📊 Form Guide

Real Salt Lake

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Real Salt Lake go into this match following a 1-1 MLS stalemate vs Sporting Kansas City.

In that game, Real Salt Lake had 54% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 9 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Real Salt Lake was Johnny Russell (45'). On the other side, Sporting Kansas City had 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Erik Thommy (59') scored for Sporting Kansas City.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Real Salt Lake have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Real Salt Lake have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 8 goals in the process. It will be interesting to see if that trend will be sustained here.

St. Louis City

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Houston Dynamo in MLS action, St. Louis City will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, St. Louis City managed 52% possession and 7 shots on goal with 1 on target. Houston Dynamo had 18 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Ezequiel Ponce (66') was the scorer for Houston Dynamo.

The stats don’t lie, and St. Louis City have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 12 goals in all. In defence, St. Louis City seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The last league meeting between these sides was MLS match day 9 on 31/03/2024 when the final score was Real Salt Lake 3-1 St. Louis City.

On that day, Real Salt Lake had 57% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer was Cristián Arango (70', 84', 91').

St. Louis City had 9 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Indiana Vassilev (3') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Drew Fischer.

ℹ️ Team News: Real Salt Lake

Matthew Bell (Muscle injury), Emeka Eneli (Foot injury), Javain Brown (unknown injury) and Zac MacMath (Back problems) will be missing for Real Salt Lake manager Pablo Mastroeni.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that St. Louis City will likely create enough chances to find the back of the net against this Real Salt Lake lineup, but that possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.

We can see both teams to score in a 2-1 win for Real Salt Lake at the end of the 90 minutes. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Renata Leite, 01:01 06/07/2025