The home side, Real Salt Lake, should be favourites in this match, but Orlando City have exhibited both know-how and fearlessness. Learn more about the match!
- Real Salt Lake is in the best form (4-2-0) in Major League Soccer
- Orlando City have the most scored goals in the second half (20) in Major League Soccer
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Orlando City, who are travelling more than 3700 kilometers to play this game.
The visiting Orlando City played their last game only four days ago, a Major League Soccer match.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
Real Salt Lake's results here at Rio Tinto Stadium in the Major League Soccer have been very modest with 2 victories, 4 draws and 4 defeats. Two draws in a row at home now for Salt.
A good away victory last time out for Real Salt Lake, who won 1-0 against Toronto. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Mastroeni when Julio scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 74th minute. Eneli was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.75 out of 10. The defender Eneli hit three key passes and won 5 of 7 duels.
In the match before that, Real Salt Lake hosted Minnesota United and drew the game 2-2.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 Salt have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 24 games) they have won 10 times, drawn 7 and lost 7.
There will be little rest for Real Salt Lake after this match as they are travelling to Sporting KC for a Major League Soccer game in only four days.
The Salt fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 10 matches. Real Salt Lake have conceded 16 from these games.
Orlando City form and stats
The visitors are W4-D3-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Major League Soccer.
Impressive finishing from Araújo, Kara, McGuire and Þórhallsson secured the home win 4-0 against Toronto in their previous game. As mentioned above, Orlando was the only team on the pitch versus Toronto in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. Midfield player Araújo was the top player of the team with a match rating of 9.32/10. Araújo scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 71 successful passes (of 76 total).
Before that, Orlando City secured a home win against Chicago Fire with the score 3-1.Orlando City are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 8 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 17 matches.
Orlando has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 14 goals from 9 games. As opposed to that, Orlando City have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last six meetings: one - three - two (Real Salt Lake wins - draws - Orlando City wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less. The matches between these sides have had a tendency to be hot-tempered, having seen 3 sending-offs from the last six encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  F. Torres Pérez 7 goals |  D. McGuire 7 goals |  E. Kara 5 goals |
Real Salt Lake missing players
Orlando City missing players
| Real Salt Lake | Orlando City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 21 |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 26 | 11 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 14 | 32 |
| 31 | 16 | 3 | Conceded | C | 0 | 11 | 23 |
| 81% | 70% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 89% | 90% |
| 76% | 70% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 89% | 86% |
| 67% | 70% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 52% |
| 38% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 10% | 10% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 57% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 57% |
| 24% | 30% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 22% | 33% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 22% | 19% |
| 5.5 | 6.4 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 3.9 | 5.5 |
| 4 | 2.9 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.3 | 4.3 |
| 2.2 | 2.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15.5 | 18.9 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 11.4 | 12.7 |
| 5.9 | 6.3 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.4 | 4.6 |
| 21% | 17% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 45% | 33% |
| 12.6 | 10.8 | 10.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 15.3 | 12.1 |
| 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 4 | 3.8 |
- Orlando City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Orlando City have the most scored goals in the second half (20) in Major League Soccer
- Orlando City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals (16) at home in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) 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 is in the best form (4-2-0) 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 | St. Louis City | 20 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 39 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 35 |
| 2 | Seattle Sounders | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 32 |
| 3 | Los Angeles FC | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 32 |
| 4 | Real Salt Lake | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 26 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | -5 | 30 |
| 5 | Dallas | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 29 |
| 6 | SJ Earthquakes | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 25 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 19 | -3 | 28 |
| 7 | Houston Dynamo | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 24 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 23 | -2 | 27 |
| 8 | Austin | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -3 | 26 |
| 9 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 25 |
| 10 | Sporting KC | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 26 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -4 | 24 |
| 11 | Minnesota United | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 18 | -4 | 24 |
| 12 | Portland Timbers | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -8 | 22 |
| 13 | LA Galaxy | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 32 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 18 | -12 | 19 |
| 14 | Colorado Rapids | 20 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 29 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -15 | 14 |
