San Jose Earthquakes vs Real Salt Lake Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

San Jose Earthquakes

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San Jose Earthquakes head into this game coming off the back of a 1-1 MLS drawn result versus FC Dallas.

In that match, San Jose Earthquakes had 41% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for San Jose Earthquakes was Alanís (6'). FC Dallas got 17 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Pepi (50') was the scorer for FC Dallas.

It’s been all too rare in recent times that San Jose Earthquakes have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that San Jose Earthquakes have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 5 goals during that time.

Real Salt Lake

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Since a loss in their previous game against Los Angeles FC in MLS competition, Real Salt Lake and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Real Salt Lake managed 58% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. For Real Salt Lake, the goals were scored by Kreilach (28'), Julio (48') and Datković (59' Own goal). At the other end, Los Angeles FC had 12 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Arango (1', 30') scored for Los Angeles FC.

Over the course of their previous six outings, Real Salt Lake have bagged the sum of 10 goals. Real Salt Lake have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. During that period, they’ve seen 12 goals go into their own net. We will find out if that trend will end up being continued on here.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head meetings going back to 29/07/2018 shows us that San Jose Earthquakes have won 4 of these and Real Salt Lake 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A total of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 10 from Quakes and 4 netted by Claret and Cobalt. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was MLS match day 4 on 08/05/2021 which ended up with the score at Real Salt Lake 1-2 San Jose Earthquakes.

In that match, Real Salt Lake had 41% possession and 15 shots on goal with 4 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Rubin (43').

San Jose Earthquakes had 15 shots at goal with 6 on target. Wondolowski (83', 87') scored.

The referee was Fotis Bazakos.

📰 Team News: San Jose Earthquakes

The San Jose Earthquakes manager Matías Almeyda has zero fitness worries at all before this clash with a completely injury-free squad to choose from.

📰 Team News: Real Salt Lake

Due to a mostly full-strength group, there’s just the sole fitness issue for the Real Salt Lake gaffer Pablo Mastroeni to contend with. Andrew Brody (Unknown Injury) won’t be playing here.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Real Salt Lake will likely be able to find the net against this San Jose Earthquakes lineup, but that isn’t expected to be enough to avoid a loss.

We think that it’s going to be a 2-1 victory for San Jose Earthquakes at the end of the match. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

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

Peter Guest, 10:38 12/09/2021