📊 Form Guide

San Jose Earthquakes

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San Jose Earthquakes will be hoping to bounce back here following a 2-1 MLS defeat last time out to Sporting Kansas City.

In that match, San Jose Earthquakes managed 49% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The scorer for San Jose Earthquakes was Vitor Costa (11'). Sporting Kansas City got 5 shots on goal with 3 on target. Dany Rosero (18') and Alán Pulido (29') scored for Sporting Kansas City.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that San Jose Earthquakes have shown defensive steel. In fact, San Jose Earthquakes have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 10 goals during that time.

Seattle Sounders FC

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In the game prior to this, Seattle Sounders FC drew 1-1 in the MLS match with Colorado Rapids.

In that game, Seattle Sounders FC managed 48% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Seattle Sounders FC was Raúl Ruidíaz (11'). For their opponents, Colorado Rapids got 17 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. Kévin Cabral (87') was the scorer for Colorado Rapids.

It has become apparent that Seattle Sounders FC have suffered from a shortage of goals over their previous 6 encounters, contributing the disappointing return of only 4. In those fixtures, The Sounders have also seen the overall goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 7. That kind of trend might not be sustained into this next game, though.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 30/09/2021 tells us that San Jose Earthquakes have won 3 of these & Seattle Sounders FC 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 overall at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league contest between the two was MLS match day 33 on 13/07/2023 and the score finished San Jose Earthquakes 2-0 Seattle Sounders FC.

On that day, San Jose Earthquakes had 38% possession and 15 shots at goal with 3 on target. The goalscorers were Cristian Espinoza (19') and Miguel Trauco (65').

Seattle Sounders FC had 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Fotis Bazakos.

📋 Team News: San Jose Earthquakes

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the sole fitness concern for the San Jose Earthquakes gaffer Luchi Gonzalez to be concerned about from of an almost fully healthy group. JT Marcinkowski (Knee injury) misses out.

In all likelihood, Quakes will probably go for a 4-3-3 system for this game, utilising William Yarbrough, Paul Marie, Rodrigues, Bruno Wilson, Vitor, Jackson Yueill, Alfredo Morales, Niko Tsakiris, Cristian Espinoza, Preston Judd and Benjamin Kikanovic.

📋 Team News: Seattle Sounders FC

Owing to a fully healthy squad available to choose from, the Seattle Sounders FC boss Brian Schmetzer has no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game. The players who will not be able to play in this game through being suspended are Josh Atencio and Raúl Ruidíaz.

We’re of the thinking that The Sounders seem most likely to make use of a 4-4-2 system, starting the game with Stefan Frei, Alex Roldan, Yeimar Gomez, Jackson Ragen, Nouhou Tolo, Dylan Teves, Sota Kitahara, Danny Leyva, Cristian Roldan, Raul Ruidiaz and Jordan Morris.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Seattle Sounders FC and San Jose Earthquakes may well both score, with little between these two teams.

Shouldn’t be much in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. We’re therefore seeing a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 score at the conclusion of the game.

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

Peter Guest, 02:03 24/03/2024