📏 Form Guide

Portland Timbers

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Portland Timbers will be looking for another win after the 2-4 MLS triumph versus Sporting Kansas City.

In that game, Portland Timbers managed 54% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Portland Timbers, goals were scored by David Ayala (10') and Kevin Kelsy (26', 49'). For their opponents, Sporting Kansas City had 9 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Shapi Suleymanov (16'), Dejan Joveljić (33') and Jansen Miller (54' Own goal) scored for Sporting Kansas City.

In their prior six fixtures, Phil Neville's Portland Timbers have netted a combined total of 11 times giving them an average number of goals per match of 1.83.

Los Angeles FC

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Los Angeles FC will go into this meeting following on from a 2-1 MLS win with the eclipse of San Jose Earthquakes in their last game.

In that match, Los Angeles FC had 49% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. For Los Angeles FC, the scorers were Sergi Palencia (65') and Denis Bouanga (86'). San Jose Earthquakes got 15 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Cristian Espinoza (95') was the scorer for San Jose Earthquakes.

Steve Cherundolo's Los Angeles FC have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 8 times throughout their latest 6 matches. The overall goals that they have conceded during that period adds up to 8.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 11/05/2022 tells us that Portland Timbers have won 1 of these games and Los Angeles FC 4, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

An aggregate of 21 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 9 of them from The Timbers and 12 for LAFC. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.5.

The last league encounter featuring the two was MLS match day 14 on 28/04/2024 and the score finished Los Angeles FC 3-2 Portland Timbers.

On that day, Los Angeles FC managed 54% possession and 20 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. The goalscorers were Timothy Tillman (45') and Denis Bouanga (92').

For their opponents, Portland Timbers got 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Kamal Miller (44' Own goal), Jonathan Rodríguez (65') and Santiago Moreno (73') scored.

The referee was Ismail Elfath.

📋 Team News: Los Angeles FC

Los Angeles FC manager Steve Cherundolo has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Jeremy Ebobisse (Leg injury) and Lorenzo Dellavalle (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be making appearances.

🔮 Prediction

Our thinking is that Los Angeles FC and Portland Timbers may both struggle to make a breakthrough here.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore tipping a very competitive game with a 0-0 score when the full-time whistle blows.

Victor Martins, 02:02 20/04/2025