Real Salt Lake and SJ Earthquakes supporters can't wait for Major League Soccer bout at Rio Tinto Stadium

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 SJ Earthquakes.

SJ Earthquakes 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.

Real Salt Lake form and stats

30 points is a decent return from 14 Major League Soccer games here at Rio Tinto Stadium for Real Salt Lake. The data says 9 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. Ever since the LA Galaxy game Salt has been unbeatable here at Rio Tinto Stadium producing seven straight wins.

Salt enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Dallas's place. The match ended 2-1 with Albert Rusnák and Damir Kreilach scoring. Some amazing scenes last match, when Albert Rusnák scored the winning goal one minutes into stoppage time. The forward Albert Rusnák won the honour of being "man of the match" for Salt with the rating of 7.93/10. Rusnák scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 42 successful passes (of 47 total).

Heartbreak before that as Salt lost 0-1 at Chicago Fire's place.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Salt as they have a new game in only four days, a Major League Soccer match thankfully also at home. Portland Timbers are visiting.

A decent goal production from Salt in their home games so far, with 26 goals from 14 league matches. Real Salt Lake's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

SJ Earthquakes form and stats

4-6-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for SJ Earthquakes in their Major League Soccer matches away. Three consecutive losses in away matches means Earthquakes are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.

There might be some fixture complaints from SJ Earthquakes as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Major League Soccer match against Portland Timbers (0-2). It's a concern for Earthquakes that their goalie James Marcinkowski managed ten saves in the Portland Timbers game, but still could not stop a loss. James Marcinkowski was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.43. The agile goalkeeper Marcinkowski stopped the opponent with ten saves.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Vancouver Whitecaps.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Earthquakes when being an outsider away as they are today, we find eight matches with the visitors losing five times, drawing zero and winning three games.

The visiting Earthquakes have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 17 goals from 14 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 20 goals have been conceded by SJ Earthquakes in these games.

Head 2 Head

This was the final score when the participants played each other previously this season; SJ Earthquakes - Real Salt Lake 3-4. Head-to-head statistics (for the preceeding ten meetings): Salt won three games, two matches ended with a tie and SJ Earthquakes have five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five

Top Goalscorers

D. Kreilach 15 goals

J. López Ramírez 12 goals

A. Rusnák 8 goals

Real Salt Lake missing players

SJ Earthquakes missing players