All available information for the Seattle Sounders - Portland Timbers match:

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Portland Timbers have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 6-7-12 (win-draw-loss) from 25 matches.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Portland Timbers, who are travelling more than 1200 kilometers to play this game.

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.

Seattle Sounders form and stats

Seattle Sounders have played 14 Major League Soccer games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 6-4-4 (wins-draws-losses).

A strong away win for Seattle Sounders against Austin the last match, as Rusnák and Morris were on target. At last, a league victory after four matches without. The victory against Austin came after Rusnák's winning goal. The Sounders manager Schmetzer was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 46th minute. Midfielder Lodeiro was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.63 (out of ten) in that game. Lodeiro served one assist and hit one key pass.

Before that, Seattle Sounders played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Minnesota United.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Seattle Sounders matches with similar probabilities have ended with 6 wins, 3 draws and 6 defeats (from 15 games).

Low on goals? In this team's last 14 league games, 11 have had zero, one or two goals.

The Sounders fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 15 in 14 matches. From these home matches, Seattle Sounders have conceded only 8 goals.

Portland Timbers form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Portland Timbers so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 1-5-7 (win-draw-lose).

The followers enjoyed Portland's previous match versus Real Salt Lake (placed 6th), a 2-1 win played at home. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Savarese when Mora scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 57th minute. The attacker Moreno got a match rating of 7.95 in that game. Moreno scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and had 26 successful passes (of 29 total).

The game before that, was lost at home, a 2-3 defeat against Vancouver Whitecaps.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Portland Timbers playing away, we found 6 games. Results were 2 away wins, 1 draw and 3 home wins.

The visitors have scored 9 goals from 13 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Portland Timbers has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

Portland Timbers have won at least one point in the last 6 games (4-2-0) facing Seattle Sounders.

Sounders and Portland Timbers have faced off previously this season: Seattle Sounders - Portland Timbers 0-0.

Top Goalscorers

J. Morris 10 goals

E. da Silva Ferreira 6 goals

F. Boli 6 goals

Seattle Sounders missing players

Portland Timbers missing players