Home advantage could prove decisive in Seattle Sounders - LA Galaxy battle

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 12.March
Match begins: 20:30 (UTC)
Venue: CenturyLink Field (68000 seats)

This looks to be quite the engaging contest at CenturyLink Field in the Major League Soccer. Seattle Sounders is in 14th position and welcome LA Galaxy in 2nd spot. Read all about the fixture here!

Seattle Sounders have less rest than LA Galaxy in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a CONCACAF Champions League game only four days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus León, was also a home game here at CenturyLink Field. The away team is better rested.

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Seattle Sounders form and stats

0-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Seattle Sounders so far this season.

Sounders haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 352 minutes ago. Montero scored that one.

A Major League Soccer defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Real Salt Lake.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Seattle Sounders handle that role? We have found 20 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are ten wins, five draws and five defeats.

Seattle Sounders has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.

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LA Galaxy form and stats

Only one away game in the Major League Soccer so far for LA Galaxy and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 5 victories, 4 draws and 8 losses from 17 travels.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Galaxy goalkeeper Jonathan Bond is eager to challenge this, with his 208 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

It's the second away game in a row for LA Galaxy, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Charlotte last time out. Defender Araujo was the best team player with a rating of 7.45. Araujo hit three key passes and won 6 of 9 duels.

Before that, LA Galaxy secured a home win against New York City with the score 1-0.

We have checked recent matches where Galaxy have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those twelve games were two victories, two draws and eight defeats.

LA Galaxy have the goal stats of 1-0 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Statistics for the former ten meetings involving these two participants are: five wins for Seattle Sounders, four draws and one win for LA Galaxy. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games. Ruidíaz likes to play against LA Galaxy and have scored 8 goals in these encounters.

Top Goalscorers

LA GalaxyE. Alvarez
E. Alvarez
1 goals
LA GalaxyJ. Hernández Balcázar
J. Hernández Balcázar
1 goals

Seattle Sounders missing players

LA Galaxy missing players

Seattle Sounders LA Galaxy
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
2 1 1 Played P 0 1 2
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 2
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 1 1 Lost L 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored S 0 1 2
2 1 1 Conceded C 0 0 0
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 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%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
5 8 8 Corners for (avg) C F 0 7 7
3.5 1 1 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3 4
2 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9 10 10 Shots (avg) S ( 0 20 16
4 2 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 5 4.5
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 20% 22%
 
12 10 10 Shots against (avg) S A 0 5 6.5
5 4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2 1
Seattle Sounders Last season LA Galaxy
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
35 18   Played P   17 34
17 8   Won W   5 13
10 6   Drew D   4 9
8 4   Lost L   8 12
53 28   Scored S   21 50
33 15   Conceded C   32 54
94% 89%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
74% 78%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   94% 91%
46% 44%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   71% 65%
17% 22%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   29% 29%
6% 6%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   12% 15%
54% 44%   BTTS BTTS   53% 65%
31% 44%   Clean Sheets C S   12% 15%
20% 22%   Failed to Score F T   35% 21%
 
4.9 6.3   Corners for (avg) C F   5 5.1
5.1 4.1   Corners against (avg) C A   5.4 5
1.7 1.7   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.5 1.6
0 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
12.9 14.7   Shots (avg) S (   10.9 12.7
4.6 5.3   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.8 4.8
33% 29%   Goal Efficiency G E   33% 31%
 
11.1 9.4   Shots against (avg) S A   14.8 14.1
3 2.7   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.3 5.2

  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 2 2 0 0 10 1 2 2 0 0 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 6
2 LA Galaxy 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 6
3 Los Angeles FC 2 1 1 0 4 1 2 1 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
4 Nashville SC 2 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 4
5 Real Salt Lake 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
6 Colorado Rapids 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 3
7 Sporting KC 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -1 3
8 Portland Timbers 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
9 Minnesota United 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
10 Dallas 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 1
11 Houston Dynamo 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 1
12 SJ Earthquakes 2 0 1 1 4 6 2 0 1 1 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 1
13 Vancouver Whitecaps 2 0 1 1 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 -4 1
14 Seattle Sounders 2 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 -2 0

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Major League Soccer (often known simply as MLS) is the top level of football (soccer) in the United States and Canada. MLS has 24 teams divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western. Each team play 34 fixtures to decide a league table champion. The top fourteen teams then compete in playoff to crown a MLS Cup champion.