Playing at home feels comfortable and good for Portland Timbers, but Dallas are fully determined and capable to get all three points. What happens today?
- Portland Timbers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Dallas have the most points from losing position (10) in Major League Soccer
Portland Timbers's stadium, Providence Park, has a artifical turf surface. Dallas have grass 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 Dallas when playing on artifical turf; 0 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses from eight matches. They have scored {4 goals} in these games and conceded 9.
Dallas have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 3200 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Both sides have had plenty of rest since their previous competitive action. Let's look for an in-your-face game!
Portland Timbers form and stats
3 victories, 2 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Portland Timbers have to build on here at Providence Park in the Major League Soccer. When Portland Timbers hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Saint Louis City, Los Angeles FC and Seattle Sounders), they have won 1 of 2 matches!
The home team returns to Providence Park after drawing with Seattle Sounders (placed 2nd) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0. Midfield player Paredes got a match rating of 7.65 in that game, the max score being 10. Paredes hit three key passes and had 28 successful passes (of 35 total).
Prior to that, an away loss at Sporting KC.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Portland Timbers handle that role? We have found 23 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 13 wins, 6 draws and 4 defeats.
The Portland Timbers fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 11 goals in 7 league matches. When Portland hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Sporting KC, Colorado Rapids, LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.
Dallas form and stats
The visitors are W2-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer.
The manager Martínez was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Toyota Stadium. Dallas suffered a 1-2 loss to Nashville SC. The attacker Obrian got a match rating of 7.32 in that game. Obrian scored one goal and hit two key passes.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Sporting KC wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.Dallas are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 5 draws and 10 defeats. From a total of 19 matches.
Sports betting statistic: Both teams have scored at least one goal in 12 of this club's latest 16 league games.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Dallas as they have only managed to score 7 times from 8 away games in the league. 9 goals have been conceded by Dallas in these games.
Head 2 Head
This isn't the first time these sides meet this campaign, as the statistics show this recent match: Dallas - Portland Timbers 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Portland Timbers victories, four draws and three Dallas wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Ferreira 9 goals |   E. da Silva Ferreira 4 goals |  F. Boli 3 goals |
Portland Timbers missing players
Dallas missing players
| Portland Timbers | Dallas | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 19 | 11 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 19 |
| 24 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 81% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 88% |
| 62% | 57% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 62% | 71% |
| 56% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 38% | 47% |
| 38% | 43% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 25% | 14% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 57% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 62% | 71% |
| 25% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 38% | 24% |
| 31% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | 18% |
| 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3 | 3.9 |
| 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5 | 4.3 |
| 2.3 | 2.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | 13 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11.2 | 11.1 |
| 3.8 | 4.1 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.2 | 3.7 |
| 32% | 38% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 21% | 30% |
| 12.8 | 11.7 | 12.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 14.1 | 11.6 |
| 5.1 | 4.6 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
- Dallas have the most points from losing position (10) in Major League Soccer
- Dallas have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Portland Timbers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| 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 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 28 |
| 2 | Seattle Sounders | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 27 |
| 3 | Los Angeles FC | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 25 |
| 4 | Dallas | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 23 |
| 5 | SJ Earthquakes | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 23 |
| 6 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 21 |
| 7 | Minnesota United | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 12 | -3 | 20 |
| 8 | Austin | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -6 | 19 |
| 9 | Real Salt Lake | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -9 | 19 |
| 10 | Houston Dynamo | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 19 | -6 | 18 |
| 11 | Portland Timbers | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -5 | 17 |
| 12 | Sporting KC | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -8 | 17 |
| 13 | Colorado Rapids | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 | -11 | 13 |
| 14 | LA Galaxy | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 15 | -13 | 12 |
