game.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Major League Soccer. That game, against Seattle Sounders, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Vancouver Whitecaps.

Dallas form and stats

Dallas have performed here at Toyota Stadium this season with 5 wins from 7 Major League Soccer matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 1.

A strong away win for Dallas against Orlando City the last match, as Arriola (2) and Jara were on target. Arriola has scored in four games in a row. Skilful! The striker Arriola outshone all teammates in that fixture and managed a match rating of 8.64 out of 10. Arriola scored two goals, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Minnesota United (1-2).

Dallas can score goals in their home matches. After 7 league matches they have found the net 15 times. Dallas have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats

Vancouver Whitecaps have only collected 3 points from their away games in the Major League Soccer, after 1-0-7 (8 played).

Two away games in a row for Vancouver Whitecaps, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-4 versus Seattle Sounders. Vancouver lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. The attacker Caicedo got a match rating of 7.15 in that game. Caicedo hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 24 successful passes (of 25 total).

A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Real Salt Lake.

A quick return to home after this game, as Vancouver Whitecaps are hosting York9 in the Championship only four days away.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps as they have only managed to score 5 times from 8 away games in the league. For Vancouver, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. Vancouver Whitecaps has visited these top teams two times, and 2 of 2 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

This isn't the first time these sides face each other this season, as the history books show this recent game: Vancouver Whitecaps - Dallas 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dallas two wins, four draws and Vancouver Whitecaps four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

J. Ferreira 9 goals

P. Arriola 7 goals

L. Cavallini 4 goals

Dallas missing players

Vancouver Whitecaps missing players