Glory for the home side, the away team runs away as victors or a point each? Anything could happen when the mid-table inhabitants Real Salt Lake and Vancouver Whitecaps duel at Rio Tinto Stadium.
- Real Salt Lake have the fewest conceded goals (11) at home in Major League Soccer
- Vancouver Whitecaps have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
This field has grass, which is not Vancouver Whitecaps's normal surface at their own football stadium. When appearing on grass Vancouver Whitecaps have performed like this: Played 26 matches taking 3 wins, 7 draws and 16 defeats with the goal numbers 21-52 (scored/conceded).
Vancouver Whitecaps have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1500 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Major League Soccer game only three days ago.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
24 points is a decent return from 12 Major League Soccer games here at Rio Tinto Stadium for Real Salt Lake. The data says 7 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. Real Salt Lake are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Rio Tinto Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.
Happy days for Real Salt Lake in their previous game, a fixture away at Seattle Sounders (placed 10th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Sweet to taste a league win after three games without one. Defender Brody got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.14/10. Brody scored one goal and won 7 of 7 duels.
Preceding that match was the home game against Los Angeles FC that was lost 1-4.Lots of goals? We don't know about this one, but we do know that 11 of the 14 most recent league games with this side has contained three goals or more.
Salt have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Rio Tinto Stadium with 19 goals in 12 league matches. Real Salt Lake are not conceding a lot of goals here at Rio Tinto Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 12 matches.
Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats
Vancouver Whitecaps have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Major League Soccer, after 2-3-8 (13 played).
Impressive finishing from Gauld (2) secured the home win 2-1 against Colorado Rapids in their previous game. The attacker Gauld got a match rating of 8.84 in that game. Gauld scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against LA Galaxy wasn't a success with a 2-5 loss.Sports betting fact: Both teams have scored in 8 of this club's last 10 league games.
The Vancouver Whitecaps manager Sartini has some worries about the defense as 29 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Vancouver Whitecaps - Salt 2-1 was the end result in these contenders' latest head-to-head match, earlier this season. Real Salt Lake-Vancouver Whitecaps H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Real Salt Lake five wins, Vancouver Whitecaps five wins, zero draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  L. Cavallini 8 goals |   S. Córdova Lezama 6 goals |  R. Gauld 6 goals |
Real Salt Lake missing players
Vancouver Whitecaps missing players
| Real Salt Lake | Vancouver Whitecaps | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 13 | 26 |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 8 | 11 |
| 33 | 19 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 13 | 31 |
| 34 | 11 | 1 | Conceded | C | 7 | 29 | 45 |
| 88% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 72% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 77% |
| 60% | 58% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 69% | 65% |
| 28% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 38% | 35% |
| 16% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 8% | 12% |
| 52% | 42% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 62% | 62% |
| 32% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 15% | 27% |
| 28% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 23% | 19% |
| 5.2 | 6.1 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| 4.6 | 3.9 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 5.6 | 4.8 |
| 2.3 | 2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11.8 | 14.2 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.7 | 9.7 | 10.9 |
| 4 | 4.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 2.6 | 3.3 |
| 33% | 33% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 38% | 36% |
| 12.1 | 9.7 | 14.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.3 | 14.4 | 13.4 |
| 4.9 | 3.9 | 6.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.3 |
- Real Salt Lake have the fewest conceded goals (11) at home in Major League Soccer
- Vancouver Whitecaps have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Vancouver Whitecaps have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Vancouver Whitecaps haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Los Angeles FC | 25 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 54 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 30 | 57 |
| 2 | Austin | 25 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 54 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 32 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 16 | 20 | 48 |
| 3 | Dallas | 27 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 39 | 28 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 42 |
| 4 | Minnesota United | 25 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 40 | 35 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 5 | 38 |
| 5 | Real Salt Lake | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 33 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 23 | -1 | 37 |
| 6 | LA Galaxy | 24 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 37 | 34 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 33 |
| 7 | Portland Timbers | 26 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 42 | 40 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 25 | 2 | 33 |
| 8 | Nashville SC | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 34 | 36 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 19 | -2 | 33 |
| 9 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 31 | 45 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 29 | -14 | 33 |
| 10 | Seattle Sounders | 25 | 10 | 2 | 13 | 32 | 31 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 32 |
| 11 | Colorado Rapids | 25 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 36 | 39 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 27 | -3 | 31 |
| 12 | Houston Dynamo | 25 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 31 | 42 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 25 | -11 | 25 |
| 13 | SJ Earthquakes | 25 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 40 | 53 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 31 | -13 | 24 |
| 14 | Sporting KC | 26 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 26 | 48 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 33 | -22 | 23 |
