Major League Soccer: SJ Earthquakes - Vancouver Whitecaps news and numbers

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.

SJ Earthquakes's stadium has a grass surface. Vancouver Whitecaps have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Vancouver Whitecaps when playing on grass; 5 wins, 11 draws and 18 losses from 34 matches. They have scored 33 goals in these games and conceded 66.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Vancouver Whitecaps, who are travelling more than 1500 kilometers to play this game.

SJ Earthquakes form and stats

The total Major League Soccer results at home this season for SJ Earthquakes are 5-3-7 (wins-draws-losses).

A nice win for Earthquakes last time playing, versus Austin. That was also a home game and the match ended 4-0 with Javier López, Chris Wondolowski, Carlos Fierro and Benjamin Kikanovic scoring for the victors. As mentioned above, SJ Earthquakes "killed" Austin in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. Defender Nathan Cardoso got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.84/10. Cardoso won 11 of 17 duels.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Los Angeles FC (1-3).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Earthquakes handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are eight wins, two draws and three defeats.

The manager O. Zarif will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Portland Timbers in only four days.

A decent goal production from Earthquakes in their home games so far, with 23 goals from 15 league matches. Earthquakes have conceded 22 in these home matches.

Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats

There's been little loot from Vancouver Whitecaps's travels as they have only collected 14 points from 15 away games in the Major League Soccer. Vancouver Whitecaps only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 8 draws.

Vancouver Whitecaps play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-2 victory visiting Portland Timbers (placed 4th). An amazing comeback from Vancouver Whitecaps last time out, trailing 0-2 before rallying an inspired fight which eventually led to Cristián Dájome scoring the winning goal in the 82nd minute. The attacker Déiber Caicedo got a match rating of 7.44 in that game. Caicedo scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Sporting KC.

We have checked recent matches where Vancouver have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those five games were one victory, two draws and two defeats.

A new game in only four days for Vancouver Whitecaps, the Major League Soccer home match versus Minnesota United. Busy days.

Vancouver Whitecaps are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 18 away goals from 15 games (in the league). As for defending, Vancouver rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 26 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The most recent reported match between these participants is the Vancouver Whitecaps - Earthquakes 3-0 played not long ago this season. Previous ten meetings involving these participants: SJ Earthquakes won four, Vancouver Whitecaps triumphed in four and we saw two draws. nine games with more than 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.

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