📊 Form Guide

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake enter this match after a 1-1 MLS stalemate against Minnesota United.

In that game, Real Salt Lake managed 41% possession and 10 shots at goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Real Salt Lake was Cristián Arango (24'). On the other side, Minnesota United got 25 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Tani Oluwaseyi (86') scored for Minnesota United.

Real Salt Lake have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They have hit an aggregate of 11 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6. We will see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Columbus Crew

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In their last game, Columbus Crew drew 1-1 in the CONCACAF Champions League tie with Tigres de la UANL.

The only name on the scoresheet from Columbus Crew was Diego Rossi (59'). André-Pierre Gignac (3') scored for Tigres de la UANL. After a tense 4-3 penalty shootout, Columbus Crew were victorious.

The stats don’t lie, and Columbus Crew have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 7 goals in total. Defensively, Columbus Crew can certainly do much better.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 28/05/2016 shows that Real Salt Lake have won 1 of them & Columbus Crew 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

A total of 19 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 7 for Claret and Cobalt and 12 belonging to The Crew. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was MLS match day 8 on 01/04/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Columbus Crew 4-0 Real Salt Lake.

That time, Columbus Crew had 59% possession and 18 shots on goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Aidan Morris (14', 53'), Lucas Zelarayán (41') and Yaw Yeboah (93').

At the other end, Real Salt Lake had 8 shots on goal with 5 on target.

The referee was Rubiel Vazquez.

ℹ️ Team News: Real Salt Lake

Pablo Ruiz (Knee injury) and Kevin Bonilla (Cruciate ligament surgery) won’t be playing for Real Salt Lake gaffer Pablo Mastroeni.

🗞️ Team News: Columbus Crew

Columbus Crew manager Wilfried Nancy has multiple availability issues to deal with. Christian Ramirez (Hamstring injury), Sean Zawadzki (concussion) and Rudy Camacho (Groin injury) are not able to play. Cucho Hernández is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

💡 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Columbus Crew will have a tough ask to break down this Real Salt Lake lineup who should be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We’re therefore tipping a very even contest with a 1-0 victory for Real Salt Lake at full-time.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Andre Moura, 01:00 14/04/2024