Real Salt Lake vs Dallas preview

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Dallas, who are travelling more than 2100 kilometers to play this game.

Real Salt Lake form and stats

5-4-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Real Salt Lake so far this season. It’s been three wins in a row for Salt here at Rio Tinto Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Real Salt Lake are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-4 away versus Vancouver Whitecaps. Midfielder Jonathan Menéndez was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.0 (out of ten) in that game. Menéndez hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 25 successful passes (of 31 total).

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Colorado Rapids.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Salt handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, five draws and three defeats.

Salt have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Rio Tinto Stadium with 17 goals in 11 league matches. From these home matches, Salt have conceded only 10 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

Dallas form and stats

There's been little loot from Dallas's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 11 away games in the Major League Soccer. Dallas only have 2 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 2 draws.

Dallas play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 5-3 victory visiting Austin (placed 12th). Midfielder Jesús Ferreira was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.81. Ferreira scored two goals, hit the woodwork once, hit four key passes, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 27 successful passes (of 33 total). A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Dallas, as mentioned above. 8 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?

Before that, Dallas travelled to Houston Dynamo and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.

Dallas are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, four draws and nine defeats. From a total of 15 matches.

Dallas have scored 12 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The Dallas manager L. Gonzalez has some worries about the defense as 22 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have fought before this season: Dallas - Real Salt Lake 2-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - five - four (Salt wins - draws - Dallas wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

R. Pepi 11 goals

D. Kreilach 8 goals

A. Rusnák 5 goals

Real Salt Lake missing players

Dallas missing players