A crucial fixture in Major League Soccer as both contenders are fighting for the top positions. With Seattle Sounders in 1st place and Colorado Rapids located at 3rd, this has all the looks of a thriling duel. Read on to find out more!
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals (22) in Major League Soccer
- Colorado Rapids have the most clean sheets (11) in Major League Soccer
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
These teams have little in common geographically as Colorado Rapids have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Seattle Sounders form and stats
6-4-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Seattle Sounders so far this season.
Sounders enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at SJ Earthquakes's place. The match ended 3-1 with Cristian Roldán and Raúl Ruidíaz (2) scoring. The attacker Cristian Roldán was announced as "man of the match" for Sounders with a rating of 8.12/10. Roldán scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and had 25 successful passes (of 31 total).
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Sporting KC.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sounders handle that role? We have found 18 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are nine wins, five draws and four defeats.
Seattle Sounders has scored 19 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Seattle Sounders have only conceded 11 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Colorado Rapids form and stats
6-3-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Colorado Rapids, who have the most clean sheets (11) in Major League Soccer, in their Major League Soccer matches away. Things are running smoothly for Colorado who hasn't tasted defeat in their last twelve matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Real Salt Lake.
229 minutes! That's how long the Colorado goalkeeper William Paul Yarbrough Story and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Colorado had fun at their own home last time out, beating Austin 3-0. Nicolás Mezquida, Auston Trusty and Jonathan Lewis scored. Jack Price got a match rating of 8.02 in that game, top player of the team. Price served one assist, hit two key passes and had 34 successful passes (of 38 total).
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Toronto.Colorado are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is six wins, four draws and one defeat. From a total of eleven matches.
Colorado are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 12 games (in the league). Colorado have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The squads have met each other already this season, with the result Colorado Rapids - Sounders 1-1 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sounders seven wins, one draw and Colorado Rapids two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Ruidíaz Misitich 16 goals |   M. Barrios Puerta 7 goals |  F. Montero Muñoz 6 goals |
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| Seattle Sounders | Colorado Rapids | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 26 | 13 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 26 |
| 15 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 41 | 19 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 15 | 38 |
| 22 | 11 | 5 | Conceded | C | 6 | 13 | 24 |
| 96% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 88% |
| 69% | 77% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 77% |
| 42% | 38% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 46% |
| 19% | 23% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 25% | 23% |
| 4% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 4% |
| 50% | 38% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 54% |
| 35% | 46% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 42% | 42% |
| 19% | 23% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 15% |
| 4.4 | 6.1 | 9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 4.2 | 4.7 |
| 5.2 | 4.1 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 5.1 | 4.2 |
| 1.6 | 1.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.3 | 13.9 | 13.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.7 | 12.8 | 13.7 |
| 4.3 | 5.1 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.2 |
| 37% | 29% | 10% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 33% | 35% |
- Colorado Rapids have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Colorado Rapids have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (9) in Major League Soccer
- Colorado Rapids have the most clean sheets (11) in Major League Soccer
- Colorado Rapids have the most clean sheets (5) away in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals (22) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have the most matches under the total-line (16) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have the most scored goals in the second half (28) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have the the best goal difference (+19) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have won significantly more corners at home than 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 | Seattle Sounders | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 41 | 22 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 19 | 51 |
| 2 | Sporting KC | 27 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 47 | 29 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 18 | 49 |
| 3 | Colorado Rapids | 26 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 38 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 48 |
| 4 | Portland Timbers | 27 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 44 | 44 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 0 | 43 |
| 5 | Real Salt Lake | 27 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 44 | 42 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 29 | 2 | 39 |
| 6 | LA Galaxy | 27 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 38 | 44 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 29 | -6 | 38 |
| 7 | Minnesota United | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 30 | 32 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 25 | -2 | 37 |
| 8 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 26 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 31 | 34 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 20 | -3 | 34 |
| 9 | Los Angeles FC | 27 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 39 | 40 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 21 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 19 | -1 | 33 |
| 10 | SJ Earthquakes | 27 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 35 | 41 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 22 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 19 | -6 | 33 |
| 11 | Dallas | 28 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 39 | 47 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 32 | -8 | 27 |
| 12 | Houston Dynamo | 28 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 31 | 41 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 24 | -10 | 27 |
| 13 | Austin | 27 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 27 | 43 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 22 | -16 | 22 |