Real Salt Lake vs Seattle Sounders Betting Tips & Predictions

Real Salt Lake’s 2-2 draw at Orlando City last weekend will feel like a defeat. A brace from Joao Plata had put the visitors two goals to the good, but goals in the 94th and 95th minute from Orlando City saw them stage a miraculous comeback to rob Real Salt Lake of the three points.

There are positives to be taken from this opening match though. They performed well away from home and will be confident of putting in a challenge for the playoff spots in the MLS after last season’s failure.

Seattle Sounders’ opening MLS game was a much more low key affair. A 73rd minute goal from Nuno Coelho was enough to settle a tie that lacked any other talking points apart from right back Oniel Fisher’s red card shortly before half time.

This makes it three defeats and one draw in Seattle Sounders’ last four competitive matches, although their hosts aren’t looking particularly good either. Real Salt Lake have only won one of their last seven in all competitions and have lost four times during that run.

Seattle Sounders have lost their last three away matches on the bounce and have only won one of their last 16 on the road, and they’re coming up against a Real Salt Lake side who have won four of their last seven on home turf. In addition, the hosts looked really impressive last weekend before their late lapse in concentration, whilst the visitors struggled to stamp any sort of mark on the match.

This makes odds of 1.950 for a Real Salt Lake 0.0, -0.5 Asian Handicap Win look excellent value, and I’m backing that along with a 2-0 correct score prediction at 9/1.