A total of eleven game weeks are finished and Houston Dynamo are 5 points on top of Seattle Sounders. What happens today?
- Houston Dynamo have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest clean sheets (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 2800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Houston Dynamo form and stats
3 victories, 3 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Houston Dynamo have to build on here at Reliant Stadium in the Major League Soccer.
Houston's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Nashville SC (placed 9th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Midfielder Carrasquilla was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.25 (out of ten) in that game. Carrasquilla scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 33 successful passes (of 37 total).
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 Houston Dynamo have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 16 matches with the results: Won 6, drawn 3 and lost 7.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Houston as they are travelling to their away game against LA Galaxy in the Major League Soccer. That match is four days after this one.
The Houston Dynamo fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 7 matches.
Seattle Sounders form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Major League Soccer travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Seattle Sounders have lost on their last two travels.
Sounders won their last game, 3-1 versus Minnesota United played at home. Roldán got a match rating of 8.85 in that game, top player of the team. Roldán scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Seattle Sounders in our archives, and the results are: 7 wins for Seattle Sounders, 2 draws and 6 defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Seattle Sounders manager Schmetzer as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Colorado Rapids.
The visiting Sounders have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 6 goals from 5 games. Seattle Sounders's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 9 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - zero - eight (Houston Dynamo wins - draws - Seattle Sounders wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Quintero Villalba 5 goals |  C. Ferreira Vidal 4 goals |  F. Picault 2 goals |
Houston Dynamo missing players
Seattle Sounders missing players
| Houston Dynamo | Seattle Sounders | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 14 | 10 | 6 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 13 | 7 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 14 |
| 82% | 71% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 67% |
| 45% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 44% |
| 18% | 14% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 33% |
| 9% | 14% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 22% |
| 55% | 57% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 60% | 56% |
| 27% | 43% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 36% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 40% | 44% |
| 3.8 | 4.7 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3.4 | 4.4 |
| 7.2 | 7.3 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 7 | 6.2 |
| 2.9 | 2.7 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.6 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.8 | 10.9 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 9.6 | 11.3 |
| 3.3 | 3.6 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5 | 4.6 |
| 39% | 40% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 24% | 29% |
| 13.7 | 12.4 | 17 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 18.8 | 15.3 |
| 4.3 | 3.4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.6 | 4.6 |
- Houston Dynamo have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Seattle Sounders have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Seattle Sounders have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Seattle Sounders haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 23 |
| 2 | Dallas | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 22 |
| 3 | Austin | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| 4 | LA Galaxy | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 19 |
| 5 | Real Salt Lake | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -4 | 19 |
| 6 | Houston Dynamo | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| 7 | Colorado Rapids | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 15 |
| 8 | Portland Timbers | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 15 |
| 9 | Nashville SC | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 15 |
| 10 | Minnesota United | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
| 11 | Seattle Sounders | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -2 | 10 |
| 12 | SJ Earthquakes | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -7 | 10 |
| 13 | Sporting KC | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 19 | -13 | 9 |
| 14 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 14 | -10 | 8 |
