Here's everything you need to know, and then some, about the Vancouver Whitecaps - Real Salt Lake game!
- Vancouver Whitecaps have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have scored in all their away matches so far.
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.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Real Salt Lake have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 1-2-7 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.
It's quite the trip for Real Salt Lake when visiting Vancouver Whitecaps as the cities are 1500 kilometers apart.
Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats
2 victories, 0 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Vancouver Whitecaps have to build on here at Rio Tinto Stadium in the Major League Soccer.
Vancouver Whitecaps shared the glory with Dallas in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. Defender Andy Rose got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 8.3/10. Rose scored one goal and won 2 of 2 duels. The Vancouver goalkeeper Maxime Crépeau was crucial in the match against Dallas last time out, making seven saves.
2-2 away at Seattle Sounders before that.Vancouver are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 4 games. From these home matches, Vancouver have conceded only 3 goals.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
Things could have gone better for Real Salt Lake in their Major League Soccer away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.
Home advantage was not enough for Salt in their previous game, as they lost their Major League Soccer-match, hosting Los Angeles FC, 0-1. Midfield player Albert Rusnák was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.61/10. Rusnák hit five key passes, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 35 successful passes (of 41 total).
A draw for Salt before that, at their own venue hosting Houston Dynamo (1-1).Real Salt Lake has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games. Real Salt Lake struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 5 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Real Salt Lake - Vancouver 3-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - zero - five (Vancouver wins - draws - Real Salt Lake wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Kreilach 5 goals |   C. Dájome Arboleda 4 goals | R. Méndez Rubin 4 goals |
Vancouver Whitecaps missing players
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| Vancouver Whitecaps | Real Salt Lake | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 18 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 73% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 64% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| 36% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 33% | 30% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 55% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 18% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 27% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 4.5 | 5.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 3 | 5.7 |
| 4.5 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 15 | 10 | 6.2 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.3 | 9.8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 8.7 | 11.7 |
| 3.6 | 3.5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3 | 3.7 |
| 30% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 56% | 38% |
- All of Real Salt Lake's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Real Salt Lake have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Real Salt Lake have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Real Salt Lake have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Vancouver Whitecaps have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Major League Soccer
- Vancouver Whitecaps have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Vancouver Whitecaps 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 | Seattle Sounders | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 26 |
| 2 | Sporting KC | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 26 |
| 3 | LA Galaxy | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| 4 | Colorado Rapids | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 17 |
| 5 | Los Angeles FC | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 15 |
| 6 | Houston Dynamo | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -1 | 15 |
| 7 | Minnesota United | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -2 | 15 |
| 8 | Real Salt Lake | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | Austin | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -2 | 13 |
| 10 | Portland Timbers | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -5 | 13 |
| 11 | Dallas | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -4 | 11 |
| 12 | SJ Earthquakes | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -8 | 11 |
| 13 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 15 | -6 | 9 |