Real Salt Lake are trusting their home following to aid them to win this match versus Portland Timbers. Who wins at Rio Tinto Stadium?
- Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals (20) in Major League Soccer
- Portland Timbers have the most conceded goals (13) away in Major League Soccer
Real Salt Lake's stadium, Rio Tinto Stadium, has a grass surface. Portland Timbers have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Portland Timbers when playing on grass; 6 wins, 7 draws and 12 losses from 25 matches. They have scored {31 goals} in these games and conceded 46.
Portland Timbers have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1200 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
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 Real Salt Lake and Portland Timbers.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
2 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Real Salt Lake have to build on here at Rio Tinto Stadium in the Major League Soccer.
Gómez was the last player to score a league goal for Real Salt Lake and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Real Salt Lake haven't scored in 280 minutes.
The Salt crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-3 to Los Angeles FC here at Rio Tinto Stadium. The first defeat after collecting points in three league rounds. Oviedo, defender, was given a rating of 7.44/10 in that game, top of the team. Oviedo hit five key passes and won 11 of 15 duels.
Before that, a fine away victory at Portland Timbers. A US Open Cup game. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Real Salt Lake handle that role? We have found 21 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 10 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats.
There will be little rest for Real Salt Lake after this match as they are travelling to Colorado Rapids for a Major League Soccer game in only three days.
Salt has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Real Salt Lake defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Portland Timbers form and stats
Portland Timbers have only collected 4 points from their away games in the Major League Soccer, after 1-1-4 (6 played).
Portland go into this game after a win, the home game against Vancouver Whitecaps that ended 3-1. Midfield player Evander was the top player of the team with a match rating of 9.02/10. Evander scored two goals, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 29 successful passes (of 36 total).
The match before that was the US Open Cup-battle against Real Salt Lake, a home defeat (3-4). We have checked recent matches where Portland Timbers have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 17 games were 6 victories, 4 draws and 7 defeats.
Sports betting statistic: Both teams have scored in 9 of this club's last 11 league matches.
A new game in only three days for Portland Timbers, the Major League Soccer home match versus Minnesota United. Busy days.
Portland find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. For Portland Timbers, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Real Salt Lake victories, two draws and four Portland Timbers wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  E. da Silva Ferreira 4 goals |   J. Savarino Quintero 3 goals |  J. Glad 2 goals |
Real Salt Lake missing players
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| Real Salt Lake | Portland Timbers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 10 | 7 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 18 |
| 20 | 11 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 13 | 19 |
| 82% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 92% |
| 82% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 83% | 75% |
| 73% | 83% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 36% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 45% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 83% | 75% |
| 18% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 55% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 5.6 | 6.2 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 3.6 | 2.8 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6.3 | 6.5 |
| 2.2 | 2.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.2 | 17 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 9.2 | 10.3 |
| 5.7 | 6.3 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.7 | 4 |
| 16% | 18% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 32% | 38% |
| 13.6 | 12.5 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 13.8 | 13 |
| 5 | 4.7 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5.8 | 5.1 |
- Portland Timbers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Portland Timbers have the most conceded goals (13) away in Major League Soccer
- Portland Timbers haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals (11) at home in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals (20) in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have the most conceded goals in the first half (10) in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have the the worst goal difference (-10) in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have the the worst goal difference (-4) at home in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded 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 | Seattle Sounders | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 23 |
| 2 | Los Angeles FC | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 21 |
| 3 | Saint Louis City | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 19 |
| 4 | Dallas | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 18 |
| 5 | SJ Earthquakes | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 18 |
| 6 | Portland Timbers | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -1 | 15 |
| 7 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 14 |
| 8 | Houston Dynamo | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 14 |
| 9 | Minnesota United | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 12 |
| 10 | Colorado Rapids | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 11 | Real Salt Lake | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -10 | 11 |
| 12 | Austin | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 10 |
| 13 | Sporting KC | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -8 | 9 |
| 14 | LA Galaxy | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -9 | 6 |
