National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Portland Timbers or Real Salt Lake that keep their silverware dream alive.
Real Salt Lake play their home matches on grass, while this fixture will take place on artifical turf. Up to date results for Real Salt Lake when featuring on artifical turf are 3 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats from twelve matches. They have managed to score {13 goals} and conceded 25 times in these fixtures.
It's quite the trip for Real Salt Lake when visiting Portland Timbers as the cities are 1200 kilometers apart.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Portland and Real Salt Lake.
Portland Timbers form and stats
Portland Timbers participated in US Open Cup the last season, where they reached the round of 32.The spoils were shared in Portland Timbers's previous game, also at home. Visiting Austin travelled back with a draw after a 2-2 scoreline. Defender Mabiala got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.63/10. Mabiala won 10 of 15 duels.
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Saint Louis City.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Portland Timbers handle that role? We have found 23 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 14 wins, 7 draws and 2 defeats.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Vancouver Whitecaps are coming to town in three days.
Portland have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and four practice matches played. These training games have ended with 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Portland Timbers scored {8 goals} and let in {3 goals} during these four games.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
Real Salt Lake's mission in US Open Cup last season failed in the 3rd round.Real Salt Lake has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Houston Dynamo for a 0-0 draw. Midfield player Ojeda was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.64/10. Ojeda hit two key passes and had 29 successful passes (of 33 total).
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Seattle Sounders in the Major League Soccer.We have checked recent matches where Salt have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 18 games were 3 victories, 5 draws and 10 defeats.
A new game in only three days for Real Salt Lake, the Major League Soccer home match versus Los Angeles FC. Busy days.
Just as the home team, Real Salt Lake have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 2 Real Salt Lake wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Portland Timbers victories, two draws and three Real Salt Lake wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Savarino Quintero 3 goals |   J. Mosquera 2 goals |
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| Portland Timbers | Real Salt Lake | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 38 | 18 | Scored | S | 14 | 37 | ||
| 38 | 10 | Conceded | C | 21 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 64% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 64% | ||
| 40% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 76% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 32% | ||
| 3.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.2 | ||
| 5.8 | 6.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 3.8 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9.9 | 12.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.1 | 13.2 | ||
| 3.7 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 5 | ||
| 39% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 18% | 29% | ||
| 13.3 | 12.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.6 | 12.9 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.1 | 4.6 | ||
