Top-ranking Seattle Sounders come to Vancouver Whitecaps after their 1-0-result vs Houston Dynamo. Check out our complete match preview!
- Vancouver Whitecaps have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals (18) in Major League Soccer
This pitch has the surface artifical turf, unlike Seattle Sounders's home stadium. The last eight games by the guests on artifical turf have generated 1 win, 1 draw and 6 losses.
These teams have little in common geographically as Seattle Sounders have to travel 1700 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Vancouver Whitecaps form and stats
5-4-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Major League Soccer numbers at home for Vancouver Whitecaps so far this season. Vancouver Whitecaps have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Vancouver faced defeat in their previous match, away at Sporting KC (0-3). The first setback in the shape of a defeat after going undefeated through four league games.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Los Angeles FC and winning 3-2.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 Vancouver Whitecaps have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 5 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 0 and lost 0.
Observe: 8 of the most recent 10 league matches from this football club have had at least one goal from each team.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Vancouver Whitecaps as they have a new game in only four days, a Major League Soccer match thankfully also at home. Austin are visiting.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (21 in 10 games), Vancouver Whitecaps's attacking play is working. Vancouver are not conceding a lot of goals here at BC Place Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 10 matches.
Seattle Sounders form and stats
3-2-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Seattle Sounders in their Major League Soccer matches away.
Seattle Sounders have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Stefan Frei. It's been 269 minutes since they last conceded in Major League Soccer.
Rusnák scored in Seattle Sounders's previous match, the home game against Houston Dynamo that ended 1-0. Those three points felt nice as this club had gone five league matches without winning. Midfield player Paulo was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.82/10. Paulo dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 76 successful passes (of 84 total).
Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Orlando City.Seattle Sounders are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 15 matches.
A tale of few goals? 8 of this side's most recent 10 league rounds have had two or less goals.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Major League Soccer trip to SJ Earthquakes.
Sounders have scored 11 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. 13 goals have been conceded by Seattle Sounders in these games.
Head 2 Head
Surprisingly enough, the last time the hosts kept a "clean sheet" was also versus this opposition, seven games ago (Vancouver Whitecaps - Seattle Sounders 2-0). H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Vancouver two wins, two draws and Seattle Sounders six victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Morris 9 goals |   B. White 7 goals |  R. Gauld 4 goals |
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| Vancouver Whitecaps | Seattle Sounders | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 10 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 21 |
| 6 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 30 | 21 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 11 | 25 |
| 26 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 13 | 18 |
| 89% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 89% | 81% |
| 84% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 56% | 48% |
| 53% | 40% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 44% | 38% |
| 32% | 30% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 19% |
| 21% | 30% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 14% |
| 68% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 44% | 29% |
| 26% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 22% | 52% |
| 16% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 44% | 38% |
| 6.5 | 7.4 | 10 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.1 | 5.5 |
| 5 | 3.8 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| 2.2 | 1.9 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14.3 | 16.3 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 11 | 11.9 |
| 4.9 | 5.9 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.1 | 3.7 |
| 32% | 36% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 39% | 32% |
| 12.2 | 8.9 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 4 | 13.4 | 10.6 |
| 4.2 | 2.9 | 7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 4 | 3.3 |
- Seattle Sounders have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Seattle Sounders have the fewest conceded goals (18) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have the most clean sheets (11) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have the most matches under the total-line (13) in Major League Soccer
- Seattle Sounders have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Vancouver Whitecaps have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
| 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 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 39 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 35 |
| 2 | Los Angeles FC | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 32 |
| 3 | Seattle Sounders | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 32 |
| 4 | Real Salt Lake | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 26 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 15 | -5 | 30 |
| 5 | Dallas | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 29 |
| 6 | SJ Earthquakes | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 25 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 19 | -3 | 28 |
| 7 | Houston Dynamo | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 24 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 23 | -2 | 27 |
| 8 | Austin | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -3 | 26 |
| 9 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 25 |
| 10 | Sporting KC | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 26 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -4 | 24 |
| 11 | Minnesota United | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 18 | -4 | 24 |
| 12 | Portland Timbers | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 31 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -8 | 22 |
| 13 | LA Galaxy | 19 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 18 | -13 | 16 |
| 14 | Colorado Rapids | 20 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 29 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -15 | 14 |
