Vancouver Whitecaps are leaning on their home crowd to assist them in this game with Real Salt Lake. Who will win at BC Place Stadium?
- Vancouver Whitecaps have the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have the most scored goals in the first half (17) in Major League Soccer
Vancouver have less rest than Real Salt Lake in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Championship game only three days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Pacific.
Real Salt Lake play their home matches on grass, while this game occurs on artifical turf. Recent results for Real Salt Lake when playing on artifical turf are 1 win, 2 draws and 8 defeats from eleven matches. They have scored 9 goals and conceded 22 times in these games.
These teams have little in common geographically as Real Salt Lake have to travel 1500 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats
When playing at home in the Major League Soccer, Vancouver Whitecaps have managed 4 wins, 2 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 9 games.
No payout for Vancouver in their previous match, an away game at Pacific that ended in defeat 3-4. A goal frenzy last time out for Vancouver, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Pacific. Fun stuff to watch!
Ahead of that match, Vancouver won a home game hosting Los Angeles FC (2-1).The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Vancouver Whitecaps have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won three, drawn one and lost zero.
Vancouver Whitecaps has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. 11 goals have been conceded.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
Real Salt Lake have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Major League Soccer, after 2-2-5 (9 played). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Real Salt Lake's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Salt lost away at Colorado Rapids (1-2) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Albert Rusnák, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.43. Rusnák scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 44 successful passes (of 51 total).
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Houston Dynamo.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by Salt in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Real Salt Lake, zero draws and one defeat.
The visiting Real Salt Lake have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 9 games. As opposed to that, Real Salt Lake have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The two duelists also played each other previously this campaign: Vancouver - Real Salt Lake 0-4. Statistics for the preceeding ten meetings featuring these two crews are: four wins for Vancouver, zero draws and six wins for Real Salt Lake. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.Top Goalscorers
  C. Dájome Arboleda 8 goals |   D. Kreilach 8 goals | A. Rusnák 5 goals |
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| Vancouver Whitecaps | Real Salt Lake | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 20 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 23 | 10 | 3 | Scored | S | 3 | 13 | 30 |
| 30 | 11 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 13 | 23 |
| 90% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 89% | 90% |
| 75% | 67% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 78% | 75% |
| 65% | 56% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 78% | 65% |
| 35% | 22% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 30% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 5% |
| 60% | 44% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 67% | 65% |
| 20% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 22% | 25% |
| 30% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 22% | 20% |
| 5 | 5.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 5.7 | 5.8 |
| 4.7 | 3.4 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 12.3 | 7.7 | 6.2 |
| 1.9 | 1.6 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 3.3 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.7 | 10.4 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 12.6 | 12.5 |
| 3.6 | 2.7 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
| 32% | 42% | 75% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 35% | 35% |
- Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Real Salt Lake have the most matches over the total-line (12) in Major League Soccer
- Real Salt Lake have the most scored goals in the first half (17) in Major League Soccer
- Vancouver Whitecaps have the fewest scored goals (10) at home in Major League Soccer
- Vancouver Whitecaps have the fewest scored goals in the first half (5) in Major League Soccer
| 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 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 35 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 18 | 42 |
| 2 | Sporting KC | 21 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 36 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 10 | 15 | 39 |
| 3 | Colorado Rapids | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 29 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 37 |
| 4 | LA Galaxy | 21 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 32 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 35 |
| 5 | Minnesota United | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 16 | -1 | 28 |
| 6 | Real Salt Lake | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 30 | 23 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 27 |
| 7 | SJ Earthquakes | 21 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 15 | -5 | 26 |
| 8 | Portland Timbers | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 27 | 39 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 24 | -12 | 24 |
| 9 | Los Angeles FC | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 25 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 14 | -3 | 23 |
| 10 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 23 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 19 | -7 | 23 |
| 11 | Dallas | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 25 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 19 | -5 | 22 |
| 12 | Austin | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 14 | -7 | 19 |
| 13 | Houston Dynamo | 21 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 23 | 32 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 21 | -9 | 19 |