Colorado Rapids vs Real Salt Lake Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Colorado Rapids

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Colorado Rapids will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-3 MLS loss in their previous game against Real Salt Lake.

In that game, Colorado Rapids managed 63% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For Colorado Rapids, goals were scored by Danny Wilson (33') and Lalas Abubakar (74'). At the other end, Real Salt Lake got 7 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Pablo Ruíz (12'), Danny Musovski (21') and Damir Kreilach (44') scored for Real Salt Lake.

It has been seldom in recent times where Colorado Rapids have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Colorado Rapids have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 12 goals in the process. Let’s see whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Real Salt Lake

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During their 6 latest matches, Pablo Mastroeni's Real Salt Lake have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 7 times thus giving them the goals per game average of 1.17.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head clashes dating back to 25/07/2021 tells us that Colorado Rapids have won 1 of these and Real Salt Lake 3, with the number of draws standing at 2.

21 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 8 from Rapids and 13 coming from Claret and Cobalt. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.5.

The previous league fixture between these sides was MLS match day 20 on 21/05/2023 which ended up with the score at Colorado Rapids 2-3 Real Salt Lake.

In that match, Colorado Rapids had 63% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorers were Danny Wilson (33') and Lalas Abubakar (74').

At the other end, Real Salt Lake got 7 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Pablo Ruíz (12'), Danny Musovski (21') and Damir Kreilach (44') scored.

📋 Team News: Colorado Rapids

The Colorado Rapids boss Robin Fraser will be grateful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever before this game with a fully injury-free group to pick from.

🗞️ Team News: Real Salt Lake

With a fully healthy group to choose from, the Real Salt Lake manager Pablo Mastroeni does not have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Real Salt Lake could find themselves struggling to see themselves scoring against this Colorado Rapids lineup who we reckon should just have the edge.

Our tip is therefore for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 1-0 advantage for Colorado Rapids at the conclusion of the game.

Looking forward to this.

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Victor Martins, 10:19 22/05/2023