Seattle Sounders have journeyed here for an appealing battle versus the hosts LA Galaxy. Get smart on the fixture with this in-depth Major League Soccer preview!
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Major League Soccer
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
LA Galaxy form and stats
When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, LA Galaxy have managed 0 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 1 games.
Galaxy shared the glory with Portland Timbers in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Midfielder Brugman was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.64 (out of ten) in that game. Brugman hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 71 successful passes (of 80 total).
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Vancouver Whitecaps.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does LA Galaxy 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 9 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the LA Galaxy at home in the league. 1 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Seattle Sounders form and stats
Things could have gone better for Seattle Sounders in their Major League Soccer away matches, but 3 points from 2 games is all right.
Two travels in a row for Seattle Sounders, whose manager Schmetzer could celebrate last time after the win against Sporting KC. Morris certainly enjoyed Sounders's last game versus Sporting KC, appearing multiple times in the match report with four goals and the 4-1 victory. Attacker Morris got a player rating of 9.9 in the game. "Man of the match" Morris scored four goals, hit four key passes and had 19 successful passes (of 21 total).
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Los Angeles FC.We have checked recent matches where Seattle Sounders have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 15 games were 3 victories, 5 draws and 7 defeats.
Seattle Sounders have the goal stats of 4-2 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Seattle Sounders have avoided a loss in the last 9 games (5-4-0) versus Galaxy.One of the stars has been Ruidíaz with 8 goals scored against LA Galaxy in these 10 matches.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Morris 7 goals |  H. Araujo dos Santos 2 goals |   D. Joveljić 1 goals |
LA Galaxy missing players
Seattle Sounders missing players
| LA Galaxy | Seattle Sounders | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 60% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 50% | 20% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 20% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 60% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 7.2 | 13 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3 | 4.6 |
| 4.2 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4 | 4.4 |
| 2.2 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.5 | 20 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 12.5 | 11.8 |
| 4.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| 11% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 50% | 40% |
| 15.8 | 12 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 8 | 6.6 |
| 4.5 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.5 | 1.8 |
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals (2) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have the most clean sheets (3) in Major League Soccer
| LA Galaxy | Last season | Seattle Sounders | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 36 | 18 | Played | P | 17 | 34 | ||
| 15 | 9 | Won | W | 3 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Lost | L | 12 | 17 | ||
| 61 | 36 | Scored | S | 18 | 47 | ||
| 54 | 25 | Conceded | C | 27 | 46 | ||
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 75% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 65% | 74% | ||
| 58% | 61% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 47% | 59% | ||
| 47% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 21% | ||
| 31% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 12% | ||
| 61% | 61% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 56% | ||
| 22% | 28% | Clean Sheets | C S | 12% | 18% | ||
| 19% | 11% | Failed to Score | F T | 35% | 26% | ||
| 5.6 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.9 | ||
| 4 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.1 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.9 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 13.9 | 14.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 12.2 | ||
| 4.9 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.1 | ||
| 34% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 34% | ||
| 12 | 11.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.6 | 12.8 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 4.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Saint Louis City | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 15 |
| 2 | Seattle Sounders | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 3 | Los Angeles FC | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 10 |
| 4 | Minnesota United | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Dallas | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Austin | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 7 |
| 7 | SJ Earthquakes | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 8 | Houston Dynamo | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -1 | 6 |
| 9 | Portland Timbers | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -5 | 4 |
| 10 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
| 11 | LA Galaxy | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
| 12 | Real Salt Lake | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -6 | 3 |
| 13 | Sporting KC | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 2 |
| 14 | Colorado Rapids | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -6 | 2 |
