Home advantage could prove decisive in Real Salt Lake - Charlotte battle

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 09.April
Match begins: 01:30 (UTC)
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium (20008 seats)

This promises to be quite the action-packed battle at Rio Tinto Stadium in the Major League Soccer. Real Salt Lake is in 14th position and host Charlotte in 14th position. Learn more about the game here!

Insights:
  • Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals (13) in Major League Soccer
  • Charlotte have scored in all their away matches so far.

This has all the signs of an exciting fixture with lots of action and excitement as both participants are well revitalized since they last saw competitive action. Let's get started!

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Real Salt Lake form and stats

0-0-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Real Salt Lake, who have the most conceded goals (13) in Major League Soccer, so far this season.

Stress levels are on the rise for Real Salt Lake's attacking players as they have now played 248 minutes without scoring in a league game. Glad was their last goal scorer.

No payout for Real Salt Lake in their previous match, an away game at Columbus Crew that ended in defeat 0-4. Real Salt Lake were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. Midfielder Ojeda was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.64 (out of ten) in that game. Ojeda dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times and had 26 successful passes (of 30 total).

Ahead of that match, Salt lost 0-4 at home to Saint Louis City.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Real Salt Lake have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 20 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 5 and lost 7.

Real Salt Lake has scored {1 goals} so far and conceded {6 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Charlotte form and stats

Charlotte are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Major League Soccer, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Toronto in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2. An inspired comeback made the scores level in Charlotte's duel with Toronto. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Jóźwiak found the equalizer. Jóźwiak got a match rating of 8.21 in that game, top player of the team. Jóźwiak scored one goal, served one assist and hit one key pass.

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs New York RB.

Charlotte are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.

The travelling fans enjoy Charlotte's attacking play in away games, having scored 5 goals in 3 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

SaltJ. Glad
J. Glad
2 goals
CharlotteE. Copetti
E. Copetti
2 goals
Real Salt LakeD. Kreilach
D. Kreilach
1 goals

Real Salt Lake missing players

Charlotte missing players

Real Salt Lake Charlotte
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
5 2 0 Played P 0 3 6
1 0 0 Won W 0 1 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 1 2
4 2 0 Lost L 0 1 3
3 1 0 Scored S 0 5 6
13 6 0 Conceded C 0 6 11
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 83%
80% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 67%
40% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 67% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
40% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 67%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
60% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 33%
 
6 8.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.3 5
5 3.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.3 5
1.6 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 4.3 3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.4 18 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 9 10
5.6 7 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.7 3.2
11% 7% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 45% 32%
 
16 12.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 13.3 12.8
6.8 6.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 5.7 5.5
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • All of Charlotte's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • All of Real Salt Lake's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Charlotte have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Charlotte have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Charlotte haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Real Salt Lake have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Real Salt Lake have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Real Salt Lake have lost all their home matches so far.
  • Real Salt Lake have the fewest points (0) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals (13) in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals (6) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals in the second half (7) in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the the worst goal difference (-10) in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the the worst goal difference (-5) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Real Salt Lake have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Real Salt Lake 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 Saint Louis City 6 5 0 1 15 5 3 2 0 1 6 2 3 3 0 0 9 3 10 15
2 Seattle Sounders 6 3 2 1 10 2 3 2 1 0 6 0 3 1 1 1 4 2 8 11
3 Los Angeles FC 5 3 2 0 9 3 3 3 0 0 9 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 6 11
4 Minnesota United 5 3 2 0 6 3 2 0 2 0 2 2 3 3 0 0 4 1 3 11
5 SJ Earthquakes 6 3 1 2 6 7 4 3 1 0 5 2 2 0 0 2 1 5 -1 10
6 Dallas 6 2 2 2 8 7 4 2 1 1 6 4 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 8
7 Austin 5 2 1 2 6 7 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 1 0 1 2 3 -1 7
8 Vancouver Whitecaps 6 1 3 2 10 7 3 1 1 1 7 3 3 0 2 1 3 4 3 6
9 Houston Dynamo 5 2 0 3 5 7 2 2 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 3 2 7 -2 6
10 Portland Timbers 6 1 2 3 6 11 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 0 1 2 4 9 -5 5
11 LA Galaxy 5 0 4 1 2 4 2 0 2 0 1 1 3 0 2 1 1 3 -2 4
12 Sporting KC 6 0 3 3 2 7 2 0 1 1 1 4 4 0 2 2 1 3 -5 3
13 Colorado Rapids 6 0 3 3 2 8 3 0 2 1 1 2 3 0 1 2 1 6 -6 3
14 Real Salt Lake 5 1 0 4 3 13 2 0 0 2 1 6 3 1 0 2 2 7 -10 3

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