Apart from the Los Angeles Galaxy – San Jose Earthquakes match, a match of two leaders of the Western Conference will be held on the upcoming Monday within another round of the MLS: Seattle Sounders will host Portland Timbers. Bookmakers have set Seattle as the clear favorites in this couple, Sounders perform great at their home ground, while Timbers have constant problems in away games.
Seattle Sounders have managed to gain 41 point within 26 played MLS rounds. Such amount of gained points corresponds to the first place on the West. Within the last five matches, Sounders won thrice with two draws. The splits of points happened in the matches against Vancouver and Los Angeles Galaxy, the victories were over Minnesota Stars twice and Kansas City. Seattle have had 12 domestic matches within the 2017 MLS season, in which they got 12 victories with three ties and one defeat.
Portland are losing one point to Seattle, plus Timbers have one played championship game more, i.e. the future guests are four points behind Sounders. Portland have had 13 matches away within the 2017 MLS season, in which three wins with three ties and seven losses are registered. Timbers away statistics isn’t very good and it is hard to count on a victory in Seattle with such numbers.
Seattle are a strong domestic team, which is steadily moving towards its goal, winning the conference, to be exact. Portland, in their turn, will put maximum effort not to lose the forthcoming encounter, but it will be hard to achieve.
Prediction for the match: Seattle Sounders to win
