📊 Form Guide

Los Angeles Galaxy

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Los Angeles Galaxy will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 1-0 MLS defeat in their last game at the hands of Austin FC.

In that game, Los Angeles Galaxy had 49% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Austin FC got 17 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Brandon Vázquez (81') was the scorer for Austin FC.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Los Angeles Galaxy have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Los Angeles Galaxy have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 9 goals during that time.

Portland Timbers

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In their last fixture, Portland Timbers drew 3-3 in the MLS match with Los Angeles FC.

In that game, Portland Timbers had 39% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Portland Timbers, the goalscorers were Felipe Mora (8', 66') and Santiago Moreno (42'). Los Angeles FC got 19 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Olivier Giroud (45'), David Martínez (64') and Denis Bouanga (90') scored for Los Angeles FC.

Demonstrating their fondness for productive matches, goals have been scored 21 times in the previous 6 games in which Portland Timbers have sent out their troops, giving a mean average of 3.5 goals each fixture. Opposing teams have hit 7 of these goals. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if that pattern might be replicated in this match.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels going back to 18/06/2022, there has been little to separate the clubs with Los Angeles Galaxy winning 1 of those games, Portland Timbers 1 and 4 being drawn in regulation time.

An aggregate of 21 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 10 of them for The Galactics and 11 for The Timbers. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.5.

The previous league meeting featuring the two was MLS match day 6 on 16/03/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Portland Timbers 1-1 Los Angeles Galaxy.

That time, Portland Timbers had 48% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer was Felipe Mora (49').

Los Angeles Galaxy had 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Christian Ramirez (81') was the scorer.

The referee was Lukasz Szpala.

🗞️ Team News: Los Angeles Galaxy

Marco Reus (Knee injury), Maya Yoshida (Muscle injury), Riqui Puig (Cruciate ligament tear) and Mauricio Cuevas (Muscle injury) will not be able to play for Los Angeles Galaxy gaffer Greg Vanney.

In our view, The Galactics look set to employ a 4-2-3-1 system for this one featuring John McCarthy, Miki Yamane, Zanka, Carlos Garcés, John Nelson, Isaiah Parente, Edwin Cerrillo, Gabriel Pec, Diego Fagundez, Joseph Paintsil and Christian Ramirez.

📰 Team News: Portland Timbers

We are inclined to think that The Timbers could decide to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, giving starts to James Pantemis, Juan Mosquera, Finn Surman, Kamal Miller, Jimer Fory, Joao Ortiz, David Ayala, Santiago Moreno, David Costa, Ariel Lassiter and Felipe Mora.

💡 Prediction

For this match, we think that Portland Timbers have the capability to get a goal against this Los Angeles Galaxy lineup, although it might not quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We reckon that it will be a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of the 90 minutes. Definitely a tough call.

Renata Leite, 00:01 28/04/2025