Home team gets the points, the away team claims the win or an exciting draw? It's all possible when the mid-table sides Seattle Sounders and Real Salt Lake battle.
- Seattle Sounders have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Real Salt Lake have the most clean sheets (8) in Major League Soccer
It's quite the trip for Real Salt Lake when visiting Seattle Sounders as the cities are 1200 kilometers apart.
This has all the signs of an action-packed fixture with lots of action and energy as both contenders are well renewed since they last saw competitive action. Let's get started!
Seattle Sounders form and stats
7 victories, 1 draw and 4 defeats. That’s what Seattle Sounders have to build on here in the Major League Soccer. Two home wins in a row for Sounders bring valid hopes of a third.
In their previous game, the manager Schmetzer led his Seattle Sounders to a defeat away at Atlanta United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here. The defeat against Atlanta United was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored four minutes into stoppage time (by Gutman). Midfield player Roldán got a match rating of 7.43 in that game, the max score being 10. Roldán scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Dallas.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 8 wins, 4 draws and 6 defeats.
Seattle Sounders have proved capable of finding the net in their games here with 20 goals in 12 league matches. Seattle Sounders have conceded 13 in these home matches.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Real Salt Lake so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-6 (win-draw-lose).
This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus Los Angeles FC with 1-4 on the scoreboard. Córdova got a match rating of 7.35 in that game, top player of the team. Córdova scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to SJ Earthquakes.Salt are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 4 draws and 11 defeats. From a total of 19 matches.
Goal-happy betting people should observe that 10 of this club's 13 latest league games have ended with three or more goals.
In the opposite end, Real Salt Lake have conceded 22 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
The most up to date logged scoreline featuring both these teams is the Real Salt Lake - Sounders 1-0 played previously this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Seattle Sounders victories, two draws and four Real Salt Lake wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Morris 6 goals |  M. Lodeiro Benítez 5 goals |  R. Ruidíaz Misitich 5 goals |
Seattle Sounders missing players
Real Salt Lake missing players
| Seattle Sounders | Real Salt Lake | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 12 | 24 |
| 10 | 7 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 12 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| 31 | 20 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 12 | 31 |
| 29 | 13 | 6 | Conceded | C | 2 | 22 | 33 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 83% | 88% |
| 67% | 75% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | 71% |
| 50% | 67% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 58% | 58% |
| 17% | 25% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 8% | 8% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 17% |
| 46% | 50% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 58% | 50% |
| 21% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 17% | 33% |
| 33% | 25% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 42% | 29% |
| 4.7 | 5.2 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 4.8 | 5.4 |
| 5.7 | 5.1 | 2.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 5.1 | 4.5 |
| 1.9 | 1.9 | 3.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.2 | 14.1 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 9.8 | 12 |
| 4.3 | 4.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
| 30% | 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 32% |
| 13.3 | 10.5 | 11.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.5 | 14.1 | 11.9 |
| 4.5 | 3.4 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 6 | 5 |
- Real Salt Lake have the most clean sheets (8) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Seattle Sounders haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 23 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 48 | 24 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 24 | 51 |
| 2 | Austin | 24 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 50 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 16 | 19 | 45 |
| 3 | Dallas | 25 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 34 | 27 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 36 |
| 4 | Minnesota United | 24 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 38 | 34 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 4 | 35 |
| 5 | Real Salt Lake | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 31 | 33 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 22 | -2 | 34 |
| 6 | Portland Timbers | 25 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 41 | 37 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 22 | 4 | 33 |
| 7 | Nashville SC | 25 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 33 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 19 | -1 | 33 |
| 8 | Seattle Sounders | 24 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 31 | 29 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| 9 | LA Galaxy | 23 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 32 | 32 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 30 |
| 10 | Colorado Rapids | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 34 | 36 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 25 | -2 | 30 |
| 11 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 39 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 24 | -12 | 30 |
| 12 | Houston Dynamo | 24 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 29 | 39 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 25 | -10 | 25 |
| 13 | SJ Earthquakes | 24 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 39 | 49 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 22 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 27 | -10 | 24 |
| 14 | Sporting KC | 25 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 44 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 29 | -21 | 23 |
