Real Salt Lake and SJ Earthquakes are going to face off on Saturday in the 42nd week of the Major League Soccer. The match will take place in SANDY at the Rio Tinto Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by Jon Freemon.
Real Salt Lake is 5th in the league with 41 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Dallas in its last match in the Major League Soccer. As of now, it has won 13 times, draw 6 times, and lost 12 times.
SJ Earthquakes is 10th in the league with 33 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against Portland Timbers in its last match in the Major League Soccer. As of now, it has won 9 times, draw 10 times, and lost 13 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 45.16%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 14 times, 3-4-1-2 8 times, 4-4-1-1 5 times, 4-4-2 3 times and 4-3-1-2 once.
Pablo Andrés Mastroeni is expected to play against SJ Earthquakes with the following players: D. Ochoa, E. Holt, A. Herrera, J. Glad, A. Brody, M. Chang, E. Guimaraes Bilher, P. Ruíz, A. Rusnák, R. Méndez Rubin and D. Kreilach.
The average age of Real Salt Lake would be 26.27.
Pablo Andrés Mastroeniwill probably not be able to employ M. Silva Fernández because of injury.
SJ Earthquakes
SJ Earthquakes has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (23 times or 71.88%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 23 times, 3-4-3 4 times, 3-4-2-1 2 times, 4-1-4-1 2 times and 5-4-1 once.
Omar Zarif is expected to play against Real Salt Lake with the following players: J. Marcinkowski, M. López Lanfranco, O. Alanís Pantoja, L. Abecasis, J. Yueill, J. Skahan, A. Ríos, E. Remedi, B. Kikanovic, C. Espinoza and J. Ebobisse.
The average age of SJ Earthquakes would be 25.91.
Omar Zarif will not be able to have the presence of E. Ochoa who is suspended.
