Real Salt Lake vs Columbus Crew Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 2-0 MLS victory over San Jose Earthquakes.

In that game, Real Salt Lake had 35% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Real Salt Lake, the scorers were Marcelo Silva (22') and Jefferson Savarino (81'). For their opponents, San Jose Earthquakes got 7 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

Over their preceding six games, Pablo Mastroeni's Real Salt Lake have managed to score a combined total of 10 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match of 1.67.

Columbus Crew

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In their previous game, Columbus Crew drew 1-1 in the MLS match with Charlotte FC.

In that game, Columbus Crew had 51% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Columbus Crew was Erik Hurtado (41'). On the other side, Charlotte FC had 11 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Andre Shinyashiki (49') scored for Charlotte FC.

Looking at their form, and Columbus Crew have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 8 goals in total. At the back, Columbus Crew have seen their frailties exposed.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head meetings going back to 04/06/2014 shows that Real Salt Lake have won 1 of them and Columbus Crew 2, with the tally of draws standing at 3.

In all, 21 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 10 for Claret and Cobalt and 11 netted by The Crew. That is an average goals per game value of 3.5.

The previous league match featuring these sides was MLS match day 22 on 04/07/2019 and the score finished Real Salt Lake 1-0 Columbus Crew.

On that day, Real Salt Lake managed 55% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer was Sam Johnson (38').

For their opponents, Columbus Crew had 7 shots at goal with 0 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Victor Rivas.

🗞️ Team News: Real Salt Lake

Zack Farnsworth (Unknown Injury), Axel Kei (Unknown Injury) and Damir Kreilach (Back Injury) will not be able to play for Real Salt Lake boss Pablo Mastroeni.

It looks as if Claret and Cobalt look set to employ a 4-4-2 formation for the game, handing starts to Zac MacMath, Aaron Herrera, Justen Glad, Marcelo Silva, Andrew Brody, Jefferson Savarino, Pablo Ruiz, Jasper Löffelsend, Justin Meram, Sergio Córdova and Rubio Rubin.

📋 Team News: Columbus Crew

From our viewpoint, The Crew seem most likely to play in a 3-5-2 formation, giving starts to Eloy Room, Josh Williams, Jonathan Mensah, Milos Degenek, Steven Moreira, James Igbekeme, Darlington Nagbe, Aidan Morris, Derrick Etienne Jr., Erik Hurtado and Miguel Berry.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Columbus Crew have the ability to score a goal against this Real Salt Lake lineup, although it possibly won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We can see both teams to score in a 2-1 winning margin for Real Salt Lake at the end of the match. Looking forward to this.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 23:36 21/06/2022