Real Salt Lake vs Colorado Rapids Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake head into this game coming off the back of a 2-2 MLS drawn game against Los Angeles Galaxy.

For Real Salt Lake, the goalscorers were Rusnák (9') and Chang (26'). Vázquez (33') and Raveloson (77') scored for Los Angeles Galaxy.

It has not been often in recent times that Real Salt Lake have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Claret and Cobalt have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 8 goals along the way.

Colorado Rapids

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Colorado Rapids go into this match after a 2-0 MLS win with the downing of FC Dallas in their last match.

In that match, Colorado Rapids had 45% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Colorado Rapids, goals were scored by Abubakar (48') and Barrios (55'). For their opponents, FC Dallas got 10 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

In their previous six outings, Colorado Rapids have bagged a tally of 9 goals. Rapids have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they have seen 5 goals go into their own net. Nevertheless, time will tell whether the trend shall be replicated here in this game.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 12/05/2019 shows us that Real Salt Lake have won 5 of these & Colorado Rapids 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.

21 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 13 of them from Claret and Cobalt and 8 created by Rapids. The average goals per game has been 3.5.

The last league fixture between these clubs was MLS match day 10 on 13/09/2020 when it finished Real Salt Lake 0-5 Colorado Rapids.

The referee was Ramy Touchan.

📋 Team News: Real Salt Lake

Real Salt Lake manager Freddy Juarez will be thankful to have no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this match owing to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Colorado Rapids

Thanks to a largely available group, there is just the one fitness problem for the Colorado Rapids manager Robin Fraser to be concerned with. Younes Namli (Unknown Injury) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Colorado Rapids could find themselves up against it to breach the defence of this Real Salt Lake lineup who should be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We therefore see a hard-fought 1-0 winning margin for Real Salt Lake at the end of the 90.

Let’s see how it plays out.

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Renata Leite, 10:16 22/07/2021