Football match betting preview: Real Salt Lake vs New York RB

It's quite the trip for New York RB when visiting Real Salt Lake as the cities are 2100 kilometers apart.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Salt and New York RB.

Real Salt Lake form and stats

Real Salt Lake have collected 13 points from their Major League Soccer home games so far after 3-4-4.

Real Salt Lake shared the glory with Sporting KC in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. Trouble was brewing at the score 0-2 against Sporting KC last time out, but a goal from Julio completed a comeback to a draw result for Real Salt Lake. The hometeam coach Mastroeni made a successful contribution in the game against Sporting KC, bringing on Julio who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw. The striker Arango bested all teammates in that fixture and was awarded a match rating of 7.54 out of 10. Arango served one assist and hit four key passes.

This is expected to be a close game, with Salt perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Real Salt Lake as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Real Salt Lake has won 6 of these, drawn 2 and lost 0.

Real Salt Lake are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 15 goals in 11 games. Real Salt Lake have conceded 16 in these home matches.

New York RB form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for New York RB so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-5 (win-draw-lose).

York might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Cincinnati proved too strong as New York RB slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Red Bull Arena. New York RB were so close to getting something from the game against Cincinnati, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal three minutes into overtime. Midfield player Amaya was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.6/10. Amaya hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with York playing away and similar expectations, we found 17 relevant matches. Results were 5 New York RB wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats.

Goal fest? This team have played 5 consecutive league fixtures all with at least three goals (over 2.5 goals).

New York RB are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {5 goals} from 10 away games.

Head 2 Head

Real Salt Lake-New York RB H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Real Salt Lake four wins, New York RB three wins, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

D. Musovski 5 goals

J. Savarino Quintero 5 goals

J. Glad 4 goals

Real Salt Lake missing players

New York RB missing players