Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake are going to face on Saturday the 23rd of April at 7:00 pm in the th week of the Major League Soccer. The match will be staged in Portland at the Providence Park.
Portland Timbers occupies the 9th position in the league with 10 points. It comes from a 2-3 win against Vancouver Whitecaps in its last match in the Major League Soccer. So far, it has won twice, draw 3 times, and lost twice.
Real Salt Lake occupies the 6th place in the league with 12 points. It comes from a 6-0 loss against New York City in its last match in the Major League Soccer. Until now, it has won 3 times, draw 3 times, and lost twice.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Portland Timbers
Portland Timbers has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (3 times or 42.86%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (3 times), 4-4-1-1 (2 times) and 4-2-3-1 (2 times).
Carlos Llamosa is expected to play against Real Salt Lake with the following players: A. Ivačič, C. Bravo, L. Mabiala Destin, B. Tuiloma, J. Van Rankin Galland, S. Moreno, S. Blanco and Y. Chará Zamora.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Portland Timbers would be 29.00.
There are doubts about the presence of C. Paredes Maciel, D. Chará Zamora and J. Niezgoda.
Carlos Llamosa will probably not be able to employ J. Rasmussen and D. Ayala because of injury.
G. Fochive, D. Gutiérrez and F. Mora Aliaga will definitely miss the match.
Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-2-3-1 and 3-4-2-1 (2 times or 25.00% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 3-4-3 (2 times), 4-3-3 (once) and 4-4-2 (once).
Pablo Andrés Mastroeni is expected to play against Portland Timbers with the following players: D. Ochoa, M. Silva Fernández, J. Glad, A. Herrera, T. Schmitt, P. Ruíz, S. Caldwell, J. Meram, S. Córdova Lezama and B. Wood.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Real Salt Lake would be 27.30.
There are doubts about the presence of D. Kreilach.
Z. Farnsworth, B. Halsey, E. Holt, J. Kappelhof and J. Menéndez will definitely miss the match.
