California games on as SJ Earthquakes invites LA Galaxy over for Major League Soccer meet

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Date: Sun 30.June
Match begins: 02:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stanford Stadium

SJ Earthquakes will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 6 points behind LA Galaxy.

Any soccer match between LA Galaxy and San Jose Earthquakes is called the California Clasico and is considered one of the most historical and intense rivalries in American soccer. As the name suggest, both teams come from Californian cities. It's Northern California vs Southern California with its cultural differences, and this north vs south rivalry also applies to other sports.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for SJ Earthquakes and LA Galaxy.

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SJ Earthquakes form and stats

The story so far for SJ Earthquakes at their home stadium (Stanford Stadium) is 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. It’s been three wins in a row for SJ Earthquakes here at Stanford Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

The SJ Earthquakes supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer and win 3-0. Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Houston Dynamo.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from SJ Earthquakes's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played one game, won 0 matches, drawn 1 and lost 0.

The SJ Earthquakes manager M. Almeyda has got the team scoring with 20 from 10 home games. SJ Earthquakes's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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LA Galaxy form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats.

Two away games in a row for LA Galaxy, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-3 versus SJ Earthquakes in the Major League Soccer. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Cincinnati at their stadium, the result 2-0.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of LA Galaxy when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing 1 time, drawing 0 and winning 3 games.

LA Galaxy find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 10 goals from 9 away fixtures. As opposed to that, LA Galaxy have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: SJ Earthquakes - LA Galaxy 3-0. SJ Earthquakes-LA Galaxy H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: SJ Earthquakes 5 wins, LA Galaxy 2 wins, 3 draws. 7 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

V. Qazaishvili
3 goals
M. Eriksson
1 goals

SJ Earthquakes missing players

LA Galaxy missing players

SJ Earthquakes LA Galaxy
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
17 10 2 Played 1 9 18
7 6 0 Won 0 4 10
4 1 1 Drew 1 1 1
6 3 1 Lost 0 4 7
28 20 2 Scored 0 10 24
27 14 7 Conceded 0 11 22
94% 100% 100% Over 0.5 0% 89% 94%
88% 90% 100% Over 1.5 0% 78% 83%
76% 80% 100% Over 2.5 0% 33% 50%
41% 40% 100% Over 3.5 0% 22% 17%
24% 30% 50% Over 4.5 0% 11% 11%
59% 40% 50% BTTS 0% 22% 44%
29% 40% 0% Clean Sheets 100% 56% 33%
18% 20% 50% Failed To Score 100% 33% 28%
 
5.8 6 5 Corners For (avg) 6 5.2 5.8
5.5 5 5 Corners Against (avg) 13 5.4 4.9
2.3 2.2 2 Yellow Cards (avg) 2 2.1 1.9
2 1 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • SJ Earthquakes have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • SJ Earthquakes haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

SJ Earthquakes
08-06-19 MLS SJ Earthquakes 2 - 2 Dallas
12-06-19 UOC SJ Earthquakes 4 - 3 Sacramento Republic
21-06-19 UOC Los Angeles FC 3 - 1 SJ Earthquakes
27-06-19 MLS SJ Earthquakes 2 - 0 Houston Dynamo
30-06-19 MLS SJ Earthquakes 3 - 0 LA Galaxy
04-07-19 MLS Minnesota United 00:00 SJ Earthquakes
07-07-19 MLS SJ Earthquakes 02:30 Real Salt Lake
13-07-19 MLS LA Galaxy 03:00 SJ Earthquakes
17-07-19 CF SJ Earthquakes 02:15 Real Valladolid
21-07-19 MLS Vancouver Whitecaps 02:00 SJ Earthquakes
LA Galaxy
03-06-19 MLS LA Galaxy 1 - 2 New England
13-06-19 UOC LA Galaxy 3 - 0 Orange County FC
20-06-19 UOC Portland Timbers 4 - 0 LA Galaxy
22-06-19 MLS Cincinnati 0 - 2 LA Galaxy
30-06-19 MLS SJ Earthquakes 3 - 0 LA Galaxy
05-07-19 MLS LA Galaxy 02:30 Toronto
13-07-19 MLS LA Galaxy 03:00 SJ Earthquakes
20-07-19 MLS LA Galaxy 02:00 Los Angeles FC
28-07-19 MLS Portland Timbers 02:30 LA Galaxy
03-08-19 MLS Atlanta United 21:00 LA Galaxy

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Los Angeles FC 17 11 4 2 39 14 8 7 1 0 20 6 9 4 3 2 19 8 25 37
2 LA Galaxy 18 10 1 7 24 22 9 6 0 3 14 11 9 4 1 4 10 11 2 31
3 Seattle Sounders 17 8 5 4 27 21 9 7 2 0 17 7 8 1 3 4 10 14 6 29
4 Dallas 18 7 5 6 27 24 10 5 4 1 16 10 8 2 1 5 11 14 3 26
5 SJ Earthquakes 17 7 4 6 28 27 10 6 1 3 20 14 7 1 3 3 8 13 1 25
6 Minnesota United 17 7 3 7 30 26 8 4 3 1 16 8 9 3 0 6 14 18 4 24
7 Houston Dynamo 16 7 3 6 22 22 9 6 3 0 16 9 7 1 0 6 6 13 0 24
8 Real Salt Lake 17 7 2 8 24 28 7 5 0 2 13 8 10 2 2 6 11 20 -4 23
9 Vancouver Whitecaps 19 4 8 7 21 25 10 3 4 3 10 11 9 1 4 4 11 14 -4 20
10 Sporting KC 17 4 7 6 27 29 8 3 3 2 19 15 9 1 4 4 8 14 -2 19
11 Colorado Rapids 18 5 4 9 28 36 10 4 2 4 19 20 8 1 2 5 9 16 -8 19
12 Portland Timbers 15 5 2 8 24 28 2 1 0 1 6 3 13 4 2 7 18 25 -4 17