📏 Form Guide

Vancouver Whitecaps

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Vancouver Whitecaps will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-3 CONCACAF Champions League triumph against Inter Miami.

For Vancouver Whitecaps, the scorers were Brian White (51'), Pedro Vite (53') and Sebastian Berhalter (71'). Jordi Alba (9') scored for Inter Miami.

Over their past 6 fixtures, Jesper Sørensen's Vancouver Whitecaps have scored a combined total of 14 times - an average number of goals per match equal to 2.33.

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake will go into this game following on from a 1-3 MLS win as they beat San Diego FC in their previous outing.

In that game, Real Salt Lake had 43% possession and 10 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Real Salt Lake, the goalscorers were Diego Luna (45', 54') and Sam Junqua (66'). San Diego FC had 14 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Hirving Lozano (45') was the scorer for San Diego FC.

The numbers tell their own story, and Real Salt Lake have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 7 goals in total. At the back, Real Salt Lake have not been doing too well. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, however.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 04/06/2022 shows that Vancouver Whitecaps have won 1 of them and Real Salt Lake 4, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A total of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 for Caps and 10 coming from Claret and Cobalt. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league match featuring these sides was MLS match day 50 on 20/10/2024 when the final score was Real Salt Lake 2-1 Vancouver Whitecaps.

On that occasion, Real Salt Lake had 57% possession and 8 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player to score was Diego Luna (73').

On the other side, Vancouver Whitecaps got 5 shots on goal with 0 of them on target. Ryan Gauld (58') and Isaac Boehmer (83' Own goal) scored.

The match was refereed by Armando Villareal.

📰 Team News: Vancouver Whitecaps

Jayden Nelson (Muscle injury), Mathías Laborda (Muscle injury), Sam Adekugbe (Hamstring injury) and Ryan Gauld (Knee injury) will be missing for Vancouver Whitecaps gaffer Jesper Sørensen.

In all likelihood, Caps could line up in a 4-4-2 formation for this one, utilising Yohei Takaoka, Édier Ocampo, Tristan Blackmon, Ranko Veselinovic, Tate Johnson, Pedro Vite, Andres Cubas, Sebastian Berhalter, Ali Ahmed, Emmanuel Sabbi and Daniel Rios.

ℹ️ Team News: Real Salt Lake

Real Salt Lake boss Pablo Mastroeni has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Johnny Russell (Groin injury), Matthew Bell (Muscle injury), Kobi Henry (Muscle injury) and Zac MacMath (Back problems) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

There’s a good chance that Claret and Cobalt appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Rafael Cabral, Sam Junqua, Luis Rivera, Philip Quinton, Alexandros Katranis, Braian Ojeda, Emeka Eneli, Zavier Gozo, Diego Luna, Diogo Gonçalves and Ariath Piol.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that Vancouver Whitecaps should get the goals that they need when they play Real Salt Lake, who could well struggle getting on the scoresheet.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a fairly comfortable 2-0 winning score for Vancouver Whitecaps when the full-time whistle blows.

Renata Leite, 01:01 04/05/2025