While high-flying St Louis City boast the best offensive record in the West, Real Salt Lake possess the worst defensive record, so we expect the conference leaders to return to winning ways with a high-scoring victory on home soil.
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a St Louis City win with a probability of 41.41%. A win for Real Salt Lake had a probability of 34.18% and a draw had a probability of 24.4%.
The most likely scoreline for a St Louis City win was 2-1 with a probability of 8.84%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-0 (8.11%) and 2-0 (6.33%). The likeliest Real Salt Lake win was 1-2 (7.91%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (11.33%). The actual scoreline of 1-3 was predicted with a 3.7% likelihood.