Real Salt Lake vs Los Angeles Galaxy — Major League Soccer: prediction, stats, lineups & analysis
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Real Salt Lake host Los Angeles Galaxy on MLS Matchday 34
Real Salt Lake welcome Los Angeles Galaxy to Rio Tinto Stadium on Matchday 34 of Major League Soccer, with Pablo Mastroeni's side 20th in the table on 42 points from 33 games. Greg Vanney's visitors sit 15th on 44 points, five places and two points ahead of their hosts.
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Salt Lake arrive having won three of their last five, scoring 10 goals and conceding five. They beat Austin 2-1 away on 29 October before losing 2-1 at San Jose Earthquakes on 31 October, their most recent outing. Galaxy, by contrast, have won two, drawn two and lost one of their last five, scoring 12 and conceding 11.
Galaxy's most recent result was a 4-1 home win over Austin on 31 October, which followed a 2-2 draw at Los Angeles FC on 26 October. Of Salt Lake's last five home games, they have won two, drawn one and lost two, keeping two clean sheets.
Across their last 5 meetings, Real Salt Lake won 1, Los Angeles Galaxy won 3, with 1 draw. The most recent meeting was Los Angeles Galaxy 2–1 Real Salt Lake on 26 April 2026. Real Salt Lake's latest win in this sample was Real Salt Lake 2–0 Los Angeles Galaxy on 5 April 2025.
Real Salt Lake have won three of their last five and Los Angeles Galaxy two, though Galaxy have scored 12 goals to Salt Lake's 10 and conceded 11 to their hosts' five.
Both sides have faced Austin recently: Salt Lake won 2-1 away, while Galaxy won 4-1 at home.
Real Salt Lake meet Los Angeles Galaxy in the Major League Soccer (Regular Season - 34). Kick-off is Sunday, 8 November 2026, 00:00 UTC at America First Field. Referee: Joe Dickerson.
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Sirius · Why these numbers
Real Salt Lake 51% · Draw 22% · Los Angeles Galaxy 27%
Strong home advantage gives Real Salt Lake the edge — Our strength rating has almost nothing between the sides, so Real Salt Lake lead mainly because home sides in Major League Soccer do better than the global norm, helped by Los Angeles Galaxy scoring above their chances lately, a streak that tends to cool. We put the draw at 22%, down from the usual 27% because both teams' recent games average 3.4 goals and because of that finishing streak.
Why Real Salt Lake in front?
Home ground, mostly. Almost nothing between them on our strength rating — 1470 to 1484. Sides this close won 42.5% of 15,673 home games (draw 27.2%, visitors 30.4%). Major League Soccer home sides out-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to away wins (25.8% vs 30.0%). Major League Soccer homes won 49.1% of 5,297 games vs 44.6% across all 108,444 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly. Los Angeles Galaxy scored +0.35 goals per game beyond chance-quality lately — hot streaks like that have cooled off. Visitors running this hot went on to win 27.7% of 1,684 games, vs 27.8% for visitors finishing normally.
Why only 51%?
Because on our strength rating there is nothing in it. Level sides split the rest: the draw at 22% and Los Angeles Galaxy at 27%.
Why is the draw only 22%?
Between sides this level the draw starts at 27.2%. These teams' recent games average 3.4 goals — a high-scoring environment. Games in that environment drew 23.1% of 18,743. The goals environment takes 2.3 points off the draw. The cool-off factor takes 2.3 points off the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Real Salt Lake sit -0.34 goals per game under chance-quality. For home sides we could not receipt a bounce-back — the measured cells sit inside each other's noise bands — so this is noted and scores 0. Los Angeles Galaxy won 3 of the last 6 meetings with Real Salt Lake. The record is 3 wins for Los Angeles Galaxy, 2 draws and 1 win for Real Salt Lake. These were 6 Major League Soccer games played at both grounds between 15 October 2023 and 26 April 2026. Latest meeting: 26 April 2026 — Los Angeles Galaxy 2–1 Real Salt Lake. In 6,111 historical matches between similarly rated teams, visiting sides with the stronger head-to-head record won 28.2%. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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