SJ Earthquakes vs Vancouver Whitecaps pre-match information

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sun 05.March
Match begins: 03:30 (UTC)
Venue: Avaya Stadium (18000 seats)

After the first round it's SJ Earthquakes - Vancouver Whitecaps 0-0 in points. Who will prevail in this second Major League Soccer game of the season?

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps 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 2-8-12 (win-draw-loss) from 22 matches.

These teams have little in common geographically as Vancouver Whitecaps have to travel 1500 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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SJ Earthquakes form and stats

The previous season, SJ Earthquakes's league stats were 8 wins, 11 draws and 15 losses, results that produced 14th position in the Major League Soccer. During these 34 matches they scored {52 goals} and let in 69. Performing as the home team in the former season SJ Earthquakes delivered 7-6-4 (win-draw-lost) with {31 goals} and 27 conceded.

SJ Earthquakes are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Atlanta United. Heartbreak for Earthquakes in their last match as Atlanta United's Almada scored the winning goal deep into overtime. Ebobisse, a natural forward, was the top performer for the team in that game, collecting a rating of 7.83 (out of 10). Ebobisse scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that, SJ Earthquakes played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Seattle Sounders.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Earthquakes have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 2 and lost 4.

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Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats

Let's have a look at how Vancouver Whitecaps performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 10th position in the league table after playing out 12 victories, 7 draws and 15 defeats. In total they scored 40 and conceded {57 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 4 and lost 11 with 15/37 goals scored/conceded.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus Real Salt Lake with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Midfield player Gauld was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.81/10. Gauld hit seven key passes and had 34 successful passes (of 40 total).

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Minnesota United wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

Vancouver Whitecaps are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

A quick return to home after this game, as Vancouver are hosting Real Espana in the CONCACAF Champions League only four days away.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): SJ Earthquakes five wins, three draws and Vancouver Whitecaps two victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

SJ EarthquakesJ. Ebobisse
J. Ebobisse
1 goals

SJ Earthquakes missing players

Vancouver Whitecaps missing players

Total First Half Second Half
SJ Earthquakes Vancouver Whitecaps
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
1 0 0 Scored S 0 0 1
2 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 2
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
3 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 10
8 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 6
2 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 18
4 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 7
25% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 14%
 
20 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 11
5 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 7
SJ Earthquakes Last season Vancouver Whitecaps
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
8 7   Won W   2 12
11 6   Drew D   4 7
15 4   Lost L   11 15
52 31   Scored S   15 40
69 27   Conceded C   37 57
97% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 94%
85% 88%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   94% 82%
68% 65%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   59% 62%
50% 47%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   35% 29%
32% 24%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   6% 9%
68% 76%   BTTS BTTS   59% 56%
12% 18%   Clean Sheets C S   12% 26%
24% 6%   Failed to Score F T   29% 24%
 
5.5 6.5   Corners for (avg) C F   4.8 4.5
5 4.8   Corners against (avg) C A   5.5 4.9
1.9 2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.2 2
1 1   Red cards R C   2 3
 
13.4 15.4   Shots (avg) S (   11 11.4
4.4 5.1   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.4 3.8
35% 36%   Goal Efficiency G E   26% 31%
 
14.2 12.1   Shots against (avg) S A   14.6 13.5
5.6 4.6   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.6 4.1

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Saint Louis City 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 3
2 Real Salt Lake 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
3 Minnesota United 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
4 Austin 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
5 Vancouver Whitecaps 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
6 SJ Earthquakes 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
7 Houston Dynamo 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
8 Dallas 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
9 Portland Timbers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Sporting KC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 LA Galaxy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Colorado Rapids 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Seattle Sounders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Los Angeles FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Last season 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 34 21 4 9 66 38 17 13 2 2 39 15 17 8 2 7 27 23 28 67
2 Austin 34 16 8 10 65 49 17 8 6 3 42 23 17 8 2 7 23 26 16 56
3 Dallas 34 14 11 9 48 37 17 10 4 3 28 15 17 4 7 6 20 22 11 53
4 Nashville SC 34 13 11 10 52 41 17 6 6 5 30 21 17 7 5 5 22 20 11 50
5 LA Galaxy 34 14 8 12 58 51 17 8 4 5 35 25 17 6 4 7 23 26 7 50
6 Minnesota United 34 14 6 14 48 51 17 8 5 4 27 20 17 6 1 10 21 31 -3 48
7 Real Salt Lake 34 12 11 11 43 45 17 9 5 3 27 15 17 3 6 8 16 30 -2 47
8 Portland Timbers 34 11 13 10 53 53 17 8 6 3 28 19 17 3 7 7 25 34 0 46
9 Colorado Rapids 34 11 10 13 46 57 17 10 5 2 29 15 17 1 5 11 17 42 -11 43
10 Vancouver Whitecaps 34 12 7 15 40 57 17 10 3 4 25 20 17 2 4 11 15 37 -17 43
11 Seattle Sounders 34 12 5 17 47 46 17 9 3 5 29 19 17 3 2 12 18 27 1 41
12 Sporting KC 34 11 7 16 42 54 17 9 2 6 25 17 17 2 5 10 17 37 -12 40
13 Houston Dynamo 34 10 6 18 43 56 17 6 5 6 24 22 17 4 1 12 19 34 -13 36
14 SJ Earthquakes 34 8 11 15 52 69 17 7 6 4 31 27 17 1 5 11 21 42 -17 35

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Saint Louis City 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 3
2 Real Salt Lake 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
3 Minnesota United 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
4 Austin 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
5 Vancouver Whitecaps 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
6 SJ Earthquakes 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
7 Houston Dynamo 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
8 Dallas 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
9 Portland Timbers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Sporting KC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 LA Galaxy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Colorado Rapids 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Seattle Sounders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Los Angeles FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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