With the anxious opening fixture out of the way it’s time for the second Major League Soccer meeting of the season. Real Salt Lake are ready to confront Seattle Sounders in front of their stadium regulars.
It's quite the trip for Seattle Sounders when visiting Salt as the cities are 1200 kilometers apart.
Real Salt Lake and Seattle Sounders 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.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
Last season, Real Salt Lake's league stats were 14 wins, 6 draws and 14 losses, providing 7th place in the Major League Soccer. From these 34 matches they scored 55 goals and let in 54. Playing at their own stadium in the last season Real Salt Lake produced 9-4-4 (win-draw-lost) with 30 goals and 21 conceded.
Real Salt Lake are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 180 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Wood).
The home team returns to Rio Tinto Stadium after drawing with Houston Dynamo (placed 8th) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0. Ruiz (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.05/10. Ruiz hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Portland Timbers (0-2).The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Real Salt Lake have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 18 matches with the results: Won twelve, drawn five and lost one.
Seattle Sounders form and stats
Let's have a look at how Seattle Sounders performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 17 victories, 9 draws and 8 defeats. In total they scored 53 and conceded 33 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 9 - drew 4 and lost 4 with 25/18 goals scored/conceded.
Montero was the last player to score for the away team. Sounders haven't scored a league goal in the last 262 minutes.
Seattle Sounders's previous game was their home loss versus Nashville SC (0-1).
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Seattle Sounders in our archives, and the results are: seven wins for Seattle Sounders, two draws and four defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Leon in just three days.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Salt wins - draws - Seattle Sounders wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.Real Salt Lake missing players
Seattle Sounders missing players
| Real Salt Lake | Seattle Sounders | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Real Salt Lake | Last season | Seattle Sounders | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 37 | 17 | Played | P | 17 | 35 | ||
| 15 | 9 | Won | W | 9 | 17 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 10 | ||
| 15 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | ||
| 57 | 30 | Scored | S | 25 | 53 | ||
| 57 | 21 | Conceded | C | 18 | 33 | ||
| 92% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | ||
| 76% | 76% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 74% | ||
| 68% | 65% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 47% | 46% | ||
| 38% | 41% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 12% | 17% | ||
| 19% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 6% | 6% | ||
| 68% | 71% | BTTS | BTTS | 65% | 54% | ||
| 22% | 24% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 31% | ||
| 19% | 12% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 20% | ||
| 4.7 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 4.9 | ||
| 6.5 | 5.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.3 | 5.1 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12.6 | 13.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.9 | 12.9 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.6 | ||
| 33% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 33% | ||
| 14.7 | 11.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.9 | 11.1 | ||
| 4.5 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Austin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | Los Angeles FC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | LA Galaxy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Nashville SC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Portland Timbers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Dallas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Minnesota United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Houston Dynamo | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Real Salt Lake | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Seattle Sounders | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | SJ Earthquakes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Sporting KC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 13 | Colorado Rapids | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 14 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 0 |
