Real Salt Lake vs Los Angeles FC match preview

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 07.August
Match begins: 02:00 (UTC)
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium (20008 seats)

Los Angeles FC cannot bank on any handouts from the home team Real Salt Lake in this Major League Soccer fixture. Here's our broad match guide!

Insights:
  • Real Salt Lake have the most clean sheets (8) in Major League Soccer
  • Los Angeles FC have the fewest conceded goals (23) in Major League Soccer

Los Angeles FC have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1000 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

Real Salt Lake and Los Angeles FC should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Real Salt Lake form and stats

24 points is a decent return from 11 Major League Soccer games here at Rio Tinto Stadium for Real Salt Lake. The data says 7 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.

Salt shared the glory with SJ Earthquakes in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. The talented striker Savarino outdid all the other footballers in that fixture and received a match rating of 8.1 out of 10. Savarino scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Dallas (0-1).

Goals, goals, goals? Who knows about this one, but we do know that 9 of the 12 latest league matches with this club has seen three goals or more.

Real Salt Lake have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Rio Tinto Stadium with 18 goals in 11 league matches. Real Salt Lake are not conceding a lot of goals here at Rio Tinto Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 11 matches.

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Los Angeles FC form and stats

As the visiting team matches, Los Angeles FC, who have the fewest conceded goals (23) in Major League Soccer, have produced an overall stat of 6-1-3 so far. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Angeles hope to make it five in this match.

Los Angeles FC are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the match against Seattle Sounders (placed 9th). Cifuentes got a match rating of 8.21 in that game, top player of the team. Cifuentes hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 4 times and had 39 successful passes (of 47 total).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Sporting KC with the score of 2-0.

Los Angeles FC has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 16 goals from 10 games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - zero - eight (Salt wins - draws - Los Angeles FC wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Los Angeles FCC. Arango Duque
C. Arango Duque
9 goals
Los Angeles FCC. Vela Garrido
C. Vela Garrido
7 goals
Los Angeles FCJ. Cifuentes Charcopa
J. Cifuentes Charcopa
6 goals

Real Salt Lake missing players

Los Angeles FC missing players

Real Salt Lake Los Angeles FC
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 3 10 22
9 7 1 Won W 1 6 15
7 3 0 Drew D 1 1 3
7 1 1 Lost L 1 3 4
30 18 2 Scored S 4 16 44
29 7 2 Conceded C 4 10 23
87% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 64% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 90% 95%
57% 55% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 40% 59%
26% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 32%
13% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 14%
48% 36% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 64%
35% 55% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 30% 27%
30% 18% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 9%
 
5.4 6 7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4 6.1
4.6 4.1 3 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 5.9 4.9
2.4 2.2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3.3 2.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.8 14.1 19.5 Shots (avg) S ( 14.3 12.6 15.4
4.1 4.8 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7.3 4.4 5.6
32% 34% 15% Goal Efficiency G E 18% 36% 35%
 
11.8 9.4 8 Shots against (avg) S A 11.7 12.7 11.5
4.8 3.5 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 4.5 3.5
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Los Angeles FC have the fewest conceded goals (10) away in Major League Soccer
  • Los Angeles FC have the fewest conceded goals (23) in Major League Soccer
  • Los Angeles FC have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Major League Soccer
  • Los Angeles FC have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Major League Soccer
  • Los Angeles FC have the fewest matches over the total-line (6) in Major League Soccer
  • Los Angeles FC have the the best goal difference (+21) in Major League Soccer
  • Los Angeles FC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Los Angeles FC haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Los Angeles FC is in the best form (5-0-1) in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Real Salt Lake have the fewest conceded goals (7) at home in Major League Soccer
  • Real Salt Lake have the most clean sheets (8) in Major League Soccer

  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 22 15 3 4 44 23 12 9 2 1 28 13 10 6 1 3 16 10 21 48
2 Austin 23 13 5 5 47 28 10 5 3 2 25 12 13 8 2 3 22 16 19 44
3 Dallas 23 9 8 6 33 25 12 6 3 3 18 11 11 3 5 3 15 14 8 35
4 Minnesota United 23 10 5 8 35 30 12 5 4 3 20 14 11 5 1 5 15 16 5 35
5 Real Salt Lake 23 9 7 7 30 29 11 7 3 1 18 7 12 2 4 6 12 22 1 34
6 Nashville SC 23 8 8 7 29 29 10 3 5 2 13 11 13 5 3 5 16 18 0 32
7 Portland Timbers 23 7 10 6 39 35 11 5 4 2 20 13 12 2 6 4 19 22 4 31
8 LA Galaxy 22 9 3 10 30 28 12 6 1 5 20 16 10 3 2 5 10 12 2 30
9 Seattle Sounders 22 9 2 11 29 27 11 6 1 4 19 13 11 3 1 7 10 14 2 29
10 Vancouver Whitecaps 23 7 6 10 25 38 11 5 3 3 14 14 12 2 3 7 11 24 -13 27
11 Houston Dynamo 23 7 4 12 28 37 12 4 4 4 16 14 11 3 0 8 12 23 -9 25
12 Colorado Rapids 21 6 6 9 25 29 11 6 3 2 17 8 10 0 3 7 8 21 -4 24
13 SJ Earthquakes 22 5 8 9 36 45 11 4 5 2 22 21 11 1 3 7 14 24 -9 23
14 Sporting KC 24 5 5 14 19 42 11 3 2 6 8 13 13 2 3 8 11 29 -23 20

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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.