Major League Soccer · Matchday 34 
Our pick Home win Correct result
Real Salt Lake and LA Galaxy separated by two points in Western Conference
Only two points separate Real Salt Lake and Los Angeles Galaxy with one league match left for each. Salt Lake’s strong home record meets a Galaxy side unbeaten in four.
📍 Rio Tinto Stadium
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Match report
Final result: Real Salt Lake 2-1 Los Angeles Galaxy.
Match statistics (home team first). Shots: 20–13; Shots on target: 9–0; Corners: 6–9; Expected goals: 2.92–0.96.
Goals
- 10' Sergi Solans · Noel Caliskan · Real Salt Lake
- 13' Chadwick Zachary Booth · Real Salt Lake
- 40' Luc De Fougerolles (o.g.) · Los Angeles Galaxy
Cards
- 16' Kobi Henry · Real Salt Lake
- 45+3' Juan Sanabria · Real Salt Lake
- 55' Luc De Fougerolles · Real Salt Lake
- 77' Sergi Solans · Real Salt Lake
- 87' Carlos Emiro Garces Torres · Los Angeles Galaxy
Match stats
⭐ Top-rated player: S. Solans (Real Salt Lake) 8.2
Ratings and statistics: API-Football.
Confirmed lineups
Real Salt Lake · 3-4-3
- 1Rafael CabralG
- 44L. De FougerollesD
- 26P. QuintonD
- 3K. HenryD
- 23Chadwick Zachary BoothM
- 6S. SpieringsM
- 92N. CaliskanM
- 8J. SanabriaM
- 12S. LobzhanidzeF
- 22S. SolansF
- 9M. GuilavoguiF
Coach: P. Mastroeni
Los Angeles Galaxy · 4-2-3-1
- 12J. MarcinkowskiG
- 26Harbor MillerD
- 25C. GarcésD
- 15J. HaakD
- 14J. NelsonD
- 6Sergi RobertoM
- 17P. RuizM
- 28J. PaintsilM
- 18M. ReusM
- 11H. LozanoM
- 99KlaussF
Coach: Greg Vanney
Match facts
Recent form
Last 5 league games, latest on the right
Goals per game
| · | Scored | Conceded |
|---|---|---|
| Real Salt Lake | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Los Angeles Galaxy | 1.5 | 1.7 |
League position
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Los Angeles Galaxy | 33 | -6 | 44 |
| 11 | Real Salt Lake | 33 | 0 | 42 |
Last meetings
- 2026 Los Angeles Galaxy 2-1 Real Salt Lake
- 2026 Los Angeles Galaxy 3-3 Real Salt Lake
- 2025 Los Angeles Galaxy 2-0 Real Salt Lake
- 2025 Real Salt Lake 2-0 Los Angeles Galaxy
- 2024 Real Salt Lake 0-1 Los Angeles Galaxy
PreviaXI model
Model confidence: Medium
- Expected goals (model)
- 1.89 – 1.27
- Double chance
- 12 · 77%1X 75% · X2 48%
- Over 2.5 goals
- 61%Over 1.5: 83% · Over 3.5: 39%
- Both teams score
- 61%
- Clean sheet
- 28% – 15%Real Salt Lake–Los Angeles Galaxy
- Half-time result
- 1 · 40%X 38% · 2 22%
- Half-time / full-time
- 1/1 · 32%X/1 16% · 2/2 14%
- Expected corners
- 10.05.1 – 4.9 · Over 9.5: 54%
- Expected cards
- 4.82.5 – 2.3 · Over 3.5: 70%
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG), results and match statistics from the last two seasons. For information only. How our model works →
Two points, four places
With both teams having played 33 matches, Los Angeles Galaxy sit seventh in the Western Conference on 44 points, four places and two points above 11th-placed Real Salt Lake. The final league match gives Salt Lake a chance to close that narrow gap, while the Galaxy arrive with a modest cushion in a close standings picture.
Salt Lake’s home form offers a clear reason for confidence: nine wins, three draws and four defeats in 16 home league games. The Galaxy have found away matches harder, winning four, drawing five and losing seven of their 16 on the road.
Recent results point both ways
Real Salt Lake’s latest league match ended in defeat, but their broader run is stronger: three wins, a draw and a loss across their last five, with 10 goals scored and five conceded. They have scored 51 and conceded 51 across the campaign.
The Galaxy won their most recent league match and are unbeaten in four. Their last five have brought two wins, two draws and a defeat, with 12 goals scored and 11 conceded. Their overall record is evenly balanced at 11 wins, 11 draws and 11 defeats, though they have conceded 55 goals.
A recent edge for the Galaxy
Los Angeles Galaxy have won three of the last five meetings, with Real Salt Lake winning once and one match drawn. The latest league encounter, in April, finished 2-1 to the Galaxy. Three of those five meetings featured no more than two goals.
Home resilience against away pressure
Salt Lake’s 31 goals scored and 21 conceded at home underline the strength of their record in Sandy. By contrast, the Galaxy have scored 23 and conceded 34 in 16 away league matches, and kept one clean sheet on the road. That contrast gives the hosts a platform, though the visitors’ current unbeaten run makes them a difficult opponent to dismiss.
Our prediction
Salt Lake’s home results give them the edge in a meeting between two sides separated by only two points. PreviaXI’s model also favours the hosts, with both teams’ recent scoring records pointing toward chances at either end.
Real Salt Lake 2-1 Los Angeles Galaxy
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