Major League Soccer game preview and numbers: Real Salt Lake meet Houston Dynamo

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 29.May
Match begins: 01:30 (UTC)
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium (20008 seats)

4th place in the Major League Soccer table for Real Salt Lake so far, a strong performance. The match-going followers pray for more fun as 7th-placed Houston Dynamo visit Rio Tinto Stadium.

Insights:
  • Real Salt Lake have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Houston Dynamo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Houston Dynamo have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 2300 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

The visiting Houston Dynamo played their last game only three days ago, a US Open Cup match. That game, against Sporting KC, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Houston Dynamo.

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Real Salt Lake form and stats

4 victories, 1 draw and 0 defeats. That’s what Real Salt Lake have to build on here at Rio Tinto Stadium in the Major League Soccer. Two home wins in a row for Real Salt Lake bring valid hopes of a third.

A good away victory last time out for Salt, who won 2-1 against Montreal Impact. Ruiz (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.05/10. Ruiz served one assist, hit three key passes and had 39 successful passes (of 46 total).

Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Austin.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Real Salt Lake handle that role? We have found 16 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 6 draws and 4 defeats.

Real Salt Lake have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Rio Tinto Stadium with 8 goals in 5 league matches. From these home matches, Salt have conceded only 4 goals.

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Houston Dynamo form and stats

The visitors are W2-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer.

Two away matches in a row for Houston Dynamo, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 vs Sporting KC in the US Open Cup.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus LA Galaxy at their stadium, the result 3-0.

We have checked recent matches where Houston have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 16 games were 2 victories, 4 draws and 10 defeats.

Houston Dynamo have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 5 league away games 7 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Houston Dynamo have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The two teams involved met each other earlier on this match year: Houston Dynamo - Salt 0-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Real Salt Lake four wins, five draws and Houston Dynamo one victory. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Houston DynamoC. Quintero Villalba
C. Quintero Villalba
5 goals
Houston DynamoC. Ferreira Vidal
C. Ferreira Vidal
5 goals
Real Salt LakeJ. Glad
J. Glad
2 goals

Real Salt Lake missing players

Houston Dynamo missing players

Real Salt Lake Houston Dynamo
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
13 5 2 Played P 1 5 13
6 4 2 Won W 0 2 5
4 1 0 Drew D 0 0 3
3 0 0 Lost L 1 3 5
14 8 3 Scored S 1 7 17
17 4 1 Conceded C 2 6 14
85% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 85%
62% 60% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 69%
46% 60% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 46%
23% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 15%
15% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 8%
46% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 40% 46%
31% 40% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 31%
38% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 38%
 
5.6 6.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 1.8 3.5
5 4.2 6 Corners against (avg) C A 8 7.8 7.2
2.2 2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.4 2.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 3
 
10.4 12.4 8 Shots (avg) S ( 8 9 10.6
3.6 4.6 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 3.6 3.7
30% 35% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 39% 35%
 
12.9 10.6 14.5 Shots against (avg) S A 13 16 13.5
5.7 5 6.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 5.2 4.2
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Houston Dynamo have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Houston Dynamo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Houston Dynamo have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Houston Dynamo haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Real Salt Lake have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Real Salt Lake have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Real Salt Lake haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Los Angeles FC 13 8 2 3 26 14 7 4 2 1 15 7 6 4 0 2 11 7 12 26
2 Austin 13 7 3 3 27 14 7 4 2 1 17 5 6 3 1 2 10 9 13 24
3 Dallas 13 6 4 3 21 12 7 5 1 1 15 6 6 1 3 2 6 6 9 22
4 Real Salt Lake 13 6 4 3 14 17 5 4 1 0 8 4 8 2 3 3 6 13 -3 22
5 LA Galaxy 13 6 2 5 13 14 6 3 0 3 5 8 7 3 2 2 8 6 -1 20
6 Nashville SC 13 5 4 4 15 15 4 2 2 0 7 4 9 3 2 4 8 11 0 19
7 Houston Dynamo 13 5 3 5 17 14 8 3 3 2 10 8 5 2 0 3 7 6 3 18
8 Colorado Rapids 13 5 3 5 15 14 7 5 2 0 11 1 6 0 1 5 4 13 1 18
9 Minnesota United 13 5 3 5 15 14 7 3 2 2 10 6 6 2 1 3 5 8 1 18
10 Portland Timbers 14 3 6 5 20 23 7 2 3 2 12 10 7 1 3 3 8 13 -3 15
11 SJ Earthquakes 13 3 5 5 23 29 8 3 4 1 17 16 5 0 1 4 6 13 -6 14
12 Seattle Sounders 11 4 1 6 13 15 4 2 0 2 6 5 7 2 1 4 7 10 -2 13
13 Sporting KC 14 3 4 7 13 25 6 3 2 1 7 5 8 0 2 6 6 20 -12 13
14 Vancouver Whitecaps 12 3 2 7 13 23 6 3 2 1 9 7 6 0 0 6 4 16 -10 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.