New England vs Real Salt Lake: Soccer betting preview

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Date: Sat 21.September
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Gillette Stadium (68756 seats)

New England will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today's opponents. The home side are currently 6 points behind Real Salt Lake.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

This pitch has artificial turf, which is not Real Salt Lake's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artificial turf Real Salt Lake have performed like this: Played eight matches resulting in 2 wins, 0 draws and 6 defeats with the goal stats 7-13 (scored/conceded). Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 3800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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New England form and stats

New England have collected 24 points from their Major League Soccer home games so far after 7-3-5.

New England manager B. Arena and his team return home after a 3-3 draw away versus Orlando City (placed 10th) in the Major League Soccer. Prior to that, an away loss at New York City.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier New England matches with similar probabilities have ended with 5 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats (from six games).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for New England as they are travelling to their away game against Portland Timbers in the Major League Soccer. That match is four days after this one.

The New England fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 21 in 15 matches. New England's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 19 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Real Salt Lake form and stats

Real Salt Lake have only collected 12 points from their away games in the Major League Soccer, after 3-3-9 (15 played). Real Salt Lake seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Real Salt Lake play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-3 to Minnesota United. Before that, Real Salt Lake secured a home win against SJ Earthquakes with the score 1-0.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Real Salt Lake when being an outsider away as they are today, we find nine matches with the visitors losing 4 times, drawing 3 and winning 2 games.

A quick return to home after this game, as Real Salt Lake are hosting LA Galaxy in the Major League Soccer only four days away.

The attacking power of Real Salt Lake when travelling is not overwhelming with 14 goals scored from 15 league matches away. In the opposite end, Real Salt Lake have conceded 26 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 2 - 2 - 6 (New England wins - draws - Real Salt Lake wins). As for goals, 8 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

A. Rusnák
10 goals / 3 assists
Carles Gil
9 goals / 12 assists
S. Johnson
9 goals

New England missing players

Real Salt Lake missing players

New England Real Salt Lake
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs mid Away Total
30 15 3 Played P 3 15 30
10 7 0 Won W 0 3 14
10 3 2 Drew D 1 3 4
10 5 1 Lost L 2 9 12
45 21 2 Scored S 1 14 42
52 19 4 Conceded C 10 26 38
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 97%
90% 93% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 77%
57% 47% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 60% 57%
33% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 27% 23%
23% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 13% 10%
63% 53% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 53% 47%
13% 13% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 13% 33%
27% 33% 33% Failed to Score F T 67% 40% 23%
 
4.2 5.2 5.3 Corners For (avg) C F 1 2.9 3.5
5.3 5.1 5.3 Corners Against (avg) C A 5 6.6 6
2.2 1.9 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 2 2.1
6 1 0 Red Cards R C 2 3 5
Key stats This season:
  • New England have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • New England haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Real Salt Lake have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

New England
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All Home Away
10-08-19 MLS Seattle Sounders 3 - 3 New England
17-08-19 MLS New York RB 1 - 1 New England
24-08-19 MLS New England 2 - 1 Chicago Fire
31-08-19 MLS New England 1 - 1 Toronto
07-09-19 MLS New York City 2 - 1 New England
14-09-19 MLS Orlando City 3 - 3 New England
21-09-19 MLS New England 23:30 Real Salt Lake
26-09-19 MLS Portland Timbers 02:30 New England
29-09-19 MLS New England 21:00 New York City
06-10-19 MLS Atlanta United 20:00 New England
Real Salt Lake
All US Open Cup Mobile Mini Sun Cup Major League Soccer Club Friendlies
All Home Away
15-08-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 3 - 0 Seattle Sounders
18-08-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 0 - 2 Los Angeles FC
25-08-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 2 - 0 Colorado Rapids
01-09-19 MLS Portland Timbers 1 - 0 Real Salt Lake
12-09-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 1 - 0 SJ Earthquakes
15-09-19 MLS Minnesota United 3 - 1 Real Salt Lake
21-09-19 MLS New England 23:30 Real Salt Lake
26-09-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 01:30 LA Galaxy
29-09-19 MLS Real Salt Lake 23:30 Houston Dynamo
06-10-19 MLS Vancouver Whitecaps 20:00 Real Salt Lake

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 New York City 30 16 9 5 56 37 16 10 5 1 30 15 14 6 4 4 26 22 19 57
2 Philadelphia Union 30 15 7 8 55 43 16 10 4 2 35 17 14 5 3 6 20 26 12 52
3 Atlanta United 30 16 3 11 50 36 15 10 3 2 30 12 15 6 0 9 20 24 14 51
4 Toronto 31 12 9 10 53 49 16 8 4 4 33 26 15 4 5 6 20 23 4 45
5 DC United 31 12 9 10 40 38 15 6 5 4 23 22 16 6 4 6 17 16 2 45
6 New York RB 30 12 5 13 49 48 15 8 2 5 27 18 15 4 3 8 22 30 1 41
7 New England 30 10 10 10 45 52 15 7 3 5 21 19 15 3 7 5 24 33 -7 40
8 Chicago Fire 31 9 10 12 48 43 16 8 6 2 35 16 15 1 4 10 13 27 5 37
9 Montreal Impact 31 11 4 16 42 57 15 7 2 6 19 21 16 4 2 10 23 36 -15 37
10 Orlando City 31 9 9 13 40 44 16 6 3 7 24 24 15 3 6 6 16 20 -4 36
11 Columbus Crew 31 9 7 15 36 45 16 5 5 6 19 22 15 4 2 9 17 23 -9 34
12 Cincinnati 31 6 3 22 30 74 15 3 1 11 14 35 16 3 2 11 16 39 -44 21

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