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Major League Soccer10/25/2026, 01:30 AM

Real Salt Lake – St. Louis City3 : 0

Why the model thinks so

Real Salt Lake
1.73
Total xG
3.12
St. Louis City
1.39
Expected goals from our model, before kickoff

How the model gets there: each factor adds goals to or takes goals from one team's expected goals.

FactorReal Salt LakeSt. Louis City
High-scoring league (3.2 goals/match)+0.75+0.75
Rising form (3.5 vs 1.9 season average)+0.47
4 of last 5 matches with 2+ goals (2.8 goals/match)+0.26
Standings disadvantage (pos 10 vs 2, 8 places gap)−0.15
Standings advantage (pos 2 vs 10, 8 places gap)+0.05
3 of last 5 matches with 0-1 goals (1.6 goals/match)+0.03
D. Luna not in squad (5 goals, 3 assists)
11% of goal output missing (only 82% available)
Tomas Totland not in squad (3 goals, 4 assists)
Carlo Holse on the bench (6 goals, 1 assists)
Daniel Ethan Edelman on the bench (4 goals, 3 assists)
Alexandru Mățan not in squad (0 goals, 6 assists)
Weak away record (1.4 vs 1.9 goals/match)

Key factors

  • Home/Away: Real Salt Lake scores 1.87 goals per match at home in the league this season, St. Louis City concedes 1.47 away per match
  • Head-to-head: Real Salt Lake has recorded 2 wins in 5 meetings against St. Louis City with 3 draws

Risks

  • Table: St. Louis City is in 2nd place in the league this season with 51 points, Real Salt Lake is 10th with 36 points
  • Attack: St. Louis City scored 2.8 goals per match in the last 5 matches, Real Salt Lake 1.6 goals per match

All probabilities

Result
Real Salt Lake44%
Draw26%
St. Louis City30%
Double chance
Real Salt Lake or draw70%
St. Louis City or draw56%
No draw74%
Goals
Over 1.583%
Under 1.517%
Over 2.560%
Under 2.540%
Over 3.538%
Under 3.562%
Both teams score
Yes63%
No37%

xG score

1:1
From xG 1.73 : 1.39, rounded up only from .912% probability

Other likely scores

2:1
9%
1:2
7%
2:0
7%
2:2
6%
3:0
Final score

The Lab

Patterns our system found in the data.

  1. St. Louis City: 8 consecutive games with 3+ goals (last 12 games)
  2. St. Louis City: first goal in 9 of 11 games (82%)
  3. St. Louis City: 69% of all goals in the first half (22 of 32, last 12 games)
  4. St. Louis City: goal in the first 15 minutes in 6 of 12 games (50%)
  5. Real Salt Lake: opponent scores first in 8 of 12 games (67%)

Lineups

Real Salt Lake 5-4-1 · St. Louis City 3-4-3

Real Salt Lake
  • 1 R. Cabral Barbosa
  • 11 D. Marczuk
  • 44 L. De Fougerolles
  • 26 P. Quinton
  • 3 K. Henry
  • 8 J. Sanabria Magole
  • 12 S. Lobzhanidze
  • 6 S. Spierings
  • 92 N. Caliskan
  • 9 M. Guilavogui
  • 22 S. Solans Ormo
St. Louis City
  • 39 B. Lundt
  • 99 J. Orozco
  • 32 T. Baumgartl
  • 27 F. Fol
  • 6 C. Wallem
  • 18 C. Brunet
  • 8 C. Durkin
  • 20 R. Cardoso dos Santos
  • 7 T. Ostrák
  • 9 R. Navarro Leal
  • 11 S. Becher
Substitutes
  • 23 C. Booth
  • 25 C. Guske
  • 2 D. Yedlin
  • 15 J. Glad
  • 19 A. Piol
  • 29 S. Junqua
  • 31 M. Stajduhar
  • 39 A. Hezarkhani
  • 98 A. Katranis
  • 28 D. Žagar
  • 42 D. Downs
  • 21 D. Polvara
  • 19 C. Holse
  • 5 L. MacNaughton
  • 24 D. Edelman
  • 59 M. Joyner
  • 77 S. Jeong
  • 4 M. Fall
  • 31 C. Olivares

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