Real Salt Lake vs Colorado Rapids Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake will be hoping for a better result after the 2-1 MLS defeat last time out to Austin FC.

In that game, Real Salt Lake managed 50% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Real Salt Lake was Kreilach (64'). Austin FC got 18 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Domínguez (17', 55') was the scorer for Austin FC.

It has been seldom in recent times where Real Salt Lake have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Real Salt Lake have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 15 goals during that time. Nevertheless, we’ll just have to find out if that trend shall be replicated here in this game.

Colorado Rapids

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Colorado Rapids go into this meeting following on from a 1-3 MLS win against Minnesota United in their previous fixture.

In that match, Colorado Rapids had 44% possession and 20 shots on goal with 12 of them on target. For Colorado Rapids, the goals were scored by Bassett (73'), Barrios (84') and Esteves (93'). Minnesota United got 16 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Hunou (8') scored for Minnesota United.

Throughout their six previous matches, Robin Fraser's Colorado Rapids have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 9 times - yielding them the goals per game average of 1.5.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 13/07/2020 tells us that Real Salt Lake have won 4 of these games & Colorado Rapids 2, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

20 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 12 of them from Claret and Cobalt and 8 for Rapids. That is an average goals per game value of 3.33.

The last league fixture featuring the two was MLS match day 28 on 22/08/2021 when the final score was Colorado Rapids 2-1 Real Salt Lake.

That time, Colorado Rapids had 48% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The goalscorers were Rubio (64') and Kaye (71').

At the other end, Real Salt Lake got 17 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Rusnák (51') was the scorer.

The referee was Drew Fischer.

🗞️ Team News: Real Salt Lake

Andrew Brody (Unknown Injury) and Christopher Garcia (Knee Injury) won’t be available for Real Salt Lake gaffer Pablo Mastroeni.

📋 Team News: Colorado Rapids

Owing to a fully healthy squad available to select from, the Colorado Rapids boss Robin Fraser has no fitness concerns to report before this clash.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Colorado Rapids and Real Salt Lake could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. We therefore see a very even match with a 1-1 score draw after 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 00:01 13/10/2021