Real Salt Lake vs Colorado Rapids Prediction: The Rapids can't match Salt Lake

Real Salt Lake and Colorado Rapids are two top teams in the western conference at the moment. They will both go head-to-head for the first time this season at the Rio Tinto Stadium, Sandy, USA. 

Real Salt Lake are top of the conference table with 25 points and Colorado Rapids are 4th with 21 points. Salt Lake will hope to continue grinding out the right results and maintain their top spot, although Minnesota United are 3 points away in second spot with 2 matches yet to play. And for the Rapids, a win would surely guarantee their spot in this round, or else they might drop into 5th place.

Real Salt Lake have proven to be a proper team and there are high expectations for this club. Salt Lake have kept an unbeaten streak in the last 9 league games and they have the opportunity to extend that run against Colorado Rapids. According to the reports, Real Salt Lake had 4 wins and 1 draw in their last 5 matches. 

Salt Lake played against the Seattle Sounders in their last match and they won 2-0. Andre Gomez gave Salt Lake the lead in the 27’ minute and in the 58’ minute, Diego Luna doubled their lead. After that, the score remained that way until the end and Salt Lake took all 3 points. According to stats, Real Salt Lake had 62% possession, 9 shots on target and 11 corners.

Colorado Rapids are not doing so great if their results are considered, but there's no reason why they can't improve in the future. They have had inconsistent results all through the season, as we can see clearly in their last 5 league games that they had 3 wins and 2 defeats. 

The Rapids managed to defeat Vancouver Whitecaps 1-0 in their last game. The Rapids got the advantage after a Vancouver player was sent off in the 45+3’ minutes for a professional handball. Rafael Navarro stepped up to take the spot kick and he made no mistake to put the Rapids ahead. In the second half, neither side could find the back of the net, and The Rapids won by just 1 goal. According to stats, Colorado Rapids had 58% possession, 4 shots on target and 8 corner kicks.

According to the h2h, in the last 20 meetings between both clubs, Real Salt Lake won 13 matches while Colorado Rapids won 4 and 3 matches ended as a draw.

Real Salt Lake are the favorites to win for obvious reasons. They are the better team and they are playing at home, which is an advantage worth considering.

Match Facts:-

Colorado Rapids are without a clean sheet in the last 11 meetings against Real Salt Lake.

Real Salt Lake scored first in the last 10 meetings.

Real Salt Lake won the first half in 6 of the last 8 meetings.

There were less than 10.5 corners in 8 of the last 10 meetings.

• 3 Way Total Real Salt Lake Over 1 Goal at 1.66 Odds
• Real Salt Lake to win and Under 4.5 Goals at 2.07 Odds
• Real Salt Lake to win at 1.70 Odds