📊 Form Guide

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake prepare for this game after a 1-1 MLS draw vs FC Dallas.

In that match, Real Salt Lake had 50% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Real Salt Lake was Diego Luna (24'). For their opponents, FC Dallas got 8 shots on goal with 2 on target. Anderson Julio (53') scored for FC Dallas.

Over their preceding 6 fixtures, Pablo Mastroeni's Real Salt Lake have scored a combined total of 8 times resulting in an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.33.

Portland Timbers

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Portland Timbers come into this meeting following on from a 1-0 MLS win over Sporting Kansas City in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Portland Timbers had 49% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Portland Timbers was Santiago Moreno (10'). Sporting Kansas City got 11 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

Looking at their form, and Portland Timbers have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 13 goals in total. In defence, Portland Timbers seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels stretching back to 09/10/2022, there has been little to separate the clubs with Real Salt Lake winning 2 of those games, Portland Timbers 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 23 in total at an average of 3.83 goals per match.

The last league fixture featuring the two was MLS match day 44 on 22/09/2024 and the score finished Real Salt Lake 3-3 Portland Timbers.

That day, Real Salt Lake had 53% possession and 18 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Goals were scored by Dominik Marczuk (10'), Diego Luna (22') and Diogo Gonçalves (89').

For their opponents, Portland Timbers got 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. Antony (62'), Evander (76') and Jonathan Rodríguez (92') scored.

The referee was Tori Penso.

🗞️ Team News: Real Salt Lake

Zac MacMath (Back problems), Kobi Henry (Muscle injury) and Matthew Bell (Muscle injury) are not available for Real Salt Lake gaffer Pablo Mastroeni.

In our view, Claret and Cobalt will probably kick off with a 4-2-3-1 formation in the match and select Rafael Cabral, Noel Caliskan, Bode Hidalgo, Sam Junqua, Alexandros Katranis, Emeka Eneli, Braian Ojeda, Zavier Gozo, Diego Luna, Diogo Gonçalves and Ariath Piol.

ℹ️ Team News: Portland Timbers

We believe The Timbers seem likely to play in a 4-4-2 formation by sending out Maxime Crépeau, Juan Mosquera, Finn Surman, Kamal Miller, Claudio Bravo, Santiago Moreno, David Ayala, Joao Ortiz, Antony, Felipe Mora and David Costa.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Portland Timbers could find themselves struggling to put one past this Real Salt Lake lineup who we think will likely manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore see a narrow 1-0 winning margin for Real Salt Lake when the full-time whistle blows.

Should be an interesting one.

Victor Martins, 01:03 15/05/2025