Major League Soccer match prediction: Little separates LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders in quality

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Mon 28.September
Match begins: 02:30 (UTC)
Venue: Dignity Health Sports Park (27000 seats)

LA Galaxy will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 6 points behind Seattle Sounders.

LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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LA Galaxy form and stats

2-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for LA Galaxy, who have the fewest scored goals (16) in Major League Soccer, so far this season.

Lletget S. was the last player to score a league goal for Galaxy and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as LA Galaxy haven't scored in 187 minutes.

The Galaxy crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to Colorado Rapids here at Dignity Health Sports Park in a Major League Soccer match. A 0-0 draw away before that, with SJ Earthquakes the opponent.

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 Galaxy have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won two, drawn zero and lost two.

The Galaxy fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 8 in 6 matches. LA Galaxy's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 8 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Seattle Sounders form and stats

Things could have gone better for Seattle Sounders in their Major League Soccer away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.

Seattle Sounders won their last game, 3-0 versus Los Angeles FC played at home. That result followed a home victory 7-1 versus SJ Earthquakes.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Seattle Sounders in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Sounders, one draw and three defeats.

Seattle Sounders have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 6 goals from 3 away matches. As opposed to that, Sounders have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Galaxy victories, four draws and four Seattle Sounders wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Seattle SoundersR. Ruidíaz Misitich
R. Ruidíaz Misitich
8 goals
LA GalaxyC. Pavón
C. Pavón
6 goals
GalaxyS. Lletget
S. Lletget
4 goals

LA Galaxy missing players

Seattle Sounders missing players

LA Galaxy Seattle Sounders
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 6 0 Played P 1 3 12
4 2 0 Won W 1 1 6
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 3
4 3 0 Lost L 0 1 3
16 8 0 Scored S 3 6 27
17 8 0 Conceded C 0 4 14
91% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
82% 83% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 92%
45% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 83%
27% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 33%
27% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
55% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 67%
27% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 33% 33%
27% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 8%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.7 1.5
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
133 81 0 Total Shots T S 10 23 144
54 31 0 Shots on Target S O 5 9 62
30% 26% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 67% 44%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • All of Seattle Sounders's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • LA Galaxy has the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Major League Soccer
  • LA Galaxy has the fewest scored goals (16) in Major League Soccer
  • LA Galaxy has the most matches under the total-line (7) in Major League Soccer
  • LA Galaxy have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • LA Galaxy haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Seattle Sounders has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Major League Soccer
  • Seattle Sounders has the fewest conceded goals (4) away in Major League Soccer
  • Seattle Sounders has the most scored goals (26) in Major League Soccer
  • Seattle Sounders has the the best goal difference (+16) in Major League Soccer
  • Seattle Sounders have scored in all their away matches so far.

  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 11 6 3 2 26 10 8 5 2 1 20 6 3 1 1 1 6 4 16 21
2 Sporting KC 12 6 2 4 23 18 7 3 1 3 14 13 5 3 1 1 9 5 5 20
3 Dallas 11 5 4 2 19 12 7 4 2 1 13 6 4 1 2 1 6 6 7 19
4 Minnesota United 12 5 3 4 23 19 3 2 0 1 8 4 9 3 3 3 15 15 4 18
5 Portland Timbers 12 5 3 4 25 24 6 2 1 3 10 14 6 3 2 1 15 10 1 18
6 Colorado Rapids 12 4 4 4 20 20 5 1 3 1 7 9 7 3 1 3 13 11 0 16
7 Vancouver Whitecaps 12 5 0 7 17 24 5 2 0 3 12 14 7 3 0 4 5 10 -7 15
8 LA Galaxy 11 4 3 4 16 17 6 2 1 3 8 8 5 2 2 1 8 9 -1 15
9 Los Angeles FC 12 4 3 5 25 27 8 4 3 1 24 15 4 0 0 4 1 12 -2 15
10 Houston Dynamo 12 3 6 3 20 19 5 2 3 0 8 4 7 1 3 3 12 15 1 15
11 Real Salt Lake 12 3 5 4 17 21 8 2 3 3 9 12 4 1 2 1 8 9 -4 14
12 SJ Earthquakes 12 2 5 5 17 33 6 0 4 2 7 15 6 2 1 3 10 18 -16 11

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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.